Caringo Brings Object Storage to Apache CloudStack

Caringo, Inc. announced integration of its core technology, CAStor, as an enterprise object store for Apache CloudStack 4.0, a project currently undergoing incubation with the Apache Software Foundation.

The integration brings CAStor’s ability to provide secure, multi-tenant storage that scales from TB to PB with customizable level of 9s data durability without backups or RAID.

The integration has been submitted to the Apache Software Foundation as part of the Apache CloudStack 4.0 release and is available for immediate download.

Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack, provides a robust open source software platform for scalable and reliable cloud computing environments and is currently deployed in some of the world’s largest enterprises.

The addition of Caringo object storage powered by CAStor
enables these organizations to benefit from:

• Data durability without backups and RAID through Elastic Content protection that enables the ability to set the level of 9s per object and optimize for access or footprint.
• More than ‘simple’ storage, providing customizable metadata, WORM and auditable per-file authenticity enabling granular control and compliance use cases.
• Performance regardless of file size, number of files or capacity, enabled by CAStor’s efficient symmetric architecture that is market proven and field hardened over the last six years and in use by over 500 customers.
• Content portability, through CAStor’s universally non-hash based id that stores metadata with the content for content mobility with the ability to evolve server and storage hardware for decades to come, while maintaining the integrity of information.

"When architecting a complete cloud solution, object storage is critical," said Kevin Kluge, VP of products at Citrix Systems, Inc. "Object storage combines elements of web serving and traditional storage in a highly scalable solution that can quickly recover from any failure, making it ideal as the main storage target for unstructured data stored by Apache CloudStack. We are pleased that Caringo has submitted its CloudStack integration to the Apache Software Foundation as it gives all Apache CloudStack users open access to one of the most robust and scalable object storage engines on the market."

The combined solution provides a complete cloud service, including compute and storage, secure within a user’s data center for private use or to offer as a public service. The use of CAStor as the main content store also includes servicing with no downtime and zero provisioning for real-time expansion and 7×24 operations making ‘just-in-time’ delivery of storage-as-a-service possible while maintaining performance and QoS.

"Content storage results in the largest data center footprint in any cloud service which is why administrators need to think about how they will refresh their hardware over time in addition to scalability," said Mark Goros, CEO of Caringo. "What our software does is decouple content from hardware, solving scale and hardware obsolescence issues while providing the ability to optimize storage infrastructure for footprint or access based upon the required level of 9s data durability. We are pleased to bring our software to CloudStack users and are committed to continuing to fulfill our mutual customers’ most pressing storage needs."

The integration is available for download from the Apache Software Foundation under an ASL license. In addition, for a limited time, Caringo is offering a free, full featured 12TB license (you need to register) for CAStor so that organizations can experience the benefits or using the object storage engine with CloudStack 4.0.