Caringo: Free 100TB of S3 Accessible, Secure Scale-Out Storage to Media and Entertainment Firms

Caringo, Inc. is offering free full-featured 100TB Swarm licenses to qualified media and entertainment (M&E) firms that are struggling to store, manage and protect theirgrowing library of digital assets while keeping them securely accessible.

Qualified firms include but are not limited to recording studios, content creation and post-production houses, broadcasters, and studios.

“IT execs in the M&E space are under extreme pressure to provide long-term accessible storage and instant search and delivery to customers and viewers,” said Adrian Herrera, VP, marketing, Caringo. “The cloud isn’t a viable option for many because of security and cost concerns. The solution to this is using the same technology that powers major clouds-object storage, secure in their data center. With our announcement today, we are making it easy for qualified firms to get started by offering 100 terabytes of storage for free.“

The free 100TB license and integration consultation is available to qualified M&E firms.

Field-hardened, vetted and tested for over a decade to the highest standards of data integrity and reliability, Swarm serves as the foundation for securely accessible digital asset libraries and storage services for a range of government, telecommunications, education, corporate and entertainment organizations including the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, BT, iQ Media, Johns Hopkins University, British Telecom, NEP and hundreds more worldwide. Swarm installs on any mix of standard storage hardware, transforming it into a limitless and pool of storage resources with asset protection, lifecycle management, search and security built in.

The result is a solution that integrates into media production and post, distribution and archive workflows, delivering up to a 75% reduction in storage TCO through unique hardware, operational and workflow efficiencies including:

Industry hardware and server utilization for your content. Use up to 95% of HDD space and 100% of drive bays for digital assets.
The ability to automatically add performance or capacity in 90s and continuously upgrade hardware without downtime or disruption to asset accessibility.
Automated policy-based protection to optimize for rapid access or data center footprint delivering enterprise-grade durability while defending against ransomware attacks.
Cross-platform collaboration and access enabled by Write/Read/Edit via HTTP, S3 or NFS interchangeably.
Rapid asset retrieval and instant delivery via integrated search with the ability to add custom metadata.

Swarm is a solution for M&E firms looking to balance the industry expectations that storage should be free and assets should be immediately accessible from any device.