Case Study: iQ Media achieves scalable, maintenance-free storage with Caringo Swarm

Caringo Swarm: A Maintenancefree, Easy-to-Scale Storage Platform for IQ Media

iQ Media, a provider of a cloud-based media intelligence platform, faced a significant challenge in storing and managing its rapidly growing archive of video content. The company needed a maintenance-free, easily scalable storage solution to handle over 6PB of data growing at 6TB per day, all while operating with a small IT team and without straining their budget. This led them to seek a new vendor and they selected the Caringo Swarm object storage platform along with its FileFly migration utility.

The solution implemented by Caringo provided iQ Media with a highly scalable and maintenance-free storage environment. Using Caringo Swarm, they could add nodes incrementally, utilize hardware from any vendor, and employ efficient erasure coding for data protection instead of complex RAID. The results allowed iQ Media to seamlessly migrate data and keep pace with their massive daily growth, freeing their small IT staff to focus on delivering customer value instead of managing storage infrastructure.

iQ Media

Lakshmi Venkataswamy

CTO and Co-founder