Caringo also improved CAStors feature called Fast Volume Recovery, which has proved to be quite important to DICE. According to the company, a failing node within a CAStor cluster will be rebuilt much more quickly than in the past, and it should improve data availability and reduce recovery time.
The latest iteration of CAStor is available now, priced at about $1,500 per Tbyte.
Caringo insists DICE's story points to how it's succeeding in going beyond its niche. Like its competitors -- Bycast, EMC, ExaGrid, HP, HDS, IBM, Nexsan, Permabit, and Sun -- Caringo resists attempts at classification by terminology. Even the term "CAS" meets resistance from these suppliers.
Instead, Caringo, which claims to have over 30 customers and has previously demonstrated an affinity for spin-doctoring, prefers to say it's involved in "more than archiving."
"We have been put into that niche area of being archive storage, but we see customers using CAStor for clustered storage for online data access as well as for archiving," says Derek Gascon, Caringo's VP of marketing. "We can build an online cloud of storage that serves as the infrastructure for customers who are actively serving rich media content."
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