Caringo Software-Defined Object Storage at Telefónica

Caringo, Inc. announced that its software-defined object storage, Swarm, is the foundation for a security and data integrity-focused cloud storage service offered by Telefónica S.A.

Telefónica is a largest telecommunications companies in the world in terms of market capitalization and number of customers. From its consolidated position in the sector, and with fixed telephony and mobile broadband as key areas that support future growth, the company focuses its strategy on securing its leadership in the digital world. Present in 24 countries and with a customer base of more than 320 million customers, Telefónica has a strong presence in Europe and Latin America, important industrial alliances and a large scale which positions the company to capture growth opportunities.

After a multi-year search, Telefónica selected Caringo Swarm because of its mix of data protection flexibility, compliance features, and protocol support. Also integral in Telefónica’s selection was Swarm’s focus on automation and symmetric architecture that eliminates tedious manual management often found in file system based storage solutions.

“We selected Caringo Swarm because of the software’s stability, enterprise feature set, and continued consistent innovation. Swarm will help us differentiate our service offerings while enabling us to scale our enterprise cloud storage services to a global web-scale service,” said Juan Manuel Moreno, global cloud director, Telefónica.

With multiple petabyte growth forecasts over the next few years, Telefónica was challenged to deliver an enterprise cloud storage service that could meet their growth plans while offering the most flexible data protection, compliance and data access services.

“Being selected by such a well known and respected international organization like Telefonica after their extensive search is a true testament to Swarm’s unique mix of enterprise features, resilience and scale,” said Mark Goros, CEO, Caringo. “We go far beyond your basic object store, focusing on eliminating complexity for our customers and providing real, demonstrable value which was key in being selected. We look forward to continuing to strengthen our relationship with Telefonica and helping them achieve their goal of value through service.“

Telefónica has deployed in its tier 4 data center in Alcalá (Spain) a Caringo-based solution that combines Swarm, object storage software, with Dell servers, Force 10 switches and Sonic Wall firewalls to deliver a cloud storage service with enterprise-grade durability and HA.

The service is provided, in a first phase, by Telefónica España and acens Technologies, S.L.U through Telefónica’s data centre in Alcala; a data center with tier 4 Gold certification offering the high level of reliability and security. As all data is held within Spain, not an external country, the service is unique for the Spanish market.