The Evolution of Media Management, Brews & Bytes, episode 8

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

As we head into the second decade of the millenia, the evolution of technology is accelerating and object storage is a foundational component. In the inaugural episode of our Brews & Bytes series, we’ll talk about where storage is headed in the coming decade and how you and your organization can prepare for the roaring 20s!

Our VP Marketing Adrian “AJ” Herrera hosts a discussion with CEO Tony Barbagallo and VP of Sales Ben Canter in our premiere episode of Brews & Bytes.

From data analysis to metadata search and content streaming, there are many ways to use an object-based storage solution. Go beyond the basics and take a deep dive into object storage with Caringo Principal Solution Architect Ryan Meek & Director of Product Eric Dey. Learn about:

--Object storage design and usage patterns
--High-performance metadata
--Configurations that maximize performance