Scality Grew 500% Y/Y in 2014 in Japan

Scality, Inc. announced the opening of a new Japanese subsidiary, Scality KK, that will sell and deliver the Scality RING storage solution in Japan.

Recently named the VP and GM of Scality KK, Hiromasa Ebi joins Scality from Sandisk, and is based in Tokyo.

He has a track record of bringing innovative storage solutions to Japan, and building Japan-based businesses. He drove NetApp’s growth in Japan in the early 2000’s, and then as an executive and country manager, led the growth of Isilon and Fusion-io, which were then acquired by EMC and SanDisk respectively.

“I am very excited to build the Scality business and help Japanese customers realize the incredible value and differentiation of software-defined storage. In my 20 plus years of IT experience, I have never seen such a disruptive opportunity for businesses,” said Ebi.

With the establishment of its Japan entity, Scality will strengthen partnerships with Open Wave Systems, Zimbra Japan, and Two-Five, as well as start joint sales activities with Scality’s global partners such as Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP and Seagate Technology LLC.

Scality has also announced that it has closed a strategic distribution partnership with BroadBand Tower, Inc. as the first cloud solutions partner in Japan.

It will open its Japanese support desk, which plans to be 24 hours a day during business days by the end of the year, to provide support as well as building a structured entity with sales, system engineering and marketing departments.

“Scality already derives 15% of our business from Japan, and experienced more than 500% Y/Y growth in 2014. Japan is filled with businesses that are ready for a storage revolution,” said Erwan Menard, COO, Scality. “Manufacturing, Web, cloud, technology, banking, service providers, and other industries are trying to get more value out of their increasingly expanding data. With the Scality RING, they will have the scalability and economics they need to store, manage, and serve their petabytes of data forever, with the performance and agility to support 80% of their existing and new applications. In addition, our partnerships with leading hardware providers like HP will enable one stop shopping for enterprise customers.“

Scality’s accelerated Japan investment comes after a record 2014 when two of the largest Japanese telecommunications companies became customers.

“Hewlett-Packard Japan welcomes the establishment of Scality Japan. We provide HA and cost effective object storage systems such as HP ProLiant SL4500 series and HP ProLiant Gen9 servers by combining Scality’s technology. We will continue to offer the best solutions for cloud services and data archiving solutions to enterprises to support their business with effective use of data,” said Takeshi Otsuki, director and GM, HP servers, enterprise group, Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd.

“Nippon Seagate Inc. is pleased to collaborate with Scality Japan on joint launch activities surrounding the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform and its implementation of Scality Scale Out software,” said Futoshi Niizuma, executive director and representative director, Nippon Seagate Inc. “Seagate Kinetic technology empowers Scality to enhance the value of enterprise replication with peer-to-peer architecture for limitless replication, geo distribution and synchronized operations. This joint solution will address the large storage deployment challenges of cloud service providers and private enterprise.“

“Congratulations on the establishment of Scality Japan. BroadBand Tower has provided datacenter services, Internet exchange services, cloud services and storage solutions since our establishment in 2000. We believe new markets will emerge using Scality’s distributed storage solutions such as backup/archive and cloud storage services as content and the IoT market grows. We believe that Scality’s technologies will contribute to the Japanese industry by serving as complimentary solutions to datacenters, cloud services and storage solutions,” said Hiroshi Fujiwara, chairman, president and CEO, BroadBand Tower.

“OpenWave has strong partnership with Scality. By combining our messaging platform with Scality’s SDS, it produces high ROI. OpenWave welcomes Scality on its Japan entity establishment. This will provide more quality to the Japanese customers as well as being a big step for Japan’s information technology growth,” said Yosuke Morioka, GM of Open Wave Systems K.K.

“Zimbra welcomes Scality for establishing its Japan entity. Scality is our strong partner by combining our ZCS messaging collaboration platform and Scality RING to provide availability and value to our customers. We are focused to provide the Japanese customers with more support and services,” said Nobuya Matsuoka, president of Zimbra Japan K.K.

“Congratulations on the establishment of Scality Japan. TwoFive is in cooperation with Scality by combining Dovecot and Scality’s distributed storage technologies for zero downtime stateless systems. I believe this distributed storage environment will increase in the future especially in large-scale email systems. TwoFive will continuously contribute in the distributed storage market in cooperation with Scality,” said Nobuhiro Suemasa, president of TwoFive.