Founded in 2003, the Bulgarian ISV develops a hybrid cloud file storage solution named Tiger Bridge, at least this is what they actively promote today. This shift from on-premises to cloud happened in 2017 after years of leadership in SAN/NAS heterogeneous file sharing with historically MetaSAN and MetaLAN and later Tiger Store. We have to mention as well Tiger Spaces and Tiger Pool, all these 3 products being well adopted by the M&E sector. Tiger Technology is one of the few famous players with a pretty advanced SAN File Sharing System allowing Windows files to be shared natively across Mac and Linux machines in addition to Windows. In that case the back-end file system is NTFS of course not understood by Linux or Mac systems.
As illustrated, the company is recognized for its Windows expertise and especially its NTFS deep knowledge, being an active promoter of the Bulgarian center of software excellence in the domain. We also have in mind a few others companies from the same country like StorPool, Sanbolic, Lucidlink and DataCore, VMware and Microsoft have strong development centers there as well.
The team has recognized the need to integrate the cloud to its products and the idea to span public cloud to extend on-premises storage was born at that time in the company. In other words how to help their installed base, and new customers, to include the cloud in their data workflow and leverage properties and advantages of the cloud. The main idea was to mix file system and S3 based object storage, still exposing locally industry standard file sharing protocols plus coupling public object storage, in a fully transparent way for applications. Again this is not new but how Tiger does it with their Windows and NTFS expertise makes the result, again, outstanding. Thus we can assimilate Tiger Bridge as a cloud file gateway coupling local and cloud-based file data.
Trying to understand what is behind Tiger Bridge, we learn that there is no database so no need to protect that part, no risk of divergence and no bottleneck at this level even if some of them are really fast and used by competitive products. They provide direct NFS and SMB support, nothing new here, deliver partial restore and rely on stub files with an intelligent proprietary format when files are migrated to the cloud. Also the data synchronization between on-premises and cloud is bi-directional.
Tiger Bridge is oemed by Wasabi Technologies and several partners has validated and adopted the product both with their on-premises solutions but also cloud providers. Definitely an interesting solution that should be adopted more widely in the coming months.
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