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

Zach Gover

Caringo revolutionized data storage and changed the economics of storage in 2006 by launching the first Object Storage product in the marketplace. 

Data Storage

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

Scale-out storage allows for expansion of data capacity through addition of devices that can be plugged in and configured as the need arises. 

Scale-Out Storage

As you define your storage strategy, what are the required characteristics for each tier of your storage and what variables affect each storage tier?

Security

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

Single Server Appliance (SSA)

Swarm Server Appliances contain all the hardware and software you need to keep content protected, online, searchable and web-accessible—secure within your network. With the industry’s most flexible object storage deployment options, Swarm Appliances let you start with just one server and scale out at any time based on your business requirements.

Swarm Servers

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

Swarm Storage

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

Tech Tuesday

What Hardware is Best for Object Storage?

Jason Dachman, SVG Chief Editor, interviews Adrian J Herrera, our VP Marketing. They discuss Caringo’s release of the new Swarm Server Appliance Line and how our Object Storage enables organizations of all sizes that need to archive and access video assets.

Check out Caringo's release of the new Swarm Server Appliance Line and how our Object Storage enables organizations of all sizes

Founded in 2005, Caringo pioneered Object-Based Storage technology--forever changing the economics of storage with CAStor (now known as Swarm).

Caringo History

Caringo Storage Appliances Interview with SVG: SportsTech On Demand

An archive is a place where some form of information is preserved or kept. Throughout history, archive locations and media have taken many forms—from crude images painted on the sides of caves to rows of leather-bound books, all the way up to digital archives.
<h2>The Challenge of Traditional Data Archives</h2>
Traditional digital archives still present challenges. For years, they have been an expensive, necessary evil that people avoided touching like the plague because recovering anything (usually from tape) is painful and labor-intensive. So much so that restoring or retrieving data is generally only done in emergencies. However, that’s starting to change as improving disk density and the rising economic value of assets makes object storage a viable competitor to tape storage.
<h2>Benefits of Using S3-Compliant Object Storage for Archive</h2>
The primary benefit of using object-based storage solutions is greatly improving the usefulness of the archive, which in turn drives continual monetization of your digital assets. S3 protocol access gives you the ability to easily access content from nearly any software, and our web portal makes finding and retrieving data easy. This allows you to maintain the cost-effectiveness of a storage archive without giving up the ability to readily use your assets.
With <a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/tech-tuesday-using-metadata-object-storage">metadata annotation</a> providing you with the ability to easily locate an archived project you need and near-instant access to the project media itself, there are no impediments to deriving value out of all that data. Couple this with partial file restore (the <a href="https://www.caringo.com/products/swarm/partial-file-restore">ability to retrieve specific portions of a video file directly from the archive</a>) and suddenly you can breathe new life and business value into all that archived data (and the work that went into creating that asset or gathering that data).
<h2>Take Control of Archived Content</h2>
Object storage puts you in control of your archived content, giving you the ability to make sensible business trade-offs on footprint vs durability vs lifecycle, all the way down to the object level. When you consider that there are essentially <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/what-5-tiers-of-storage-for-new-video-production-workflows">5 tiers of storage for video workflows</a>, having an active archive with advanced functionality can increase the usefulness and the opportunity for on-going monetization of archived content. This was the driving force behind <a href="https://www.caringo.com/products/swarm/whats-new">the new features in Swarm 11</a>. We also recently revamped our <a href="https://www.caringo.com/products/swarm/appliances">Swarm Server Appliance line</a> to make deploying object storage as simple as possible.
<h2>The Future of Data Archiving</h2>
The data deluge (and thus the need to store varying types of digital assets and records) shows no signs of letting up as we approach 2020. The storage technology pioneered by Caringo’s founders continues to provide hundreds of customers with a cost-effective solution to their burgeoning data stores.
If you will be at the <a href="https://www.caringo.com/events/caringo-at-svg-summit-dec-16-17">Sports Video Group Summit</a> in New York City December 16, make sure to catch the <a href="http://www.thesvgsummit.com/sports-content-management/">Sports Content Management Workshop</a> session “State of Archiving Technology: What Does the Future Hold for Tape, Drives, Cloud, and the Data Center?” on Monday at 3:30 pm ET. This discussion will be moderated by Tab Butler of the MLB Network and include panelists from SwiftStack, AWS, Spectra Logic, Quantum and Caringo. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:info@caringo.com">info@caringo.com</a> if you would like to set up a time to speak with Caringo CEO and panelist Tony Barbagallo or VP of Sales Ben Canter.

