Cloud and Edge Storage. Solved.
Agility, Flexibility and Scalability for Modern Digital Business
Scality offers a leading Cloud and Edge Storage Solution. The world of application development and Cloud and Edge Storage is transforming from monolithic applications to a new model of stateless, container-based microservices. These applications can be deployed in a portable and agile manner in a wide variety of private and public cloud environments. For application content created and managed by these apps, the use of RESTful object storage protocols an ideal match. Popularity of the AWS S3 API, OpenStack Swift, and Azure Blob APIs in addition to simple vendor-neutral REST protocols, provide a natural “cloud native storage” functionality for these apps such as provided by the Scality RING.
Storage Applications
As enterprises transform their businesses, new cloud native mobile apps, edge cloud portals and SaaS offerings deployed as microservices will require cloud native storage. This includes enterprise applications consuming content such as document repositories, imaging, video and consumer facing applications in banking, online trading, insurance, travel, entertainment and many other industries.
Edge and Cloud Storage Infrastructure
Service providers are building cloud services that require massively scalable cloud native storage. Service management portals, business-to-business and business-to-consumer offerings such as cloud backup, archive, photo sharing, video streaming as well as core infrastructure (IaaS) all require access to cloud native object storage, over AWS S3 style REST protocols.
Edge and Cloud Storage Pain Points
Flexible, Durable, Scalable Storage for Cloud Native Applications

Data Growth
With the explosive data growth of content from new cloud native apps, data storage demands will increase beyond today’s storage system limits.

Legacy Cloud Native Storage
Legacy interfaces such as SAN and NAS systems do not provide cloud native storage interfaces for application data.

No Storage Agility
A lack of agility makes it difficult to provision cloud storage services in on-premises storage solutions.

Data Storage Limits
Limitations from traditional storage systems have insufficient performance for the access characteristics of cloud native apps.

Use Case Hosting
Inability to host multiple use-cases from on-premises storage solutions do not provide cloud-style multi-tenancy capabilities.

Data Lock in
High cost & lock-in from using public cloud storage such as AWS S3 can explode costs and create lock-in to specific vendor APIs.
Scality value proposition for Cloud and Edge Storage

Unbounded Cloud Storage
RING supports growth of cloud and edge storage services to dozens of Petabytes and beyond.

Industry Leader
Industry-leading cloud and edge storage, Scality’s comprehensive support of AWS S3, OpenStack Swift and native RESTful APIs.

Data Storage Agility
Super agile storage for easy and fast provisioning of new cloud and edge storage services, buckets with a self-service portal for point-and-click identity management.

Cloud Performance
Scality RING can scale to support unbounded numbers of applications and end-users at cloud scale.

Cloud Security
Secure multi-tenancy means RING provides a 100% AWS compatible Identity and Access Management (IAM) model with secure authentication & access control policies.

No lock in
Avoidance of lock-in: RING supports multiple cloud native APIs, Zenko can make any cloud-native app ready for hybrid and multi-cloud on AWS, Azure, Google and Wasabi.
Cloud and Edge Storage
Application Partners
Market leading Scality RING has been pre-integrated with a rich selection of enterprise cloud and edge storage solutions and works with a wide variety of hardware.







