<img width="480" height="270" src="https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hardware-selection-object-storage.png?fit=480%2C270&ssl=1" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="">While the magic lies in the innovative Caringo Swarm Object Storage software platform, choosing the right hardware to run object storage on can profoundly impact critical aspects such as:
–Performance 
–Scale 
–Manageability
Learn about best practices for hardware selection and how to size your object storage solution to match your specific requirements. In this Tech Tuesday webinar, Sr. Consultant John Bell shares his experience gleaned from numerous object storage implementations in small, medium and large organizations.

Learn best practices for hardware selection and how to size your object storage solution to match your specific requirements in this webinar.

Zach Gover

Caringo Swarm Object Storage can run on any x86 server. We also offer a Swarm Single Server for those who want a complete solution out of the box. 

Hardware

Object storage (object-based storage) is computer data storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to file storage & block storage.

Object Storage

Swarm Storage provides a complete S3-compliant platform for data protection, management, organization & search at massive scale for unstructured data.

Swarm Storage

Hardware Selection for Object Storage

<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Single-Server-Image-3.png?resize=300%2C216&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="216" class="size-medium wp-image-12339 alignright" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Single-Server-Image-3.png?resize=300%2C216&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Single-Server-Image-3.png?w=700&ssl=1 700w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-recalc-dims="1" />Today is a landmark day for Caringo, as we launch updates to our entire product suite. Our Swarm 10 Platform is the culmination of over a decade of market hardening and continuous innovation to satisfy customers who are driven by on-demand, distributed workflows. It leverages Swarm’s unique pure-object approach to deliver unrivaled performance at petabyte scale. Before we get into the details of today’s launch, let’s talk about what I mean by “pure-object.” 
What is Swarm’s Pure-Object Architecture?
Caringo Swarm has always used a purpose-built storage design that efficiently utilizes standard disks without expensive caching layers, RAID controllers or layers of software. Swarm object storage software is a parallel architecture that boots from bare metal and runs completely in RAM. Swarm is native object storage, meaning each object’s metadata is encapsulated with that object’s data as a single entity. This means that no separate SQL databases or filesystems are required to track objects. With Swarm, objects are completely portable. 
This approach extracts every bit of value from standard drives, servers and network infrastructures. It is at the core of our design and our key to delivering industry-leading S3 throughput with sustained PB-scale NFS read/write. Caringo SwarmNFS delivers a high-performance translation from file to object that uses patent-pending features in Swarm which eliminate the use of a spooler in the middle. Spoolers are expensive, put your data at risk, cause performance degradation, and get crushed under sustained ingest work loads.
Why the Updates?
Many content-driven organizations prefer to store data on premises to reduce security risks and copyright infringements. They need to cost-effectively scale to petabytes with distributed ingest and they need data to reside close to access points and applications. We are giving large organizations even more of what they already love about Caringo—performance, streamlined management and granular data insight. 
At the same time, we are launching a new single-server appliance for smaller organizations giving them a much lower cost of entry to the most-scalable, on-prem, object-storage solution. This appliance will be valuable for a number of use cases, particularly for Media & Entertainment (M&E) organizations such as post-production houses, studios, broadcasters.
What’s New?
Highlights from our latest release include:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/swarm-overview/">Swarm 10</a> object storage has been optimized for dense, distributed environments, including an update to Elasticsearch 5. In a recent deployment, Swarm delivered an astounding 35 GB/s read and 12.5 GB/s write aggregate S3 throughput, the object storage industry’s fastest performance.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/single-server/">New Swarm Single Server</a> reduces entry-level hardware requirements by 75%. Swarm Single Server is a fully self-contained appliance that provides all the features of Swarm with 96 TB of raw storage that can be racked or fit under a desk.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/swarmnfs/">SwarmNFS 2.1</a> delivers parallel, petabyte-scale sustained streaming of NFS to object. In recent tests on standard hardware, a single instance of SwarmNFS sustained reads of 1.6 GB/s (3PB+ per month) with no caching or spooling. SwarmNFS also leverages Swarm’s parallel architecture so that multiple instances can be deployed as needed to further improve throughput.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/filefly/">FileFly 3.0</a> now supports AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, providing file tiering from Windows and NetApp. In addition, a new, full-featured FileFly Community Edition is available that includes 25 TB of useable data transfer to any target.</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/swarm-10-storage-demand-distributed-world/">Join me at 11am PT/1pm ET tomorrow for our webinar</a>: Swarm 10—Storage for the On-Demand, Distributed World. Our VP of Marketing Adrian “AJ” Herrera and I will talk about what is new in Swarm 10 and detail how we have evolved our product line to set a new standard for on-premises object storage.
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Our CEO Tony Barbagallo talks about today’s landmark launch and explains Caringo's “pure-object” approach behind our astounding 35 GB/s read and 12.5 GB/s write aggregate S3 throughput, the object storage industry’s fastest performance.

Throughout his 30-year career, Tony Barbagallo has leveraged his extensive experience to establish and grow hardware, software and service organizations. He has held a mix of leadership roles at small and large companies, including VP of Marketing and Product Management at Skyera, WildPackets (now Savvius), and EVault, VP of Marketing and Sales at Dantz (acquired by EMC), and senior management positions at Microsoft, Mentor Graphics, Sun, and GE. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Syracuse University and has also completed the Stanford University Executive Program.

Tony Barbagallo

Object-based storage (e.g., Amazon S3-compliant Caringo Swarm Object Storage) is the basis for all Cloud Storage⏤private, public or hybrid).

Cloud Storage

Caringo FileFly provides complete, automated lifecycle management for unstructured data—from creation to preservation, on premises and in the cloud.

FileFly

HPC data sets are exploding. Swarm Object Storage streamlines data management/access & reduces storage TCO up to 75% with continuous data protection.

High Performance Computing

NFS is a distributed network file system protocol. Caringo SwarmNFS lightweight file protocol converter seamlessly integrates files & object storage.

NFSv4 is a distributed network file system protocol. Caringo SwarmNFS file protocol converter seamlessly integrates files & object storage.

NFSv4

Caringo Swarm Single Server is a complete, S3-compliant Object Storage solution—perfect for small- to medium-sized content-driven organizations. 

Single Server Appliance

Software-defined storage (SDS) is data storage software for policy-based provisioning and management of data, independent of underlying hardware. 

Software Defined Storage

Caringo® SwarmNFS lightweight file protocol converter brings S3-compliant object storage benefits to NFS & SMB, seamlessly integrating file & object.

SwarmNFS

Swarm 10 Object Storage for the On-Demand, Distributed World

<a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/hardware-selection-criteria-object-storage/hardware-selection-criteria-object-storage" rel="attachment wp-att-10908"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/hardware-selection-criteria-object-storage.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1" alt="Hardware Selection Criteria for Object Storage" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-10908" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/hardware-selection-criteria-object-storage.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/hardware-selection-criteria-object-storage.jpg?w=445&ssl=1 445w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a>Thinking about implementing object storage in your infrastructure and not sure what hardware you need? With information and tips curated from hundreds of installations, Caringo object storage experts explain the criteria you should consider as you make your selections.

Caringo Tech Tuesday webinars offer insight into Object Storage technology and how Swarm works, plus gives you access to our storage SMEs.

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