Throughout history, archives have taken many forms. Is an active digital archive built with object storage key to monetizing your data?

TW is a sailor and currently a Coast Guard auxiliary flotilla commander. He has worked in many roles including VP Product Development, VP Professional Services, VP Software Research and President in startups, large companies, and MCC, a technology research consortium. TW holds a BSEE from Rice University and an MSCS from the College of William &amp; Mary.

TW Cook

Caringo uses Amazon S3 protocol for seamless policy-based tiering of data from primary storage to private Swarm cloud to public cloud.

Amazon S3

Caringo Swarm Object Storage provides an active archive (limitless & seamless pool of data) with data protection, management and search capabilities.

Metadata

With Partial File Restore, Caringo Swarm lets you clip large video files for rapid turnaround of a specific portion directly from the archive layer.

Partial File Restore

Caringo Swarm Object Storage v11 accelerates access to video by giving you easy-to-generate URLs for secure internal or external streaming media.

Streaming Media

Monetizing Your Data Archive

<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.
<a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/swarm-10-storage-demand-distributed-world/" title="Register for Caringo Version 10 Webinar" class="btn btn-caringo caringo-lg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">REGISTER NOW </a>

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

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

<img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Running-Object-Storage-1.jpg?w=300&ssl=1" alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-12538" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Running-Object-Storage-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Running-Object-Storage-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1 640w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-recalc-dims="1" />Massive scalability is one thing, but what if you want to run Object-Based Storage for a smaller shop? Can you start with a small hardware investment and run object-based storage on just one server? John Bell, Sr. Consultant, and Jamshid Afshar, Caringo Engineer, explain how you can store, manage, search and deliver data with just one server, while maintaining the ability to scale out by simply plugging in additional servers as your data storage needs grow. Watch now to learn how this “pay-as-you-grow” model can benefit organizations as they start to outgrow traditional SAN, NAS and Tape storage solutions.

What if you want to run Object Storage for a smaller business? Can you run object-based storage on one server? Learn more in our webinar.

