Remote Synchronous Write: In the Content UI, specific domains and buckets can now be configured to broadcast new content to all remote sites immediately. This feature, Remote Synchronous Write, delays write completion until replicas exist in every remote cluster. This setting allows supporting applications that require guarantees that backups are committed to every site, and to support publishing requirements to be able to read new content from any remote site immediately after ingest.
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Folder Listing UI: With Gateway 7, folder listing support across Swarm clients (Content UI, SwarmFS, and S3) is rearchitected and centralized. Folder listing is what renders the virtual folders (prefixes) on named Swarm objects (such as FY2019/Q3/object.jpg) into familiar folders on the users' file systems. The service leverages newer Elasticsearch features and is not bound by ES listing limits.
The Content UI now presents these folders as walkable directories, with these key benefits:
Prefix Filtering: By parsing object prefixes into hierarchical folders in real time, the Content UI provides users a fast and intuitive way to view and manage content in a bucket, automatically.
Empty Folders: The Content UI allows creation and persistence of new, empty folders that are ready to receive files. This allows planning and setting up organizing structures ahead of time, to guide content uploaders to use the organization. A content architecture can be enforced to avoid the risk users perform bulk uploads using a malformed prefix by having them upload directly to folders.
Recursive Deletes: The Content UI allows deleting virtual folders, which recursively deletes all objects and subfolders they contain.
Single Sign-On Across UIs: SAML 2.0 support in Content Gateway facilitates implementing single sign-on for users. Adding SSO allows granting access to the Storage and Content UIs using centrally managed identity credentials, such as the organization's Gmail accounts.
S3 Backup to AWS Glacier: S3 Backup feeds can now be implemented to back up to and restore from archival ("cold") storage. The cost-effectiveness of the disaster recovery solution can be maximized by backing up Swarm to an S3 bucket with a storage class such as Glacier.