Tiger Technology, a reference in hybrid file storage with a strong Windows expertise, has participated for the 3rd time to The IT Press Tour a few days ago, this time organized in Madrid, Spain. It was the right opportunity to meet again Alex Lefterov, CEO and founder, to get a company and product update.
Alex's team has recognized the need to augment its market footprint in some vertical segments. Tiger Bridge the flagship product is largely adopted and the company can surfed on 11,000+ installations since the inception 18 years ago.
As the world really jumped into the hybrid model, users continue to extent on-premises with the cloud or for some others repatriate some workloads with clearly data spanning both places, physically and virtually. Tiger Bridge leverages users' choices and complements their approach as the vendor continues to preach an on-premises first (OPF) strategy. In that direction, cloud is an extension for specific workloads and usages and can be avoided if needed in favor of a full local deployment. This model solidifies current implementations and prevents investments with the possibility to add cloud as storage space or processing extension. This OPF model has demonstrated string endorsements thanks to Tiger Bridge that boosts, simplifies and make data and service highly resilient.
Among the various industries watched carefully by the team, one has been a success for several years, video surveillance with demanding storage space needs and quality of service requirements. In fact, for some users this category represents their main focus on what their activity relies the most. Let's pick an airport, video surveillance represents a paramount dimension for a few years with the climate we all live in. All humans movements have to be tracked, all luggages must be monitored... and guess what this background service must be up and running 24 by 7.
This example is perfectly illustrated by McCarran airport in Las Vegas who chose for a few years now Tiger's solution. Initially the IT relies on all on-premises stuff with of couse camera for capture and they can't be elsewhere, local video recorders and then a huge central content repository. With the explosion of volume due to the multiplication of cameras, their high resolution and longer retention needs due to regulations and other constraints, data volumes explode and continuing with local IT entities became prohibitive. They naturally adopted a hybrid model with an archive storage based on an S3 object storage archive installed at a Flexential data center fed by tiger bridge instances. The gateway resides at the airport exposing data locally but also moving data to the external storage connected to virtual recording servers and camera.
This model helps the IT airport to control its budget, grow dynamically in both directions with always more cameras in production, reduce significantly the maintenance effort, reduce as well the complexity and deliver better resiliency and above all don't really change the overall delivered service as the infrastructure evolution took place at a lower level. Tiger Bridge makes things seamless and offers ubiquitous file access as file network shares still appear the same as they did before. The product even adds disaster recovery, CDP and ransomware protection at the same price.
Tiger Technology and its vertical iterations have clearly accelerated since our last meeting 1 year ago in Lisbon and Tiger Bride is deployed to larger domains and configurations. Congrats to the team.
