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As we all adjust to the current fluidity in every aspect of life, one thing is clear—global connectivity has helped keep the world economy from completely collapsing by enabling remote working and electronic commerce. In episode 10 of Brews & Bytes, we will tackle these questions:

--What are the trends in connectivity and services to businesses and consumers, and how have they evolved in recent years?
--Should everything digital that is created by businesses and individuals be online, searchable and accessible?
--How can you achieve an “everything-online” approach?

Caringo VP of Marketing and Brews & Bytes host Adrian J Herrera will be joined by Tony Barbagallo, Caringo CEO, and Philip Buckley-Mellor, Infrastructure Designer for BT Service Platforms. BT Services Platform includes broadband, DNS, email, EE/mobile, Media & Broadcast and BT TV. You don’t want to miss this webinar!

As organizations start to figure out how to work in these unprecedented times, one thing is clear—processes that used to be easy are now quite convoluted with procedures to minimize risks. From not being able to easily go to a particular site to sanitization and social-distancing requirements, creating new content is far more complex and costs more than it used to. Is there an overlooked solution to create new content while reducing costs? Can you gain an advantage by using an active archive? In this Brews & Bytes episode, we will discuss:

--How content production has changed in the era of COVID-19
--How to leverage active archives for repurposing and reuse and the impact of making content archives “active”
--How organizations are making archives searchable and accessible to supplement workflows

Caringo VP Marketing and Brews & Bytes host Adrian J Herrera will be joined by Ben Canter, Caringo VP of Sales, and Liz Davis, VP Media Workflow of Diversified—a leading technology integrator in digital media, collaboration, security and OTT solutions.

If you’re evaluating your current disaster recovery (DR) strategy or developing a new one, you’re probably considering the best way to incorporate cloud storage. There are a number of factors that contribute to why you should consider using cloud storage. Maybe you don’t want to build and staff another data center right now; or, perhaps you want to decommission your secondary center without spinning up a new cloud disaster recovery (DR) site. Or, maybe you’ve just outgrown your current solution.

Tune in to our next Tech Tuesday webinar where Ryan Meek, Principal Solutions Architect, and Jose Marcos, Sales Engineer, discuss strategies for incorporating cloud (public, private and hybrid) into your storage architecture. Bringing expertise from working on hundreds of storage deployments, Ryan and Jose will explain how you can easily:

--Tier data to a DR site using automated policies
--Reduce risk and cost by using a deep storage archive for DR
--Use the cloud to simplify your storage DR
--Leverage Caringo’s expertise in data recovery processes

The webinar will include a demonstration of Caringo’s new Swarm Cloud DR powered by Wasabi and a live Q&A session.

The march towards enabling remote workflows continues in the video production world. Some processes will never be the same, and storage continues to play a critical role. Join Nicholas Smith, JB&A VP of Technology, and Adrian “AJ” Herrera, Caringo VP of Marketing, for this follow-up to the original “5 Tiers of Storage for New Video Production Workflows” webinar. They will re-examine the 5 tiers of storage for video production workflows—covering super-fast storage for editing to economical storage on-prem or in the cloud and everything in between. You will learn:

--How the challenges of producing video content have changed over the last 6 months
--How these challenges impact video storage, access and delivery requirements
--What the 5 tiers of storage for video production are and how they map to requirements and new remote workflows

In a few years when we reflect on this decade, it will be clear that it was the decade where video overtook all other forms of media as the main educational and entertainment vehicle. Every major video on-demand service, feature film, viral video, news network and now classroom relies on video content. Add a sudden shift to remote workflows and those in charge of creating, producing and delivering content now need to be able to find the videos they need on their own, from a distributed site. In this Brew & Bytes episode, we will discuss:

--How video production has changed the last decade and what a video archive looks like for various sizes of organizations
--The impact of remote workflows and how different organizations are approaching the new norm
--The role of remote access and AI-driven video search, and the importance of finding videos when they are needed

Caringo VP Marketing and Brews & Bytes host Adrian J Herrera will be joined by Ryan Meek, Caringo Principal Solutions Architect, and Sam Bogoch, CEO of axle.ai, a leading software platform for remote access and video search. They will share real-world examples of how these capabilities have evolved over the last decade.

