The pressure for service providers and telecom companies to introduce new managed services has never been greater. New competitors from different markets now have the ability to poach subscribers by quickly standing up services based on open source software. In addition the relentless growth of operational and customer data is exposing capacity limitations in existing storage infrastructure and quickly depleting budgets. Caringo object storage software addresses these issues by enabling massively scalable and highly automated storage solutions that can easily integrate into your existing internal and external service offerings.
Pay as you Grow Scalability and Intelligent Automation
Our object storage software, powered by CAStor, was designed from the ground up to provide massive scalability. To achieve this we removed the inefficiencies of traditional file systems and also developed intelligent automation in system management and expansion. The result is plug-and-play scale for both capacity and performance that enables you to stop managing infrastructure and start focusing on providing service to your employees and subscribers.
- 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.
- Runs on industry standard hardware — Storage clusters can be built on any X86 server with at least 1 GB of RAM, 1 hard drive, and Gigabit Ethernet on up to the most dense servers available today. Use any combination of vendors and generations. As new technology becomes available, just plug the server in and CAStor will instantly provision it!
- Self-optimizing — Even after an object is initially stored CAStor continuously monitors performance and will automatically move or replicate data in order to maintain responsiveness in the system.
- Self-healing clusters — Polices set for each object are continuously checked and enforced. Should something fail, the system automatically recovers. If a disk goes down, all disks participate in the recovery effort.
- SNMP and NTP support — Leverage an existing systems management platform to manage/administer the cluster as another element in the network. In addition, support external network clock synchronization to ensure accurate time stamping of content stored in and events/activities within the storage environment using standard, open time server infrastructure.
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.