Running Object Storage on a Single Server

<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/NAB-Gamble.jpg?resize=300%2C233&ssl=1" alt="NAB, Don't Gamble with Storage" width="300" height="233" class="size-medium wp-image-10950 alignright" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/NAB-Gamble.jpg?resize=300%2C233&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/NAB-Gamble.jpg?resize=768%2C597&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/NAB-Gamble.jpg?resize=1024%2C795&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/NAB-Gamble.jpg?w=2000&ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/NAB-Gamble.jpg?w=3000&ssl=1 3000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-recalc-dims="1" />As we enter count-down mode for the 2019 National Association of Broadcasters Show (<a href="https://www.caringo.com/nab2019">NAB Show</a>) in Las Vegas, I’d like to share a little secret with you. I’m not a gambler. If you <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/nab-vegas-gamble-storage/">read my blog last year,</a> you probably already guessed this. 
<h3 style="margin: 1.75em 0 1em;">Protecting Your Assets: The Stakes Are High</h3>
Just how high are the stakes? No matter your industry, organization or data, you could jeopardize content as well as company earnings and reputation if data is not properly secured and cannot be accessed when needed. When you are storing and working with pre-production video footage, how many hours and dollars did it take to record? That price skyrockets even higher once your master asset has been produced and finalized. 
<h3 style="margin: 1.75em 0 1em;">Optimizing Collaboration and Storage</h3>
When you research storage solutions, are you also considering how your data will be used in creative collaboration processes? Long gone are the days when you could store assets in data storage silos and expect to keep your workflow moving efficiently. At the NAB Show, Media & Entertainment (M&E) IT professionals from Studios, Production Houses, Broadcasters and Service Providers at the NAB Show will once again be looking to <a href="https://www.caringo.com/resources/solution-briefs/me-digital-video/">optimize storage and access at every stage of the digital asset lifecycle</a>—from production to delivery to long-term preservation. 
<h3 style="margin: 1.75em 0 1em;">What’s New at the Caringo Booth This Year?</h3>
<a href="https://www.caringo.com/products/appliances/single-server"><picture class="alignleft wp-image-13615 size-thumbnail sp-no-webp" title="Single Server Appliance with Swarm Object Storage Software Platform UI"><source srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.webp 320w,https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.webp 480w,https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.webp 768w,https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.webp 1366w" sizes="(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px" type="image/webp"><source srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.png?resize=320%2C180&ssl=1 320w, https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.png?resize=480%2C270&ssl=1 480w, https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.png?resize=768%2C432&ssl=1 768w, https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.png?w=1366&ssl=1 1366w" sizes="(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.png?resize=320%2C180&ssl=1" class="alignleft wp-image-13615 size-thumbnail sp-no-webp" title="Single Server Appliance with Swarm Object Storage Software Platform UI" alt="Single Server Appliance with Swarm Object Storage Software Platform UI" height="180" width="320" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.png?resize=320%2C180&ssl=1 320w, https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.png?resize=480%2C270&ssl=1 480w, https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.png?resize=768%2C432&ssl=1 768w, https://i1.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swarm-mgnt-UI-with-single-server.png?w=1366&ssl=1 1366w" sizes="(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px" data-recalc-dims="1"></picture></a>Over the past year, we have remained committed to making certain you can store what you need, ensure media integrity and keep assets online and accessible. Caringo provides S3- and NFS-accessible object storage designed for content access, distribution and archive. It can be purchased as software only and run on any x86 server, or you can now purchase it in an on-prem S3-compatible single <a href="https://www.caringo.com/products/appliances/single-server">Swarm Server Appliance</a>. 
In addition, we will be <a href="https://www.caringo.com/products/filefly">showcasing version 3.0 of our FileFly Data Management Tool</a>, which now enables you to move data from NetApp and Windows Filers to Amazon (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google cloud as well as to Caringo Swarm Object Storage. (Make sure to ask us about the new Free 25TB Community Edition of FileFly.)
<h3 style="margin: 1.75em 0 1em;">What Can I Learn at the Caringo Booth This Year?</h3>
Our expert storage architects and engineers will be on hand to help you understand how Caringo’s object storage technologies can help you conquer <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/enabling-on-demand-in-digital-video-workflows">the challenges of scaling storage in the on-demand world</a>. Our experts can show you:
<ul>
<li>Internal streaming and longtail video-on-demand (VOD) directly from the archive layer that’s lower cost than cloud-based services.</li>
<li>Tape replacement that provides guaranteed content availability with minimal administration.</li>
<li>Geo-dispersed collaboration platform that plugs into your asset manager or can be used as a stand-alone solution.</li>
<li>Single target for multiple data sets on a future-proof platform that delivers unlimited scale.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="margin: 1.75em 0 1em;">Where to Find Caringo</h3>
<a href="https://www.caringo.com/events/jba-pre-nab-technology-event-las-vegas-2019"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Pre-NAB-Graphic_V3.jpg?resize=320%2C167&ssl=1" alt="JB&A Pre-NAB Technology Event Time and Date" width="320" height="167" class="alignright wp-image-13853 size-thumbnail" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Pre-NAB-Graphic_V3.jpg?resize=320%2C167&ssl=1 320w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Pre-NAB-Graphic_V3.jpg?resize=480%2C251&ssl=1 480w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Pre-NAB-Graphic_V3.jpg?resize=768%2C401&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Pre-NAB-Graphic_V3.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a>Coming to Vegas early? Get a preview over beer and pizza Saturday or Sunday at the JB&A Pre-NAB Technology Event. <a href="https://www.caringo.com/events/jba-pre-nab-technology-event-las-vegas-2019">Register now.</a>
Then, stop by our booth at the <a href="https://www.caringo.com/nab2019">NAB Show</a> expo (#SL13310) to learn more. You can also visit <a href="https://www.caringo.com/solutions/caringo-media-entertainment/">https://www.caringo.com/solutions/media-entertainment/</a> or <a href="https://www.caringo.com/contact">contact us</a> to schedule a demo.

Swarm object-based storage is headed back to Las Vegas for the 96th annual NAB Show (you can find us in Booth #SL13310). Get the scoop on what is new, and then make sure to visit us.

