Scality is a global company based in San Francisco, California that develops software-defined object storage. The Scality scale-out object storage software platform called RING is the company's commercial product; Scality also offers an open source CloudServer (S3 Server) with protocol, compatible with Amazon S3. Scality RING software deploys on industry-standard x86 servers to store objects and files.
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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. 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. 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. In 2016, HPE made a strategic investment in the company.
Scality announced a refreshed brand, along with a global distribution agreement with HP in October 2014. Scality added Dell and Cisco as global resellers in 2015.
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Products
Scality's principal product is a scale-out object storage software 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. 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.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% availability, guaranteed--all while reducing costs by as much as 90% over legacy systems.
The Scality S3 Server (CloudServer) is an Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service-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.
- Scality released version 4.3 of the RING software in July 2014, improving performance, adding replication options, and introducing a redesigned management GUI.
- 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.
- 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
- Version 6.0 of the Scality RING was introduced in 2016
- Scality open sourced their object server frontend called S3 Server that implements the AWS S3 API in July 2017, the source code is available on Github under an Apache 2.0 license and prebuilt containers are available on Docker Hub
- Scality RING7 launched in June, 2017 with enhanced security and multi-cloud file and object storage.
Scality has been recognized consistently over the years for object-based storage by IDC. In Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. Scality was a 2014 storage system software finalist by Storage Magazine
References
External links
- Scality web site
- Scality Zenko web site
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