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Scality develops cost-effective Software Defined Storage (SDS): the RING, which serves over 500 million end-users worldwide with over 800 billion objects in production; and the open-source [[S3.scality.com|S3 Server]]. Scality RING software deploys on any industry-standard x86 server, uniquely delivering performance, 100% availability and data durability, while integrating easily in the datacenter thanks to its native support for directory integration, traditional file applications, and certified compatibility with the tools that businesses use to get things done. Scality’s complete solutions excel at serving the specific storage needs of Global 2000 Enterprise, Media and Entertainment, Government and Cloud Provider customers while delivering up to 90% reduction in TCO versus legacy storage. A global company, Scality is headquartered in San Francisco.
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| foundation = 2009
| location_city = [[San Francisco, California]]
| location_country = United States
| key_people = Jérôme Lecat, CEO<br /> Giorgio Regni, CTO<br /> Erwan Menard, COO<br /> Philippe Mechanick, CFO
| num_employees = 180
| industry = [[Information technology]], [[Computer data storage|data storage]]
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Scality, world leader in object and cloud storage, develops cost-effective Software Defined Storage (SDS): the RING, which serves over 500 million end-users worldwide with over 800 billion objects in production; and the open-source [[S3.scality.com|S3 Server]]. Scality RING software deploys on any industry-standard x86 server, uniquely delivering performance, 100% availability and data durability, while integrating easily in the datacenter thanks to its native support for directory integration, traditional file applications, and certified compatibility with the tools that businesses use to get things done. Scality’s complete solutions excel at serving the specific storage needs of Global 2000 Enterprise, Media and Entertainment, Government and Cloud Provider customers while delivering up to 90% reduction in TCO versus legacy storage. A global company, Scality is headquartered in San Francisco.


'''Object Storage in the Age of Digital Transformation'''
'''Object Storage in the Age of Digital Transformation'''

Revision as of 18:37, 21 March 2017

Scality develops cost-effective Software Defined Storage (SDS): the RING, which serves over 500 million end-users worldwide with over 800 billion objects in production; and the open-source S3 Server. Scality RING software deploys on any industry-standard x86 server, uniquely delivering performance, 100% availability and data durability, while integrating easily in the datacenter thanks to its native support for directory integration, traditional file applications, and certified compatibility with the tools that businesses use to get things done. Scality’s complete solutions excel at serving the specific storage needs of Global 2000 Enterprise, Media and Entertainment, Government and Cloud Provider customers while delivering up to 90% reduction in TCO versus legacy storage. A global company, Scality is headquartered in San Francisco.

Object Storage in the Age of Digital Transformation

The reality of the Digital Transformation means huge expansion of data--valuable data--at the center of every business : audio, high resolution images, videos, security, IoT, Big Data, AI, documents, backup and archive…  All of this data means that there's a massive increase in need for a place to put it; a need for efficient storage. And, of course, if it's worth keeping, the easy access to it is critical as well. Businesses and consumers alike expect an always-on service, putting more pressure for an always-on infrastructure.    

Object Storage is one of the fastest growing segments of the Enterprise Storage Market. According to the IDC report “Worldwide File – and Object – Based Storage Forecast, 2016 – 2020” (IDC #US41685816, September 2016), it is estimated that object-based storage capacity is expected to grow at a CAGR of 30.7 percent from 2016 to 2020, reaching 293.7EB in 2020.

Leadership

Recognized by industry analysts, Scality was most recently named a global leader in object storage in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Object-Based Storage 2016 Vendor Assessment, (Doc#US41918416, December 2016), having been named in the prior two years' reports as well. The company was also tagged a leader by Gartner, Inc. in their 2016 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage research report. Its continued position as a leader reflects Scality’s deep understanding of what is required to be successful in the object storage market segment.

Scality’s principal platform is a scale-out object storage platform known as the RING. Scality’s RING delivers petabyte-scale software-defined storage designed to use commodity hardware and characterized by cost-effective scaling, performance, and auto-recovery. Scality’s RING is a multitier architecture and can scale up to thousands of servers and many 100s of petabytes under a single global namespace. It allows customers to deploy both performance-optimized and capacity-optimized storage, varied data durability levels, and small to large object and file support in a single global namespace.

History

Scality was founded in 2009 by Jérôme Lecat, Giorgio Regni, Daniel Binsfeld, Serge Dugas, and Brad King.

