IT Departments and Service providers have been tasked with developing robust storage services in a cost effective manner that are easy to manage, easy to scale and most importantly maintain the security and integrity of their or their customers' data. There are various cloud storage software packages that solve part of the problem by consolidating infrastructure but only Caringo offers secure and intelligent cloud storage solutions that are easy to install, easy to manage, and can be configured as private, hybrid, or public cloud storage offerings.
Massive Scalability and Ease of Management
We designed the Caringo platform from the ground up to enable you to manage billions of objects and petabytes of content all accessible via HTTP. You can use any mix of x86 server hardware, any size hard drive and even any type of storage connectivity which means you have ultimate flexibility and can take advantage of advancement in hard drive capacity and server power consumption. In addition there are none of the limitations of a file system and your Caringo cloud storage solution will remain responsive regardless of the number of objects or file size small (< 4KB) or large ( >4 TB).
- Secure multi-tenant architecture — Subdivide Caringo CAStor into separate domains for multiple departments, division or customers while maintaining full control over data access and data security.
- Massively scale capacity – meet any demand — Scale by simply inserting one, or more nodes into the cluster. Additional capacity is automatically available; no provisioning required by an administrator. Minimal administrative overhead makes it easy to increase storage up to petabytes of capacity in a single cluster.
- Open RESTful HTTP interface — Applications and devices interface to CAStor using industry standard HTTP 1.1. This enables quick development and the ability to utilize existing HTTP client libraries in use throughout the industry.
- Secure authentication and authorization — Specify content access on a specific bucket, domain or even to the object level. Authorization is specified in the metadata and can control access and processing by any method on any object.
- Dynamic caching — CDN-like demand based dynamic caching places replicas of content in memory. When demand is high, caching spreads throughout your CAStor cluster. As demand subsides the file replicas are removed from memory.
- No service downtime — Seamlessly upgrade and retire hardware by adding new server nodes to the cluster then simply retire the old server and remove from the cluster. Upgrade hardware technology at your own pace and leverage the price performance curve of new technology as soon as it becomes available.
Mobile telecom service provider leverages CAStor software in their cloud-based SaaS solution.
Vodafone is using CAStor software as cloud storage for storing online mobile content for their global web and mobile services. Caringo's CAStor provides a cloud storage repository to their media management platform, Vodafone 360. CAStor stores mobile phone, laptop and PCs rich media content for Vodafone's customers worldwide.
The Challenge
- Provide 24x7x365 high speed access to rich media content in the cloud
- Zero downtime objective through upgrades and maintenance
- High availability and disaster recovery requirement across multiple locations
- Address high security needs for cloud computing applications
- Deliver enterprise class cloud services worldwide
The Solution
- CAStor installation of a unified storage tier and web server tier architecture
- CAStor backend storage cluster driving cloud solutions
- Purpose built object store with HP ProLiant servers running CAStor
- Implemented advanced security applications integrated to a CAStor object storage cloud
- Hot code load upgrades to new releases for continuous availability
The Results
- Unified cloud storage architecture superior to NAS and SAN alternatives
- Global mobile and web access solution scalable to 340 million Vodafone customers
- Massively scalable configuration for performance and capacity expansion
- Continuous availability and zero downtime for 3 years running
The Configuration
- Global web and mobile service customers access their image libraries through Vodafone's web application
- Vodafone's web application interfaces directly to a CAStor backend storage cluster.
