Scality Ring 5.0 Available

Scality, Inc. announced the availability of version 5.0 of its RING software to include key features that enable complete and integration with the modern enterprise ‘Software Defined Data Center’ (SDDC).

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These features enable fast and simplified installation, UI driven configuration and provisioning, expanded use case and application workload coverage with performance increases, as well as additional client connectivity and RING deployment options for Windows and Linux clients. The release of RING 5.0 builds on the already management, durability, scalability, geo-distribution, and performance capabilities introduced in the previous version 4.3.

With the availability of RING 5.0, channel partners and resellers have access to a new user interface for automated RING installation on any industry-standard server platform, thereby simplifying deployment and presenting a installation experience for the enterprise customer. Bringing the ease of automated installation to software defined storage, RING version 5.0 enables a wider audience of users who can readily deploy, install and configure the RING, empowering enterprise users and channel partners to complete installation quickly and independently.

“RING 5.0 clearly demonstrates Scality’s commitment to its channel partners and customers,” said Brent Angle, CTO, CineSys-Oceana, VAR for the media and entertainment industry. “While other solutions are much more complicated to setup and configure, the RING makes petabyte scale more approachable and simpler to install.“

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Integrated Windows client and Windows server connectivity
New connectivity options provide access from Windows clients and servers through the integration of a native SMB Connector that expands the RING’s family of existing NFS, FUSE (Linux File System) and object connectors. This enhancement embraces Microsoft’s prevalence in the enterprise data center environment for which the RING is deployed in to support multiple use cases. In addition, deployments for RING Connectors are expanded to include the Debian Linux 7.6 (Wheezy) distribution in addition to the existing broad support for popular RedHat, CentOS and Ubuntu Linux distributions.

Simplified 15-minute RING installation
Similar to the experience with plug-and-play appliances, user interface driven capabilities in version 5.0 enable fast ‘point-and-click’ style configuration to enable resources to be provisioned, while the Central Installation Platform, included with RING 5.0, leverages an open source agent-driven framework to enable fast, 15-minute installation of all required RING components.

Performance boosts for video streaming, content distribution
A set of performance enhancements improve use cases such as video streaming, archiving, content distribution, and enterprise cloud tools. They include a more CPU-efficient erasure-coding library for the RING’s Advanced Resiliency Configuration (ARC) feature, support for 10x faster bulk file system operations and improved CDMI REST Connector performance for supporting larger numbers of simultaneous clients.

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“Version 5.0 represents a major step forward in broader enterprise adoption of the RING, and furthers our efforts to completely transform the storage industry,” said Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality. “These operational enhancements and product simplifications demonstrate our full commitment to our channel partners, which are responsible for 80% of our customer base.“

RING 5.0 is available for download from the customer portal. It is the latest available version of Scality RING.