Sarah Cook is Caringo's Director of Marketing and brings deep expertise in Product Marketing and Technical/Marketing/Corporate Communications. Sarah has worked for some of the biggest names in technology including Dell and Cisco and holds a B.A. in English Composition with a minor in Music from the University of North Texas. She sings with and serves on the Board of Directors for Panoramic Voices, a 501(c)3 choral collaborative in Austin, TX.

Sarah Cook

Caringo Swarm Object Storage protects digital assets, keeping them online & accessible for production workflows, active archive & on-demand streaming.

Media &amp; Entertainment

Data trapped in SAN, NAS and Tape Storage silos? Move your data into Swarm Object Storage to eliminate storage silos and create an active archive.

Storage Silos

NAB Show 2019: With Object Storage, You Don’t Have to Gamble

Media & Entertainment

<a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars?category_name=tech-tuesday" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="View All Tech Tuesday Webinars"><picture class="alignright wp-image-13109 size-medium sp-no-webp" title="Tech Tuesday Video Webinar Listings"><source srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.webp 300w,https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.webp 150w,https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.webp 768w,https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.webp 1024w,https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.webp 120w,https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.webp 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" type="image/webp"><source srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=768%2C766&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=1024%2C1021&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=120%2C120&ssl=1 120w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1" class="alignright wp-image-13109 size-medium sp-no-webp" title="Tech Tuesday Video Webinar Listings" alt="12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree" height="300" width="300" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=768%2C766&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=1024%2C1021&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?resize=120%2C120&ssl=1 120w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12-Months-TechTuesday-Decorated-Tree.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-recalc-dims="1"></picture></a>This year, we initiated a <a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars?category_name=tech-tuesday" title="View all Tech Tuesday webinars">series of educational webinars</a> for a highly technical audience—by engineers for engineers. The resulting Tech Tuesday series quickly became a cornerstone of the content on our BrightTALK channel, and something we look forward to every month.
<h3>Take a look at the topics we’ve covered this year:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/how-does-object-storage-fit-your-infra/" title="View Video Webinar">How Does Object Storage Fit into Your IT Infrastructure?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/hardware-selection-criteria-object-storage/" title="View Video Webinar">Hardware Selection Criteria for Object Storage</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/capacity-planning-scaling-object-storage/" title="View Video Webinar">Capacity Planning and Scaling for Object Storage</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/best-practices-installation-management/" title="View Video Webinar">Best Practices for Object Storage Installation and Management</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/solving-exabyte-scale-search-beyond/" title="View Video Webinar">Solving Exabyte-Scale Search (and Beyond!)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/when-choose-object-storage-over-nas/" title="View Video Webinar">When to Choose Object Storage over NAS for Digital Video Workflows</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/tech-tuesday-object-storage-hpc/" title="View Video Webinar">Object Storage for HPC</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/tech-tuesday-evaluating-object-storage-solutions" title="View Video Webinar">Evaluating Object Storage Solutions</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/migrating-data-san-nas-tape-object-storage" title="View Video Webinar">Migrating Data from SAN, NAS or Tape to Object Storage</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/running-object-storage-single-server" title="View Video Webinar">Running Object Storage on a Single Server</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/tech-tuesday-using-swarm-object-storage-user-interface" title="View Video Webinar">Using the Swarm Object Storage User Interface</a></li>
</ul>
This last TechTuesday webinar of 2018, we bring you <a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/using-nfs-object-storage">Using NFS with Object Storage</a>. Hosted by John Bell, Sr. Consultant, the webinar will feature Michael “Q” Brame, our Quality Engineering Lead. Protocol compatibility has long been a focus for us at Caringo, and Q, who has been with Caringo since 2006, has seen it all.
In 2016, <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/evolution-file-swarmnfs/" title="Learn more about SwarmNFS">Caringo launched SwarmNFS</a>, the first lightweight file protocol converter to bring the benefits of scale-out object storage to NFSv4, seamlessly integrating files and object storage. Q will demonstrate how SwarmNFS can be used with Swarm, our hassle-free, limitless object storage platform. You can watch live and bring your questions or on demand after the event.
<a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/using-nfs-object-storage" title="View more details about the STFC integration and benchmarking" class="btn btn-caringo caringo-lg" rel="noopener">Watch NFS Object Storage Video </a>

Hear about our 11 Tech Tuesday webinars and make sure to register for our twelfth, Using NFS with Object Storage on December 11.