In this webinar, learn how SwarmNFS provides NFS clients access to highly scalable and economical Swarm object storage. John Bell, Sr. Consultant, will host Michael “Q” Brame, QA Lead, for a discussion of traditional methods for handling NFS protocol access to object storage and the SwarmNFS “next-generation” approach. Details about the latest release (SwarmNFS 2.4) will be discussed along with deployment checklist items. Highlights of the latest release include:

--Improved support for Windows clients
--Enhanced performance, especially for large sequential reads
--Expanded audit logging features

The webinar will include a demonstration of the seamless integration of files and object storage with SwarmNFS and Swarm 11 Object Storage and will be followed by a live Q&A.

Some of the world’s most challenging problems—including fighting diseases, increasing food production, battling climate change, and advancing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning—are enabled by High-Performance Computing (HPC). A big part of HPC workflows is sharing data with distributed collaborators. Join us for a discussion on the challenges of managing and storing HPC data featuring the experts from Globus, a University of Chicago non-profit service. Topics will include:

--Why distributed collaborators are critical to expediting time to discovery
--How to provide direct access to computers, software, data and other resources
--Collaborative problem-solving and resource-brokering strategies
--How the largest research organizations in the world are enabling secure access to data
--The role of storage and access controls throughout HPC workflows

Caringo VP Marketing and Brews & Bytes host Adrian J Herrera will be joined by Eric Dey, Caringo Head of Product, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Globus Head of Product, and Vas Vasiliadis, Globus Chief Customer Officer. They will share real-world examples of how Globus and Caringo have worked together to solve these problems and also discuss how current events are likely to shape the future of Research workflows.

Presenters:
Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Globus Head of Product
Vas Vasiliadis, Globus Chief Customer Officer
Eric Dey, Caringo Head of Product
Adrian J Herrera, Caringo VP Marketing (host)

When you integrate the use of containers with object storage, it expands on the benefits of both technologies while removing the requirement for dedicated servers. This enables potential new use cases for object storage such as:

--Mobile video (e.g., sportscasting and video editing on site)
--Mobile army hospitals and regional health systems (such as ambulances)
--Workflows in public clouds (such as Azure, Amazon and Wasabi)
--Complex needs such as local storage for telemetry with async feed to the hub
--Edge clusters for IoT

On this Tech Tuesday webinar, Ryan Meek, Principal Solutions Architect, hosts Jamshid Afshar, Caringo’s lead on all things Container, to share how a containerized, auto-configured Caringo environment comes up quickly and reliably. They will also discuss how containers can be used for continuous integration testing and deployment, all-in-one laptop environments, demos, customer setups or reproductions and production rollouts.

The shift to all-digital workflows has increased in momentum and so have malware, ransomware and crypto-locking attacks. So, how do you keep the CIA promise (Confidentiality, Integrity and Accessibility) for content repositories and archives in light of these constant threats? In this episode of Brews & Bytes, Toon Geens, XeniT CTO, Ronny Timmermans, XeniT Co-Founder & Managing Director, and Ryan Meek, Caringo Principal Solutions Engineer, join host Adrian Herrera, Caringo VP Marketing, to discuss these questions:

--How does an organization get started addressing threat prevention and detection?
--Are there ways to contain threats and mitigate exposure?
--Can repairing and healing from data integrity issues be automated?

In today’s rapidly changing world, you need the ability to access your data from anywhere at any time. In particular, data that resides in traditional in-house storage solutions can be difficult to surface to teams suddenly required to work remotely. Fortunately, Swarm Object Storage was designed from the ground up to give you this “anywhere/anytime” capability along with many others, including:

--Web-based API compatibility (HTTP, S3) to support a wide range of applications and devices
--Ability to access corporate data from your home using S3 endpoints
--Security with full authentication & authorization (AAAA) support, including token/secret pairs
--Powerful multi-tenancy features that allow you to define business groups in object stores while avoiding data silos
--Policy-based data management
--Automatic remote site replication for rapid publication & distribution

Join Sr. Consultant John Bell as he hosts Ryan Meek, Principal Solutions Architect, for this Tech Tuesday webinar. Pulling on years of experience working with customers, they will bring their expertise and insights to this topic and also be available to answer your questions throughout the live webinar.

Workflows that deal with big files and big storage capacities are difficult to move to a distributed or remote method of processing. Along with the difficulty in transferring large files to various sites, you need to deal with storing, protecting and accessing those files in an economical way. In this episode of Brews and Bytes, Robert Browne from Signiant joins Caringo’s TW Cook and host Adrian J Herrera to discuss these questions:

--What are the problems you need to look out for when transferring large files locally or globally?
--What are the issues you may encounter storing 100s of Terabytes of files?
--How about 100s of Petabytes?
--Is there such a thing as files and storage being too big for remote workflows?

