Union Solutions Chooses Caringo Object Storage

Caringo Inc. announced that
Union Solutions, in virtualized data center infrastructures, has
selected the Caringo Object Storage cloud platform powered by CAStor, to serve
as the backend infrastructure of its new cloud storage service, StorPoint,
targeted at customers looking for enterprise content storage and data
protection.

Union
Solutions is leveraging the processing, storage and backup infrastructure at
their data centers in Maidstone, Kent and Byfleet, Surrey to provide a
scalable and secure cloud storage service. Optional data replication between
the two sites and transfer via HTTPS are supported for increased data
protection. The service can be accessed in one of three ways – through an HTTP
interface, through standard storage protocols via Caringo’s Content File Server
(CIFS, NFS, FTP and WebDAV), and through any of third party
applications that have natively integrated Caringo object storage such as
Symantec Enterprise Vault and CommVault Simpana.

Union
evaluated various cloud storage solutions and chose the Caringo object storage
platform because of its software-only approach, allowing configuration as a
public cloud storage service, a hybrid cloud storage solution with integrated
gateway, and/or a secure private cloud storage solution that can be located in
a customer’s datacenter. In addition, the Caringo platform is built on an
object storage foundation, without a file system, enabling massive scale of
both object count and storage capacity per location without degradation in
performance.

"We chose Caringo to enable our cloud storage
service because their software helps us achieve our vision of a completely
virtualized, totally dynamic data center," said Rick Russ, Director of
Union Solutions. "Caringo’s highly
automated approach significantly reduces our management effort. We look forward
to strengthening our partnership with them."

"There are many storage technologies that can
be used as the infrastructure behind a cloud storage service but only object
storage provides the ease of management, performance, integrity and scale
necessary," said Mark Goros, CEO at Caringo. "Union Solutions understood this because they
are experts in virtualization and automation which are key enablers of our
platform. We are very excited to have them as both a customer and a partner."