In this talk we shortly introduce potentials and shortcomings of Swift when using it with high-latency storage, such as tape, optical disk or MAID based archival storage. Then we explain how we think those shortcomings should be overcome, and share the most relevant technical aspects and experience from our initial experiments with tape on doing so. Customized data collocation, an API for ILM between fast-access and high-latency storage and data auditing aspects are covered.