Network attached storage (NAS) is a high-performance file-level data storage device connected to a computer network that provides data access.

Storage area network (SAN) is a high-performance computer network that provides quick access to consolidated, block-level primary data storage.

Scaling from small to 100s of PBs is one of the hallmarks of the Swarm pure object storage approach and a testament to our longstanding installations.

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The 12 Months of Tech Tuesday Object Storage Webinars

<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Running-Object-Storage.jpg?resize=300%2C162&ssl=1" alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-12399 alignright" width="300" height="162" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Running-Object-Storage.jpg?resize=300%2C162&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Running-Object-Storage.jpg?resize=768%2C416&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Running-Object-Storage.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-recalc-dims="1" />Returning from the NAB Show in New York City, I was thinking of how many times I’ve made the remark that “one size does not fit all.” While usually this is associated with fashion, it is also true of data storage. 
Massive scalability is one thing, but what if you need to start small? This is why Caringo recently launched the new <a href="https://www.caringo.com/single-server/">Swarm Single Server</a>—a complete on-prem S3 solution with built-in content management and delivery in a single server with 96 TBs of raw capacity.
After speaking with the diverse attendees at the NAB expo about our latest addition to the Caringo product line, I could see how excited they were at the reality that there was now a simple way to start using object storage. Many are struggling as they outgrow traditional SAN, NAS and Tape storage solutions. Just as important, they are tired of searching for files on disparate storage and having it inconvenience them and interrupt their workflow and their ability to deliver content to customers. 
When we talk about the benefits of object storage, what does that mean on a smaller scale?
<ul>
<li> Built-in content management, search and delivery</li>
<li> Archives are online and secure within your network</li>
<li> Ongoing costs and the risks of cloud storage are reduced</li>
</ul>
For any small- to medium-sized business that needs to keep their data online and accessible, this storage model is attractive. We all know that the “pay-as-you-grow” model makes sense. Join Senior Consultant John Bell and Engineer Jamshid Afshar next week for our <a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/running-object-storage-single-server/">Tech Tuesday Webinar: Running Object Storage on a Single Server</a> as they explain how you can store, manage, search and deliver data with just one server, while maintaining the ability to scale out by simply plugging in additional servers as your data storage needs grow. 
<a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/running-object-storage-single-server" title="More details about running Object Storage on a Single Server" class="btn btn-caringo caringo-lg" rel="noopener">Watch Single Server Video </a>
 To learn more about object storage, <a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/">check out our entire 2018 Tech Tuesday webinar series</a>, now available on demand.

Massive scalability is one thing, but what if you need to start small? Learn why Caringo recently launched the new Swarm Single Server—a complete on-prem S3 solution with built-in content management and delivery in a single server with 96 TBs of raw capacity.

NAB NYC

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Data Storage: One Size Does Not Fit All