Cloud and Edge Storage Clients
Application Solutions
Any cloud application, or cloud app, is a software program where cloud-based and local components work together. This model relies on remote servers for processing logic that is accessed through a web browser with a continual internet connection.
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BACK UP FOR ENTERPRISE
Backups matter, and CTOs & CIOs know it. In fact, it’s their number 2 priority. And Scality’s Enterprise Backup Solutions are there to deliver.
SCALITY AND SME
Scality and Storage Made Easy® have created a solution that enables users across cloud and object storage environments to easily and securely access, store, and share files from any desktop or mobile device.
Software-Defined Storage Solutions Solved.
When PREDICTABILITY MATTERS
Frequently Asked Questions
How can Scality lower my total cost of ownership (TCO) for backup?
Legacy storage cannot scale cost effectively to meet the requirement for backup in a digital world.
Tape media is relatively inexpensive, but the total cost to support a tape backup and archive system swells when associated activities like administrative work, off-site storage and associated pickup and recall delivery
are factored in. Tape management is labor intensive.
Public cloud is not the answer. Entry price may be low but recall costs can make it cost prohibitive.
Scality RING delivers a scalable single name space storage solution that can be utilized for both primary storage and long term archives without the associated costs found with tape, legacy storage arrays, and public cloud solutions.
If backup and archive also require a compliant solution, the Scality iCAS connector with can provide this capability cost effectively on the RING without an appliance such as Centera. Retention management, WORM, encryption, and compression is supported by iCAS.
Is Scality more complicated than standard NAS appliances?
Appliances do have deployment advantages at smaller scale, but SDS like Scality grows in efficiency as the system scales. You can scale up to ten petabytes and still administer the system with only one FTE. By decoupling the data protection from the hardware, your durability is also greater, maintenance can be on a rolling basis with no loss in availability, and hardware can be replaced and added with no downtime and complete hardware choice.
Does Scality provide deduplication or compression?
Many of the Enterprise backup software technologies already offer deduplication and compression at the source. In addition, the cost of capacity and increased density of servers has driven costs down so that object storage is significantly less costly than NAS or dedicated appliances. The combination is a no-brainer.
Beyond application support for encryption, some disk controllers support encryption for data as it’s written to disk.
Does Scality support my preferred backup application?
Scality makes modernizing easy. Compatibility is a priority, so we work with independent software vendors to qualify and certify compatibility with a broad range of backup and other software products, and have an industry-standard S3 interface, so integration with existing tools is easy. Applications access Scality RING via connectors that support multiple workload types (file and object) and multiple protocols such as NFS, VMFS, SMB, FUSE, REST and S3.
How secure is Scality?
The RING supports application-driven encryption, and object-level encryption for its object interface. This provides greater flexibility when it comes to deployment and key management.
Compliance requirements can be met by routing backup and archive data through the Scality iCAS connector which is Cohasset SEC 17 a-4 validated and KPMG certified.by parallelizing operations, performance grows linearly with the capacity
Is there a limit to my backup size with Scality?
The RING can grow up to 1 trillion, which is virtually unlimited. For example, Comcast (a large ISP) stores more than 80 billion objects in the RING.
How does Scality affect my backup performance expectations?
Scality RING is a disk based solution with all the benefits of random access. Multiple streams and connectors can be deployed for higher performance.
• The RING achieves exceptional performance by parallelizing operations. Performance grows linearly with the capacity.
• In addition, a write cache mechanism allows faster acknowledge to the backup application.
How does Scality affect my restoration performance expectations?
Scality RING is a disk based solution with all the benefits of using disk technology instead of tape. Tape restoration is limited to the number of available tape drives. Multiple server or file restores from tape are limited to the performance and availability of the required media before the operation can begin. This is not the case with Scality RING, which provides cost-effective, always available disk-based backups.
• Public cloud restores are limited to the available WAN bandwidth. Scality RING provides a multi-stream private cloud restore solution.
• The RING achieves exceptional performance by parallelizing operations. Performance grows linearly with the capacity.
• Read bandwidth used in restore operations can reach 100 Gb/s as is the case with Deluxe, a Scality customer.
What happens if a server or disk fails...can I still get to my backup?
Thanks to Scality protection mechanisms (replication for small object and erasure coding for large objects) data is still accessible even in the event of several disks, servers or even site failure. There is no single point of failure in the Scality architecture.
How does Scality effect my backup durability expectations?
Disk is inherently more reliable than tape for storage. 14×9’s of reliability can be achieved using the Scality RING. There is no scheduled maintenance which would impact data availability, as would be the case when using a tape library or even a legacy disk array. The RING self-healing mechanism allows failed components (HDD or servers) to be replaced on maintenance windows rather than immediately.
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