A Deeper Dive Into Object Storage

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.

Join Sr. Consultant John Bell and UI Engineer Brian Guetzlaff for a tour and demo using the Swarm Object Storage user interface (UI) to manage a storage cluster. They will also provide insight into the management API that underpins the user interface and discuss the capabilities of the platform.

Massive scalability is one thing, but what if you want to run Object-Based Storage for a smaller shop? Can you start with a small hardware investment and run object-based storage on just one server? John Bell, Sr. Consultant, and Jamshid Afshar, Caringo Engineer, will explain how you can store, manage, search and deliver data with just one server, while maintaining the ability to scale out by simply plugging in additional servers as your data storage needs grow. They will explain how this “pay-as-you-grow” model can benefit organizations as they start to outgrow traditional SAN, NAS and Tape storage solutions.

Join Caringo CEO Tony Barbagallo and VP Marketing Adrian “AJ” Herrera as they talk about what is new in Swarm 10, a landmark release that enhances every part of the Caringo product suite with unrivaled performance and cost-savings enabled by our unique pure-object approach. Learn how Caringo has set a new precedent in on-premises object storage with blazingly fast S3 throughput and sustained petabyte-scale NFS to object read and write—all on standard hard drives, server and networking infrastructure.

Get behind-the-scenes’ insight into how to migrate data from SAN, NAS or tape to an Object-Based Storage solution. John Bell, Sr. Consultant, and Eric Dey, Director of Product Management, will share their experience from hundreds of successful object storage implementations. They will explain the ins and outs of the data migration process and share best practices to help you move from a limited traditional storage approach to the new, cost-effective, limitless storage paradigm of object storage.

Changes in content creation workflows and access patterns of content creators and end users are stressing every aspect of the traditional Media & Entertainment (M&E) storage workflow. Do you invest in high-performance storage first, or enable protection, distribution and petabyte scale with object storage? How much of each solution is needed and how can you predict usage and growth to properly size each solution? And once you do this, how do you ensure operability throughout the entire M&E workflow from creation to management to archive? In this webinar Barry Evans, Pixit Media’s CTO and Adrian Herrera, Caringo’s VP of Marketing will demonstrate how to solve these challenges through a complete software-defined storage (SDS) approach combining Pixit Media’s PixStor and PixStor Ngenea Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) solutions with the Caringo Swarm scale-out object storage platform.