Scality raised $7 million of venture capital funding in March 2011.[1] A C-round of $22 million was announced in June 2013, led by Menlo Ventures and Iris Capital with participation from FSN PME and all existing investors, including Idinvest Partners, OMNES Capital and Galileo Partners.[2][3][4] Scality raised $45 million in August 2015. This Series D funding was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from all existing investors and one new strategic investor, BroadBand Tower.[5][6][7]

Scality announced a refreshed brand, along with a global distribution agreement with HP in October 2014.[8] Scality added Dell as a second global reseller in August 2015.[9][10]

Products

The Scality RING is software that turns any standard x86 servers into web-scale storage. With the RING, you can store any amount of data, of any type, with incredible efficiency and 100% reliability, guaranteed—all while reducing costs by as much as 90% over legacy systems.

The Scality S3 Server is an Amazon Web Services-compatible open source object storage server. The code is written in Node.js. It is a single instance running in a Docker container, and it uses Docker volumes for persistent storage. Scality S3 Server uses the same code as the Scality RING S3 interface and includes an Apache 2.0 license. Note, it’s not a distributed system (that’s the paid version, S3 for Enterprise). However, it does have the same level of compatibility as our S3 interface for the Scality RING.

Versions

  • Scality released version 4.2 in October 2013 which added native file access protocols including Network File System (NFS), Server Message Block (SMB), Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), and FTP.[11]
  • Scality released version 4.3 of the RING software in July 2014, improving performance, adding replication options, and introducing a redesigned management GUI.[12]
  • In November 2014, Scality made generally available a plug-in for OpenStack Swift, enabling Swift-compatible applications to use the Scality RING as a storage backend without modification. Scality also released an open source driver that enables the creation of block storage volumes that can connect to CDMI-compatible storage backends.[13]
  • Scality released version 5.0 of the RING software in March 2015, simplifying installation and configuration, expanding Windows support, and improving video streaming and content distribution performance[14][15]

Scality was recognized for object-based storage in 2013 and 2014 by IDC.[16] Scality was a 2014 storage system software finalist by Storage Magazine[17][18]

References

  1. ^ Wauters, Robin (25 February 2011). "Scality Raises $7 Million For Enterprise Cloud Storage System". Techcrunch. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  2. ^ Mellor, Chris (9 Jul 2013). "VCs add Scality to give-'em-cash list: We liked it, put a RING on it". The Register. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  3. ^ Grant, Rebecca (9 July 2013). "Software-defined storage startup Scality raises $22M from Menlo Ventures". Venturebeat. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  4. ^ Harris, Derrick (9 July 2013). "Scale-out storage still matters as Scality raises $22M". Gigaom. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  5. ^ Kepes, Ben (26 August 2015). "Scality picks up cash to software-ize all the storage things". Computerworld. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  6. ^ Hall, Gina (24 August 2015). "Aiming for 2017 IPO, Object-based storage startup Scality raises $45 million". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  7. ^ Armstrong, Adam (24 August 2015). "Scality Raises Another $45 Million In Series D Funding". StorageReview.com. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  8. ^ Mellor, Chris (16 October 2014). "HP slips on Scality's RING, plans to flog it with ProLiant servers". The Register. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  9. ^ Vizard, Mike (19 August 2015). "Dell to Ship Servers With Scality's Software Defined Storage". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  10. ^ Mellor, Chris (18 August 2015). "Dell reselling Scality's RING for multi-petabyte data munching". TheRegister. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  11. ^ Hernandez, Pedro (10 October 2013). "Scality Cloud Storage Update Delivers Native NFS Support". Enterprise Storage Forum. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  12. ^ Mellor, Chris (1 July 2014). "Los Alamos National Laboratory likes it, puts Scality's RING on it". The Register. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  13. ^ Mellor, Chris (4 November 2014). "Cloud-tailored Swift, RING jobs... Give it a REST, Scality. Oh good". The Register. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  14. ^ Lelii, Sonia (27 March 2015). "Scality's Ring 5 shows up with remodeled interface and SMB support". TechTarget. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  15. ^ Wheatley, Mike (26 August 2014). "Scality delivers 'Amazon EBS-like' VM storage with RING 5.0". SiliconAngle. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  16. ^ Nadkarni, Ashish (December 2014). "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Object-Based Storage 2014 Vendor Assessment". Retrieved 13 January 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. ^ Sliwa, Carol (9 January 2015). "Storage system software: 2014 Products of the Year finalists". Searchstorage.com. TechTarget. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  18. ^ Sliwa, Carol (9 February 2015). "Best data storage products 2014: Products of the Year". Searchstorage.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
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