Caringo Swarm Object Storage Deployed in JASMIN Super Data Cluster...
Summary
Caringo, Inc. announced today that Swarm Object Storage has been deployed by the JASMIN facility, a "super-data-cluster," that delivers infrastructure for data analysis funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the UK Space Agency (UKSA), educational institutions and private industry.The object storage solution selected needed to achieve read performance characteristics similar to existing parallel file systems.“The performance figures achieved are the result of Swarm’s unique parallel architecture that’s free of the bottlenecks inherent in other object storage solutions on the market,” said Tony Barbagallo, Caringo CEO.“These results are similar to what parallel file systems achieved in the same environment and we have a solid roadmap to continued performance improvements in future Swarm releases.”Today, Caringo software-defined object storage solutions are used to preserve and provide access to rapidly scaling data sets across many industries by organizations such as NEP, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Argonne National Labs, Texas Tech University, Department of Defense, the Brazilian Federal Court System, British Telecom and hundreds more worldwide.