In recent years, the industry has seen an explosion of software-defined solutions, not only for storage, but for networking and even the entire data center. Software-defined data management and storage solutions such as Caringo Swarm allow you to deploy in any hardware platform that meets certain requirements or specifications. Recently, I’ve been working on Caringo’s Hardware Compatibility Certification for Western Digital’s Ultrastar Serv60+8 Hybrid Storage line of servers. Thanks to its disk density, build quality and compute power, it is an exceptionally capable platform for managing unstructured data at massive scale. This week, Caringo announced the collaboration with Western Digital to provide a joint solution that enables organizations to manage unstructured data at massive scale like never before—they can now store up to a petabyte (PB) of data in just 4U with 18-TB drives. There are many benefits to this solution, including reduced costs and simplified data management. The solution is particularly valuable for supporting remote access requirements for collaboration, as well as for data mining and monetization of existing assets.

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