Scality Growing Momentum With Cisco

Scality, Inc. announced its growing momentum with Cisco Systems, Inc., with which the company is a long-standing data center partner.

Scality RING software-defined storage on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) high-density servers is being deployed in more enterprises, across more use cases, proving-out the great potential that was reinforced when Scality was elevated to Cisco Solutions Plus Partner and added to Cisco’s Global Price List (GPL) in 2017.

“Customers are the proof points, and we’re seeing an acceleration in deployments of storage solutions using Cisco UCS servers and Scality RING,” said Siva Sivakumar, Cisco’s senior director, data center solutions. “Our Cisco Validated Designs and solution bundles with Scality are making it easy for partners to quote and deliver scale-out storage systems that converge storage of data from both object and file-based applications and grow easily from 200TB to beyond petabytes.“

Baystate Health is an example of one of those customers that was dealing with massive amounts of data. Their storage for medical imaging x-rays, MRIs and more was growing at ever-faster rates, so when their 7-year-old traditional storage platform was slated for replacement, scalable, performant and easy-to-manage were high on the modernization requirements list.

They worked with RoundTower Technologies LLC and consultants from VertitechIT, Inc., who, having worked with Scality and Cisco before, could see clearly that Scality RING should lead the transformation. They leveraged the knowledge gained from past success with Scality to bring in a Scality RING software-defined storage solution built on Cisco servers, and now count Baystate Health among their happy customers.  And faster time to care makes practitioners and patients happy.

“We take our IT seriously, because the stakes are, clearly, high in healthcare,” said Baystate Health’s senior IT director and CTO, Dave Miller. “When the time came for us to replace rethink, really our medical imaging storage, we saw Scality’s leadership position with Gartner as a huge plus. That, the solid data resiliency and availability and other successful reference deployments for similar use cases, as well as the flexibility to handle multiple workloads all tipped the scale toward RoundTower’s Cisco/Scality solution. TCO matters, too, and the overall value of the Cisco UCS and Scality RING solution is truly impressive.“

“Solving today’s challenges for our healthcare customers centers on critical data availability and accommodating massive data growth and long retention of medical data,” offered Craig Manahan, practice manager, DCI, RoundTower technologies, LLC. “The pre-validated and tested Scality and Cisco solutions make designing, quoting and deployment easy. Scality RING is a storage solution that’s flexible, easy to maintain, and easy to grow at any scale required to meet our customers’ business goals over the long term.  We’re really pleased to have Scality RING on Cisco UCS storage in our portfolio.“

The need for software-defined solutions for unstructured data extends far beyond medical imaging and healthcare. Around the globe, Scality and Cisco are winning together and adding many new customers (and expanding those deployments) with multiple use cases.

From Thailand to the United States to Estonia, both companies are addressing a variety of use cases like backup and archive for one of the largest banks in the world, email messaging for one of the biggest service providers in the world, video on demand for a local government in the US, video surveillance for a national government agency and more.

Through a network of channel partners, the partners together offer an infinitely-scalable storage solution for unstructured data that combines RING software-defined storage with UCS servers, automation for easy deployment and Cisco Solution Support. With the power of the UCS management framework, the combined solution is cost-effective to deploy, easy to manage and will enable the next-generation cloud deployments that drive business agility, lower operational costs and eliminate vendor lock-in. And, all of this solution enrichment is becoming easier to deploy and manage with a series of solution bundles available on Cisco’s GPL for an appliance-like experience.

Visit Scality at Cisco Partner Summit in Las Vegas, NV, in the Cisco Partner Hub on November 14.