Rackspace, a leading managed cloud company, presents a technical whitepaper detailing their innovative approach to enhancing OpenStack Swift Object Storage performance. This document addresses common challenges faced in hyper-scale and private cloud environments, such as inconsistent response times and inefficient replication processes, which can hinder OpenStack Swift's reliability and scalability. Rackspace developed internal enhancements, leveraging their "Hummingbird" approach, to overcome these limitations. The paper highlights how their unique solution delivers compelling benefits, including simple implementation, easy operation in mixed configurations, and significantly increased consistency and reliability. Despite the OpenStack Technical Committee's stance on alternative programmi

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