What are you looking for ?
Infinidat
Articles_top

NAB: Caringo Swarm 9.5

Closing gap between file and object storage

Caringo, Inc. announced performance and interoperability enhancements to Swarm Scale-Out Hybrid Storage and SwarmNFS.

As a pioneer in on-premises object storage technology, Caringo launched their masthead product, Swarm, in 2006. Fieldhardened at version 9.5, it serves as the foundation for massively scalable storage solutions that span use cases from media and entertainment, HPC, IoT, government, medical, research, education, cloud storage and enterprise IT.

Released in 2016, SwarmNFS was a lightweight file protocol converter to bring the benefits of scale-out object storage-including built-in data protection, HA, and powerful metadata to NFSv4.

Unlike cumbersome file gateways and file connectors, SwarmNFS is a stateless Linux process that integrates directly with Swarm – allowing mount points to be accessed across campus, across country or across the world.

The patent-pending technology delivers a global namespace across NFSv4, S3, HDFS, and SCSP/HTTP, delivering data distribution and data management at scale without the high cost and complexity of legacy solutions.

SwarmNFS 2.0 leverages a new patent-pending feature in Swarm 9.5 that allows a client to only send the data of an object that has changed.

Swarm then combines the changes with the existing object data, dynamically reducing the bandwidth requirements and the time taken for a client to update existing objects. Before that, a client had to re-upload all the data bytes in an object, even if only a small change was required. The ability to only send a few bytes of modified data when updating a large object is both an object storage industry first and a game changer which dynamically closes the gap between file and object, and has improved overall NFS performance up to 20x for concurrent client access and file operations.

Additional highlights of Swarm 9.5 include:
• Ability to directly edit object metadata through the user interface. This complements the long-standing feature that has been available to applications.
• Storage transaction metadata filtering for MSPs and other direct-to-Internet deployments to manage bandwidth
and information flow.
• Hybrid Cloud tiering capabilities have been enhanced for improved support of Swarm Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure.

We have made significant enhancements to Swarm and SwarmNFS to bridge the gap between existing file-based applications and object storage in response to customer requests and an evolving data landscape that needs a cohesive, scalable, intelligent storage strategy,” said Tony Barbagallo, Caringo VP of product. “These releases deliver on our commitment to develop technology innovations that help our customers manage the unbridled growth of unstructured data and rapidly evolving access requirements.”

Caringo will be exhibiting at the JB&A pre-NAB Technology event April 8-9, 2018 as well as NAB Show Expo in Las Vegas, NV, April 9-12, 2018.

Real also:
Virtual Drive for Swarm Scale-Out Hybrid Storage From Caringo
Speeds content uploads and provides simple drive-based access to Swarm from applications.
2017.11.16 | Press Release
Caringo: Swarm Integration With Reach Engine From Levels Beyond
Powers new era of content creation and curation, while future-proofing digital asset workflow storage and access for rapidly scaling asset libraries.
2017.10.26 | Press Release
Caringo Swarm Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure
To replicate files from S3, NFS, and HDFS to Azure in Azure native Blob format
2017.10.03 | Press Release

Articles_bottom
AIC
ATTO
OPEN-E