Caringo Announces FileFly for Swarm

Caringo, Inc. introduced FileFly for Swarm, a solution to combine the performance of NetApp, Inc. and Windows file servers with the limitless scale and HA of company’s Swarm software-defined storage-all without changing the way applications and users work.

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FileFly optimizes filers by transparently moving less-frequently accessed files to Swarm, streamlining backup and recovery, and consolidating all of an organization’s data. Once on Swarm, files are secure and accessible from an object storage platform that can scale to hundreds of petabytes and beyond using any mix of commodity hardware. This results in over a 400% reduction in TCO when compared to scale-up storage solutions.

“One of the biggest management headaches we face is that our employees store all of the data they create on expensive primary storage-they never delete any files,” said Martin Kühn, service manager, IT, Max Planck Institute. “With FileFly, we set policies that move data based on user access patterns to more cost-effective storage while still providing instant access to a user’s files.“

“FileFly preserves and optimizes an organization’s investment in their primary storage assets while creating a transparent bridge to the benefits of object storage,” said Scott Sinclair, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. “Caringo is addressing the primary issues to adoption of object storage, while at the same time addressing the storage silo and cost issues inherent with the use of filers.”

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FileFly features include:

Search capabilities based on source file name, folder path, MIME type, attachment content disposition, date creation and modification, attributes, owner name and/or source host
AES-256 bit data encryption of file data in flight and at rest
Flexible access over HTTP, the Amazon S3 API, standard storage protocols or through Caringo ISV partner applications

“The file and object worlds have collided. File is here to stay for the foreseeable future, but software-defined object storage is the new foundation for the ever-growing pool of accumulating data,” said Jonathan Ring, CEO and founder, Caringo. “FileFly provides the necessary capabilities to truly bridge the file and object worlds.”

For more on FileFly, read Ring’s blog: To File or Not to File-That is the Question