Scality RING8 SDS Solution for Large-Scale On-Premises Storage of Unstructured Data

Scality S.A. announced RING8 software-defined solution for large-scale on-premises storage of unstructured data.

The latest generation of the company’s product brings business agility, resiliency and efficiency to organizations facing storage and orchestration challenges at petabyte-scale and beyond, across multiple clouds, and core-and-edge environments.

In addition to the brand eXtended Data Management (XDM) tool, integrating cloud data orchestration into the RING, key features of RING8 also include enhancements to RING’s security, multi-tenancy and cloud-native application support designed for enterprises and service providers looking to ensure BC, boost productivity and gain competitive advantage.

“RING8 takes Scality’s value proposition to the next level with its holistic core-to-edge and hybrid cloud data management play,” said Amita Potnis, research director, infrastructure systems, platforms and technologies group, IDC.

Celebrating its tenth anniversary this month, the company has the expertise to understand data challenges and to develop and deploy solutions that work to resolve them.

“I would have never thought that ten years could go so fast! We created Scality, convinced that Global 2000 enterprises, Cloud providers and governments would need access to cloud technologies to deliver best in class service to their customers and citizens. That was ten years ago, and it is now a reality. We continue to help them scale data with cost-effective, highly-reliable solutions, and our software serves hundreds of millions of people around the world. Our customers are doing amazing-and diverse-things with high-value data: providing personalized services in airports and sports arenas; leveraging healthcare data, whether patient data for treatment today, or genomics and pharmaceutical data research for the future; optimizing news and entertainment media processing and distribution, and much more,” said Jérôme Lecat, founder and CEO, Scality. “We understand the value of that data, and bring cutting-edge solutions for the complex data orchestration that has to take place as organizations break silos at the same time that they are deploying and leveraging a mix of their own on-premises private clouds and use services in public clouds, as well as in key regional and specialized clouds. We believe in continuous improvement, and the new features in RING8 respond to evolving customer needs-the kind that affect their success.“

“In today’s hybrid cloud reality, RING8 brings the features that enable enterprises to manage unstructured data better, resulting in the ability to optimize its value to the organization,” said Patrick Osborne, VP and GM, big data and secondary storage, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP.

RING8 was developed to solve the complexities that come with today’s growing hybrid cloud data trends driven by edge computing. The increase in enterprise and public clouds for core workloads, and the proliferation of data generation and use at the edge drive ever more complex data management challenges. These challenges demand solutions to store, govern and orchestrate massive volumes of data across geographies and clouds.

Next-gen SDS, RING8, brings enhancements
critical to managing valuable data in distributed data world:

• Enhanced security with role-based access control (RBAC), support for Key Management Systems (KMS) over KMIP 1.2 API, and SAML/Active Directory integration

• Enhanced multi-tenancy for service providers including S3 based quotas for STaaS and AWS IAM Bucket Policies (previously user/group policies)

• Support for cloud-native and legacy applications including AWS S3 bucket lifecycle transition API (XDM) and bucket notification API, OpenStack Swift API (Queens compatible) and support for NFS v4

• RING8 eXtended Data Management (XDM) integrates data management across multiple RINGs (as in edge/core configurations) and brings public and private cloud data management and governance capabilities for hybrid- and multi-cloud infrastructures, providing a global metadata namespace and search across RING and public clouds, data mobility across RING and clouds with lifecycle tiering and 1-M replication, and more.