Design and implementation of private cloud storage platform based on OpenStack

With the rapid growth of the internal volume of enterprise data, it causes many problems in terms of storage, such as the lack of adequate hardware storage devices, high maintenance costs, and incomplete storage environment and so on. Cloud Computing technology can provide customers with the corresponding demand services that can effectively address these issues. Swift framework in OpenStack Cloud Computing platform provides an object storage solution could create redundant copies. It has the advantages of high data persistence, completely symmetrical system architecture, and unlimited scalability, no single point of failure, simple and based on reliable components. Thus, it is a feasible way to realize cloud storage. Therefore, a private cloud storage platform has been designed and implemented based on Swift framework in this paper, and Python framework Django was adopted to build up the website system to complete the tasks of creation, upload and download of enterprise data files through Web-based method to prove system's feasibility.