Caringo Swarm is a pure software Object Storage product. It runs on any x86 servers and has no file system or the overhead associated with file systems. Our true object model combines system, user and lifepoint metadata plus data into one object. No separate metadata database, no single points of failure. Swarm is a massively symmetric architecture where every node runs the same code and can execute every function. No special purpose nodes, no bottlenecks. Designed for scale out storage, self balancing, self healing, seamlessly scalable with automatic power savings with patented Darkive.