
THE FUTURE OF STORAGE
RING8 is the foundation for hybrid cloud storage and data management.
The Growth of Edge Devices and Core Data
The proliferation of connected edge devices coming online, creating and consuming data, is changing the way data needs to be managed.
Edge Devices
Gartner and IDC estimate that between 25 Billion (Gartner) to 31 Billion (IDC) connected edge devices will exist by 2021, hence billions of connected edge devices and users will create and consume exabytes of data.
Core Clouds
The cloud landscape is changing: data is spread across core clouds, within the Enterprise datacenter, and public clouds, managed by hyperscalers, MSPs and Telcos. IDC estimates up to 39,000 core cloud locations will exist by 2021.
New RING8
Technical White paper
Content inside
How the RING delivers customer value through capacity scaling, consolidation of multiple storage silos while lowering costs.
Understand Hybrid Cloud
RING Deployment
Unique Scale Out File System
Multi-Site Management
New XDM Technology
Unstructured Data Problems are Arising
Exabytes of unstructured data will continue to grow

Durability
Data stored for long periods of time must be maintained properly.

Data Management
Problems will magnify through proliferation of data

Mobilization
Information will need to be replicated and transitioned across data centers.

Visibility and Control
Enterprises will have a lack of visibility and control over their data or risk lock in.

Cost
Massive increases in data increase the need for cost management.
Under the Hood
Core Enhancements

Security
- Key Management System integration via KMIP 1.2
- Hardened deployment
- Kerberos KDC authentication for NFS v4

Multi-tenancy
- S3 based quotas for STaaS
- AWS IAM Bucket Policies
- IAM User/Group policies

Cloud Native Storage Support
- AWS S3 Bucket Lifecycle transition API
- Bucket Notification API
- Up-to-date OpenStack Swift API

Legacy App Support
- NFS v4 support
- IPv6 support for NFS & SMB with native encryption

RING8 XDM
- Data orchestration and governance across public clouds, such as AWS S3, Azure, GCP, etc
- Policy-based data mobility such as lifecycle tiering and 1-to-many replication
- Global metadata namespace and search, across RING and public clouds
The New Era of Hybrid Cloud
RING8 brings its most sophisticated XDM Solution to Market to:
- Eliminate data silos: massively scalable & durable storage for core clouds that can span across petabytes as a single system
- Process Intelligent orchestration: data mobility policies across core, edge & public clouds, to move data for greater data protection.
- Create Global Visibility: data view & search across all clouds/sites for central point of governance for data
- Deliver Edge Data Services: storage, caching & mobility policies on object storage and NAS
Extended Data Management

Scality Client Testimonials
What our clients are saying about our Products.
“A whole infrastructure solution that can add the scale that we need for all of the changes coming in the future.”
Loic Barbou Consultant, Bloomberg
“The advantage of Scality in addition to its proximity is its ability to innovate as well as the quality and robustness of its technology.”
Bruno Landes Head of Earthworks and Topography Division, SNCF