Although Scality RING is designed to work perfectly well with a cloud of off-the-shelf x86 servers, it may also be used to extend the scalability of legacy storage protocols like NFS, CIFS and iSCSI. Applications and appliances from the following Scality partners may serve as interfaces to legacy storage media, enabling them to take full advantage of the RING’s scalability benefits:
Ctera is a Hybrid data management solution for Enterprise branches and MSPs. Appliances with local storage sit on each of the remote sites and handle data locally with a File sharing and syncing, backup/archival policy.
The CTera Portal is the piece of software that makes it all easy to manage multiple sites to backup and sync. It sits at the datacenter and is plugged into Scality’s Storage an allows the IT department or the MSP to manage (or delegate management) hundreds of spread out Ctera Appliances.
Gladinet offers a complete data management solution for SMBs from simple desktop backup to small NAS appliance with cloud backup for desktops and MSSQL hot backup. Depending on the product, it supports live backup, snapshots and versioning
It can also be used as a CIFS gateway to the cloud.
Mezeo is the industry’s leading provider of cloud storage management. Mezeo provides the required services for cloud storage enablement, delivered at cloud scale, utilizing industry standard infrastructure. Services include: REST API access (including API interoperability with Amazon S3), multi tenancy, identity management integration, tracking and exposing required “cloud” billing data, automated provisioning and more. MezeoCloud Version 4.0 has received significant industry and analyst recognition and provides the “missing” link for bridging traditional large scale storage offerings to cloud storage service enabled solutions. For more information, visit www.mezeo.com.
Panzura is the leading provider of high-performing, multi-site, collaborative file services at the network edge, allowing storage capacity to be centrally located, managed, and protected. Founded in 2008 and backed by top-tier venture firms, Panzura’s file server appliances leverage high-performance, secure Internet technology to create an interconnected, unified multi-site file system. This revolutionary architecture allows enterprises to save costs, significantly increase performance and secure mission-critical data via public or private cloud environments.
StorSimple
StorSimple is the leader in cloud-enabled enterprise storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” level of certification and also VMware Ready status. StorSimple is the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year and a Silver award winner in Storage Magazine’s Products of the Year.
StorSimple securely and transparently integrates the cloud into on-premises applications and offers an integrated appliance that delivers high-performance tiered storage, live archiving, cloud based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage.
Twinstrata is a Hybrid storage array managing data in the cloud. Their virtual or physical appliance exposes storage clouds as an iSCSI device to local machines at the end-customer site, and offers like-local performance to backup and implement Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery policy.