Scality Closes Deal With Social Network wer-kennt-wen.de

Scality
has closed a deal with German social networking wer-kennt-wen.de, a 100% subsidiary of
RTL interactive, to provide the storage platform for more than 9.4
million users‚ photos, messages and profile information.

Scality’s RING Organic Storage will
enable wer-kennt-wen.de to offer their users to share full HD pictures. This has been a consumer demand for several years, but
up to now, wer-kennt-wen.de had not found a cost effective storage solution to
offer this service profitably and efficiently.

The RING has a
self-healing architecture that delivers unlimited scalability. It scales to
exabytes while eliminating system downtime and manual data migrations. It is
ideal for social networking sites, where billions of user-generated files need
to be stored and kept for lifetimes. With no limit to the number of files that
it can store, and no restrictions on file sizes, it allows sites to
accommodate vast and growing memberships, cost effectively.

"Social networking data needs to be accessed with speed and reliability.
Users won’t accept anything less. Scality provides unparalleled support for
service providers coping with massive numbers of files, fast-growing storage
needs and unlimited file sizes,"
said Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality. "RING Organic Storage accommodates the growing expectations of media
consumers online for unrestricted storage and unimpeded access and reliability."

Dr Robert Zores, CTO of
wer-kennt-wen.de, added: "With more
than 9.4 million users, wer-kennt-wen.de is one of the biggest social networks
in Germany.
Our members upload hundreds of thousands of photos and information everyday,
which we store on our servers. We needed a flexible and reliable storage
solution that we found in Scality’s RING Organic Storage technology."

According to Forrester Research,
Inc., in the report: "Prepare
For Object Storage In The Enterprise" (November 29, 2010), "There’s a great deal of talk these days
about object-based storage. It’s an architecture that delivers massive
scalability, rock-bottom cost, high automation, tremendous flexibility, and
improved control. But for it to deliver on these promises, you need to cut
through the hype and determine if the drawbacks will prevent object storage
from meeting your technical and business needs. It has the potential to
significantly improve storage economics, ease of use, and control when mapped
to the right workloads. Today, those include archiving, Web 2.0 apps, imaging
applications, emerging apps designed with objects in mind, and cloud storage
environments."