Even though The NAB Show isn’t physically happening, you can still join us virtually to see what we would have announced at the show! 1303 Systems, a solutions-oriented system integrator focused on Post-Production, Broadcast, VFX, and Film, joins forces with Western Digital and Caringo to bring you a virtual NAB tour so you can learn about:

--Powerful & simple media asset management with1303 Systems’ Crucible MAM
--Flexible resource utilization with Western Digital OpenFlex Composable Infrastructure
--Ensuring instant remote access to assets & archives with Caringo Swarm

There will be an interactive Q&A and discussion at the end of the presentation led by Charles Kuralt, 1303 Systems Workflow Specialist, who is also serving as host for the live webcast.

Presenters:
--Brian Bashaw, Western Digital Sr. Director and Business Evangelist for Composable Storage
--Seth Cohen, Western Digital Platform Sales Manager
--Chris Collum, 1303 Systems President & Founder
--Charles Kuralt, 1303 Systems Workflow Specialist
--Adrian J Herrera, Caringo VP of Marketing

While the magic lies in the innovative Caringo Swarm Object Storage software platform, choosing the right hardware to run object storage on can profoundly impact critical aspects such as:

– Performance
– Scale
– Manageability

Learn about best practices for hardware selection and how to size your object storage solution to match your specific requirements. In this Tech Tuesday webinar, Sr. Consultant John Bell shares his experience gleaned from numerous object storage implementations in small, medium and large organizations.

Social distancing has already had a major impact across every aspect of Video Production and Broadcast. Content creation, editing and delivery workflows are rapidly becoming remote.

--How are content creators, production houses and broadcasters adapting?
--What’s the role of storage in these fluid times?
--And, are these changes temporary or permanent?

In this episode of Brews & Bytes, Nick Smith, VP of Technology for JB&A, a leading distributor specializing in Video Production and Broadcast, and Ben Canter, Caringo VP of Global Sales, join host Adrian J Herrera to discuss these questions.

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Long before the term “cloud” was being used, the lively debate regarding on-premises versus offsite/managed storage raged on with questions such as:

--Should you be moving all of your data to the cloud?
--Should you keep your data on-prem?
--Is there a middle ground, and is hybrid cloud storage practical?

In this episode of our Brews & Bytes live webcast, David Boland, Wasabi Director of Product Marketing, and Eric Dey, Caringo Director of Product, join host Adrian J Herrera, VP Marketing at Caringo, to discuss these questions. With perspectives as leaders in companies that specialize in cloud storage and on-premise storage and also as technology industry professionals with multiple decades of experience, this is sure to be a lively conversation. You don’t want to miss this one!

There is a lot of variability in high-performance computing (HPC) and research workflows. The complications grow when you try to manage data access with distributed collaborators. In this Tech Tuesday webinar, Eric Dey, Caringo Director of Product, hosts Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Globus Head of Product, to discuss how to:

--Manage and protect large data sets in HPC and Research environments
--Provide easy-to-manage, secure multi-tenant access to data sets
--Eliminate data silos when working with a diverse range of storage devices
--Expedite time to discovery

There are many ways organizations, analysts and vendors categorize storage. Once you get past the techno-babble, the lowest common denominators amongst storage methods lead to 3 categories:
1) frequently accessed data
2) moderately accessed data
3) infrequently accessed data.

In this second episode of Brews & Bytes, we will take a closer look at categories 2 and 3, which we are calling “economical” storage.

This conversation goes beyond just talking $/GB. Our guests Tridib Chakravarty (aka TC), the CEO of Storage DNA, and Ryan Meek, Caringo’s Principal Solutions Architect, will discuss challenges organizations are facing finding economical storage, how they are determining what data can be moved to different tiers of storage, and the pros and cons of different types of economical storage options.

Now that 2020 is here, you’ve decided you must implement object storage to keep pace with your organization’s exploding data stores. But, do you know all of the best practices around object storage installation and management? Our experts share the techniques we’ve used to set up some of the largest and longest-running installations in existence. Topics include:

--Planning for Your Installation
--Designing Your Storage Cluster
--Moving Data with Various Protocols (S3, NFS and CIFS/SMB)
--Setting Yourself up for Easy Data Searches (Elasticsearch & Indexing)
--Managing & Maintaining Your Storage Cluster Efficiently