Start-Ups Caringo and RainStor in Partnership

Caringo, Inc. and RainStor, Inc. announced a partnership to provide a solution for retaining and accessing structured data in Caringo object storage software powered by CAStor.

The combination allows users to store increasing volumes of structured and semi-structured data from databases, logs and other machine-generated data sources along with unstructured content such as audio, documents, e-mails, images, and videos in CAStor.

The combined solution provides a horizontal platform that enterprises can use to increase efficiency and reduce the cost of their infrastructure required to retain and manage data. ISVs and service providers can use Caringo and RainStor to offer data retention services at higher margins, including those delivered via the cloud. The solution is for use cases where database data must be stored with file-based data for long periods of time such as in financial services, communications, healthcare and life science industries. For example a healthcare organization can now store their patient medical images as well as patient documents and structured database medical records for years or decades in CAStor.

RainStor’s Big Data Management database contains patented compression and de-duplication techniques, reducing the data footprint size by 95% or more compared to traditional approaches. Unlike other forms of binary compression, data retained in RainStor can be stored and queried on-demand at a granular level via SQL or standard business intelligence tools without the need for re-hydration. Certified integration with CAStor makes RainStor a database that can store and access structured data within an object storage platform for compliance and business analysis.

Caringo CAStor provides Big Data storage utilizing any combination of x86 hardware at up to 98% disk utilization. With integrated automated optimization, data protection and zero-provision expansion, one system administrator can manage over 10 PB of storage.

"RainStor enables enterprises to keep and query as much data as they want, for as long as they want," said RainStor CEO John Bantleman. "RainStor’s certified integration with CAStor is a unique and powerful combination that can retain all types of data at scale. Our common philosophy of being storage hardware agnostic and seeking simplicity of administration, results in the lowest total cost of ownership of keeping Big Data."

"In order to continue to extract value from Big Data it must be accessible and stored in a system that can scale massively and economically, as fast as data is generated," said Mark Goros, Caringo CEO. "Our partnership with RainStor provides these benefits taking accessibility one step further by offering the ability to query both structured and unstructured data in long-term storage. This means that data will remain actionable as long as organizations need it to be, which provides undeniable value."