A Deeper Dive Into Object Storage

As 2020 approaches, our experienced object storage experts bring you an updated look at how to evaluate object storage solutions. By now, you probably know about the many benefits of object storage, but how do you determine which one is the right solution for your use case and organization? Join us for this discussion of the criteria you should use when evaluating object storage solutions for various use cases. With our live Q&A throughout the webinar, you can ask questions of our experts who have worked directly with our customers on 100s of successful Swarm Object Storage installations. Topics include:

--Should I Build or Buy a System?
--What Storage and Data Management Features are Necessary?
--What Storage and Service Interfaces Will I Need?
--What is the Value of a Unified Namespace?
--Are There Metadata Features I Need?
--Why Does Product Support Matter?

As 2020 draws near, the deluge of data that companies must manage shows no sign of letting up. There are a number of benefits inherent in using a best-of-breed object storage solution to address this need—including the ability to scale on demand and “pay as you grow.” In this webinar, Sr. Consultant John Bell will answer the questions:

--How do I model initial capacity for new object storage deployments?
--How can I predict future capacity needs for object storage already in place?
--What are the best practices for “upgrading in place?”
--What should I consider when planning my storage budget?

The volume of data that comprises High-Performance Computing (HPC) data sets is exploding, resulting in compromised performance and speed and putting research and business objectives at risk. In this webinar, hear how Swarm Object Storage Solutions are being used by organizations such as the UK STFC Scientific Computing Department to:

--Streamline data management and access
--Reduce storage TCO up to 75%
--Provide continuous data protection

Swarm provides robust mechanisms to ensure that data integrity is maintained once an object is created in storage. However, we often get questions such as:
--How do I confirm that data initially written to Swarm wasn’t corrupted in transit (e.g., due to network errors)?
--When moving data from a different storage solution into Swarm, how do I verify that content wasn’t corrupted or lost in the process?

Learn how Caringo Swarm Object Storage provides end-to-end message integrity checks of your content as it is sent to and returned from the Swarm cluster. There will be a live demonstration and Q&A at the conclusion of the presentation.

Caringo Swarm is a massively scalable storage platform designed specifically for access, distribution and archiving of content at exabyte scale. In this webinar, learn what’s new in Swarm 11 and see demonstrations of features that:

-Reduce Time to Last Byte (TTLB) with Partial File Restore (PFR)
-Speed time to ingest with up to 5x Faster File Upload from any Browser
-Seamlessly plug secure object storage into video workflows
-Simplify file sharing to optimize pre-edit, edit and post processes
-Rapidly distribute offsite data protection with backup to S3

When it comes to protecting data, object storage provides significant advantages. In this educational webinar, we will discuss how Swarm Object Storage provides:

--Continuous, built-in data resilience that can be configured to withstand massive hardware failure
--Constant availability of data while maintaining 95% storage utilization for content
--Automated data recovery eliminating the need for error-prone and time-consuming manual management

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine that can be used with object storage to enhance metadata searching operations. In this webinar, we will:

∙ Explain what Elasticsearch is and the benefit of using it with object storage
∙ Take an in-depth look at best practices for using Elasticsearch with object storage
∙ Demonstrate the use of Elasticsearch with Caringo Swarm

As Prometheus and Grafana become increasingly popular, combining these technologies to monitor Swarm has been a common request from our community. In May, we released Swarm 10, which includes a Prometheus Exporter. This webinar will give an overview of the Exporter and show you how to use it with Grafana 6.x for monitoring.

Organizations across all industries are struggling with enabling instant on-demand access to archived video. Workflows relied upon for years, based on tape, are becoming too difficult to manage and video assets are taking longer and longer to recall. The cloud is an option but compounding recurring costs, bandwidth limitations and asset security are valid concerns. The solution is on-prem object storage. In this webinar, you will learn how to plug object storage into digital asset management solutions via the Amazon S3 interface. You will also learn how to consolidate video archives, enable private streaming and provide video-on-demand (VOD) directly from the archive layer.

While the S3 protocol has become the de facto choice for cloud and object storage, there can be important details that your storage vendor isn’t telling you. Are there bottlenecks or scaling problems waiting for you in a year or two? Should you be asking for more than "just S3" for unlocking value from your data? Our experts discuss these secret details and explain how Caringo’s storage solution gives you S3 along with the other pieces necessary to meet your evolving storage needs.

Object protocols and file translations present performance testing challenges that are different from standard file systems. In this webinar, we will identify the relevant performance benchmarks for object storage software testing and discuss best practices for measuring and evaluating performance in object storage systems.

FileFly is the solution you need for complete, automated and flexible data lifecycle management of unstructured data—from creation to preservation. Working with both NetApp and Windows filers, FileFly allows you to set policies that guide the level and target of file data movement based on your organization’s requirements. Senior Consultants John Bell and Tony Lokko explain how FileFly works and can now be used with any of the Big 3 cloud providers (Azure, Google and Amazon) as well as Caringo Swarm Object Storage. They will demonstrate use of FileFly and have a live Q&A session so you can learn from their extensive experience in architecting, deploying and managing storage solutions.

Digital video and M&E workflows are changing rapidly driven by distributed workforces and on-demand content consumption. In this webinar, you will learn how to stream content directly from storage, how to set up multi-site content distribution for collaboration, how to unify file system (NFS) and RESTful (S3) workloads, and the pros and cons of using object storage vs tape.

Metadata is data about the data, but how does it work with object storage? What benefits can you reap by using metadata, and do all object storage solutions use metadata the same way? In this Tech Tuesday webinar, Ryan Meek will take a deep dive on metadata and explain how it can be used to unlock the intelligence potential that resides in large data repositories.

In this webinar, John Bell and Brian Guetzlaff will explore the advanced capabilities of Caringo Swarm’s Content Management API, including managing user access, usage and content (using collections and metadata). They will provide a live demonstration and show you how to use the Swarm Object Storage Content Portal User Interface (UI). Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions throughout the webinar.

Video production workflows are evolving rapidly to satisfy on-demand requirements. Production timelines are compressing and content needs to remain online and accessible for indefinite lengths of time. This has introduced the need for more “tiers” of storage. In this webinar, Nicholas Smith, JB&A Director of Media Technology, and Adrian “Aj” Herrera, Caringo, VP of Marketing, will give an overview of the 5 tiers of storage for any new video production workflows—covering super-fast storage for editing to economical storage on-prem or in the cloud and everything in between.

Do you need to securely store data and access it via NFS? In this webinar, John Bell and Michael Brame will discuss using NFS with object storage and explain how this has been handled by traditional file-to-object gateways. They will also do a live demo of Caringo SwarmNFS—the first lightweight file protocol converter to bring the benefits of scale-out object storage to NFSv4, seamlessly integrating files and object storage.