Caringo was founded in
2005 to change the economics of storage by developing software designed from the
ground up to solve the issues associated with relentless data growth. Caringo’s
flagship product, Swarm, decouples data from applications and hardware providing
a foundation for continued data access and analysis that continuously evolves
while guaranteeing data integrity. Today, Caringo software is the foundation for
web-scale storage solutions for the Department of Defense, the Brazilian Federal
Court System, City of Austin, Telefonica, British Telecom, Ask.com, Johns
Hopkins University and hundreds more worldwide. Follow us on twitter
@CaringoStorage and visit www.caringo.com to learn more.
see also:-
Caringo's blog |
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| who's who in SSD? - Caringo | |
by Zsolt Kerekes,
editor - StorageSearch.com
- May 2015
Caringo is active in the large data segment of the
enterprise storage software market. The company's software reobjectifies multi
petabyte scale pools of data into
cloud like quantities
of drives (which Caringo calls
Swarms) which can be
power managed according to user plans in order to provide a cost effective
alternative to tape libraries.
The
necessity of having a new category
of archive storage platforms for petabyte racks having different access
characteristics and sophisticated internal electrical power up/down cycling -
compared to legacy storage systems - was discussed in detail in my 2010 classic
article roadmap to the
Petabyte SSD which explained why (in the 2016 to 2020 timeframe) better
economics and storage density (petabytes per U) would be ultimately achieved by
fast boot flash rather than
hard drives - even if
the cost of magnetic drives reduced to zero.
In an earlier version of
this profile note about Caringo (in 2012) I commented on the strangeness to my
way of looking at things that there was still no mention of SSDs on Caringo's
web site at that time. My context being that as I expected all enterprise data
will touch or reside on SSDs in the future - it meant that all storage and
server vendors are
hostages to the
fortunes of the SSD market. And until they can articulate how they're going
to adapt to that SSD everywhere business model - it's not worth thinking about
them in your forward plans. (Remember I started writing such notes long
before companies like Intel
or Micron had any SSD
products.) In the case of Caringo we had to wait till September 2013 for the
first mention of SSDs to happen - and that was simply in a blog comment which
suggested that supporting SATA HDDs meant that SATA SSDs were supported too.
So
in that sense Caringo still doesn't have much to say to the
SSD market - aside
from - if you want some kind of long latency archive style backup which has
economics like cloud and tape - Caringo has software which can manage it.
Elsewhere in the
complex
segments which make up the enterprise storage market - there are plenty of
examples of companies which have
tiering and caching
products which occupy latency zones which are closer to the applications
servers - and which could - if the demand was there - reach into the kind of
market space occupied by Caringo - whereas it's not clear that Caringo has the
experience to stretch its reach in the other direction - back in the direction
towards shorter latencies. |
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| Smaller nuances of user
behavior (which are easier to discern as patterns in a stable market) easily get
lost under the noise created by headline technology changes and the market's
apparent willingness to slaughter and discard once loved past industry leaders.
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