QSAN KubeSwift

KubeSwift is unlike anything else in the QSAN range — or in most storage vendors' portfolios, for that matter. It's a purpose-built rackmount container server designed to operate as a dedicated compute/storage node for containerised applications. If your DevOps team is running Kubernetes or Docker and storage I/O is the bottleneck in your CI/CD pipeline, this is the appliance that fixes it.

Using NVMe flash storage with a standard Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, KubeSwift plugs directly into your container orchestration platform and eliminates the storage-related bottlenecks that plague large-scale image builds. QSAN claims up to 83x faster build times — and while your mileage will vary, the dedicated flash architecture genuinely removes the shared-storage contention that slows down traditional SAN-mapped Kubernetes deployments.

This is a specialised product for a specific use case: agile microservices deployment, continuous testing and deployment (CI/CD), and DevOps teams that are serious about build performance. Unlike Dell or NetApp, which bolt Kubernetes support onto existing SAN/NAS arrays via plugins, KubeSwift is purpose-built for container orchestration from the ground up.