Caringo Collaborates With Western Digital for Reliable Object Storage Solutions to Enterprises
Swarm and Ultrastar Serv60+8 hybrid storage server enable simplified management of unstructured data at massive scale.
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on October 22, 2020 at 2:08 pmCaringo, Inc. announced a collaboration with Western Digital Corp. to combine its Swarm Data Management and Object Storage Platform with WD’s Ultrastar Serv60+8 Hybrid Storage Server for managing unstructured data at massive scale.
The joint solution enables customers to store up to 1PB of data in 4U, while reducing costs, simplifying data management and supporting remote access requirements for collaboration, and continued data mining and monetization.
Swarm, now at version 11.3, is a software-defined management platform that provides a S3-compatible, on-premises solution for storage, protection, analysis, organization and search at massive scale for unstructured data (e.g., photos, videos and files). Using Swarm with WD’s performance-optimized hybrid server is a choice for enterprise organizations, OEMs, cloud service providers and systems integrators.
“Digital content and how it is consumed and managed has dramatically changed over the past decade, forcing organizations to quickly modernize their storage infrastructure,” said Tony Barbagallo, Caringo CEO. “The combination of Swarm and Western Digital’s hybrid storage servers offers a great solution for these organizations. We are excited to partner with Western Digital as their leading innovations such as patented IsoVibe vibration isolation technology and ArcticFlow thermal zone cooling technology can help improve reliability and reduce field drive returns by 62%*.”
The Ultrastar Serv60+8 is a high-capacity hybrid storage server with compute included to address the demanding needs of large enterprise customers, OEMs, cloud service providers, and integrators that require dense, shared HDD or hybrid storage. This hybrid storage server provides the added durability and data reliability required to manage the data-intensive workloads in big data and SDS environments. With a choice of CPUs, memory and drives, the Ultrastar Serv60+8 offers the flexibility to balance performance with cost.
“With the continued explosive growth in data, it is now more important than ever for organizations to find reliable data infrastructure and management solutions that are highly scalable yet extremely cost-effective,” said Kurt Chan, VP and GM, data center platforms business unit, WD. “Our vertically integrated storage servers and drives provide a very high ratio of storage to compute, which is ideal for object-based storage. We are excited to collaborate with Caringo and the company’s Swarm object storage software to help organizations simplify data management, while also optimizing performance and realizing improved TCO.”
Based on observed and projected drive return data compared to previous generation, does not change product specifications and does not alter the product warranty.
Comments
Caringo announcement is a surprise from a Western Digital (WDC) perspective. WDC has chosen to acquire Amplidata in 2015 via HGST for several hundreds of million of dollars to build a system and platforms business. They even added Tegile to make things more solid and serious. And catastrophe, they stopped these two lines and sold ActiveScale to Quantum in 2020 and IntelliFlash to DDN in 2019, and we understand there were two good bargains. This press release has a quote from Kurt Chan, VP/GM of the data center platforms business unit at WDC.
And now we see WDC partners with Caringo. Is it to react to Seagate CORTX recent announcement? Probably not as WDC didn’t say anything about reselling the joint solution.
On the Caringo side, it gives them an interesting storage server with attractive characteristics. We’ll monitor closely the future steps of this partnership.
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