<picture class="alignright size-medium wp-image-12784 sp-no-webp"><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thanksgiving.webp 300w,https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thanksgiving.webp 768w,https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thanksgiving.webp 800w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" type="image/webp"><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thanksgiving.jpg?resize=300%2C162&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thanksgiving.jpg?resize=768%2C416&ssl=1 768w, https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thanksgiving.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thanksgiving.jpg?resize=300%2C162&ssl=1" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-12784 sp-no-webp" height="162" width="300" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thanksgiving.jpg?resize=300%2C162&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thanksgiving.jpg?resize=768%2C416&ssl=1 768w, https://i2.wp.com/www.caringo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Thanksgiving.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-recalc-dims="1"></picture>Data is quickly gobbling up storage resources. The 2017 IDC whitepaper <a href="https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/our-story/trends/files/Seagate-WP-DataAge2025-March-2017.pdf" target="_blank" rel="bookmark nofolllow noopener" title="Download the Seagate Data Age 2025 Whitepaper">Data Age 2025</a> referenced in almost every recent article on data growth presents many startling statistics and predicts that:
<blockquote>…over 19ZB of storage capacity must ship across all media types from 2017 to 2025 to keep up with storage demands.
<footer style="font-size: 10px;">David, Reinsel & John, Gantz & John, Rydning (April 2017). <cite title="Data Age 2025: The Evolution of Data to Life-Critical">The Evolution of Data to Life-Critical</cite>. Retrieved from https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/our-story/trends/files/Seagate-WP-DataAge2025-March-2017.pdf</footer>
</blockquote>
To respond to this type of data growth, organizations of every size will need to adopt a holistic approach that incorporates multiple types of storage. I’ve often heard object storage referred to as a “niche technology.” However, the issues that object storage solves certainly aren’t “niche.”
<h2>Swarm Object Storage Comes of Age</h2>
Earlier this year, we celebrated <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/caringo-turns-13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Read About Caringo's 13th Birthday">Caringo turning 13</a>. We released our first object storage software in 2006 and with our 10–10 launch of Swarm 10, we now have what is arguably the most mature object storage solution in the  market. (Read more in the blog <a href="https://www.caringo.com/blog/swarm-10-object-storage-demand-distributed-world/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" alt="Learn about Swarm 10 Object Storage Software">Swarm 10 Object Storage</a> for the On-Demand, Distributed World.) While we continue to be a cost-effective storage solution—often reducing overall storage TCO for customers up to 75%—we have expanded our scalability both up and down so that small and mid-size organizations can reap all the benefits of object storage that our larger customers have enjoyed for years. In addition, we now have <a href="https://www.caringo.com/whitepapers/object-storage-performance-benchmark/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" alt="Swarm Object Storage Benchmarking">performance benchmarking</a> tests that delivered 35 GB/s for S3 read throughput.
<h2>An Easy Button for On-Premises S3 Storage</h2>
For many years, object storage was only a viable solution for those with a few hundred TBs or more of data. However, many organizations with smaller capacity needs now realize that object storage can help them provide metered storage to employees or end users, enabling them to keep their data accessible over the web without utilizing a web or FTP server. This is why we added the <a href="https://www.caringo.com/single-server/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Caringo Swarm Single Server Appliance Product">Swarm Single Server</a> to our product line up. Designed specifically to meet the needs of small- to medium-sized content-driven organizations, it provides a complete <a href="https://www.caringo.com/resources/product-briefs/single-server" rel="noopener" target="_blank">on-premises S3 solution</a> with built-in content management and delivery in a single server with 96 TBs of raw capacity. With the Swarm Single Server, we essentially provide an “easy button” for organizations that need a path to expansion as they grow their digital assets. (<a href="https://www.caringo.com/single-server/">Learn more about the Swarm Single Server</a>.)
<h2>Working Together for Better Solutions</h2>
One of our core missions is finding ways we can enable businesses to explore storage solutions that fit their particular use cases. Our efforts include:
<ul>
<li>Expanding our <a href="https://www.caringo.com/connect/find-a-partner" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Visit Partners Page">technology partnerships</a> and interoperability testing</li>
<li>Adding more <a href="https://www.caringo.com/connect/find-a-partner" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Visit Partners Page">certified Caringo resellers</a> who bring industry and region-specific knowledge</li>
<li>Providing advanced tools like <a href="https://www.caringo.com/filefly/" title="Caringo FileFly File Transfer Product">FileFly</a>, <a href="https://www.caringo.com/swarmnfs/" title="Caringo SwarmNFS NFSv4 Product Connector" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SwarmNFS</a> and <a href="https://www.caringo.com/caringo-drive/" title="Caringo Drive File Access Product">Caringo Drive</a> to ease management and movement of data</li>
<li>Offering a free Swarm Developer’s Edition and a FileFly Community Edition to qualified applicants (apply on <a href="https://connect.caringo.com/" title="Visit Customer Website" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caringo Connect</a>)</li>
<li>Presenting educational content on object storage (check out our <a href="https://www.caringo.com/webinars/" title="Caringo Product Webinars">webinars</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Here to Help You</h3>
If you need help eliminating storage silos and ensuring your data is easily accessible and secure, <a href="https://www.caringo.com/company/try-swarm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contact us for a customized demo</a> or to speak with one of our storage architects. For our current customers, the <a href="https://www.caringo.com/support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caringo Support Team</a> is available 7x24x365, helping make your holiday season stress and hassle free.

To respond to the growth of data, organizations of every size will need to adopt a holistic approach that incorporates multiple types of storage, including object storage.

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