EDF Chose Scality Ring Rather Than EMC Isilon and IBM Spectrum Scale

Scality, Inc. announced that Électricité de France SA (EDF), the largest global supplier of electricity and one of the world’s largest public companies, has installed it RING object storage as its back-end storage.

EDF’s IT engineering team is now confident that data is available where and when it’s needed and that they can grow storage capacity without limit or interruption, while supporting multiple use cases across the vast organization.

“Scality RING represents modernization for EDF. It is our first foray into software-defined storage and it helped our small IT team win a top innovation award within the company, validating that a big, conventional organization, can innovate,” said Ruggero Gatti, data management engineer, EDF. “We won with Scality because it brought strong, resilient storage for multiple use cases at half the cost of competitive solutions. The most impressive thing about Scality RING is its stability. In the end, it’s the category’s best software.”

EDF analyzed many alternatives when it was time to replace a legacy tape-based storage system, which was plagued by bouts of debilitating days-long downtime. Key decision factors included the need for bulletproof product stability, always-on availability, limitless scalability, and low TCO. The energy-producing giant quickly adopted Scality RING as the optimal solution, beating out EMC Isilon and IBM Spectrum Scale upon rigorous testing.

“Limitless scale-out file and object storage, strong data security and compliance, web-scale system management, and low TCO via flexible software-defined architecture are at the very heart of Scality RING,” said Erwan Menard, president and COO, Scality. “These are key to providing very large enterprises, like EDF, with the peace-of-mind that they can easily grow storage capacity without limit or interruption as they support multiple use cases across organizations.”

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