Case Study: Massive Media achieves linear storage scalability with Caringo Swarm

World's Largest Social Discovery Site Chooses Object Storage

Massive Media, a social networking company operating sites like Twoo.com and Netlog.com, faced significant challenges with their storage infrastructure's ability to scale cost-effectively. Their previous object storage systems were unable to keep up with the demands of their 110 million users, leading to performance degradation and high storage overhead. They turned to vendor Caringo for a new solution that could provide linear scalability and maintain fast user experience while storing millions of files daily.

Caringo implemented its Swarm object storage software on Massive Media's industry-standard servers. The solution provided hardware-agnostic storage with a shared-nothing architecture, enabling easy scaling and automatic recovery from node failures. The results included a more than 20% reduction in the price per terabyte, minimal maintenance, and a seamless setup completed in hours. Massive Media was so impressed with the performance and cost savings that they began migrating all their legacy storage to the Caringo Swarm platform.

Massive Media

Nicolas Van Eenaeme

Director of Technology