Kemp Technologies Enhancing Availability and Performance of Scality Ring

Kemp Technologies, Inc. announced a technology integration with Scality SA.

By combining the top-rated Kemp LoadMaster load balancer and Scality RING, customers will benefit from added security, availability and optimization for their cloud storage and unstructured data management needs.

As enterprises adopt cloud-first narrative to become more agile, they also need a manageable cloud storage that ensures smooth delivery of applications’ content. RING is a scale-out object storage that delivers petabyte-scale SDS designed to support cloud native mobile apps, edge cloud portals and SaaS offerings.

“Our integration with Scality enables joint customers to achieve highly scalable storage environments to support availability, security and compliance for critical application data. When deployed along with Scality RING SDS, Kemp load balancers simplify SLA satisfaction, minimize downtime and maximize scalability,” says Jason Dover, VP of product strategy, Kemp.

Always-on Application Experience for Scality RING resources
LoadMaster, deployed in front of RING, provides a key connection point and load balancing functions for applications and users. It distributes traffic across the nodes to ensure efficient use of RING resources. Also, by using health-checking, should any node go offline due to maintenance or outage, Kemp redistributes traffic enabling an always-on application experience.

“Setting up Kemp and getting it working the Scality platform was hassle free. The overall functionality and features we got with the Kemp load balancers work very well, and we are planning on expanding offering more services via the platform,” says Kevin Koelmeyer, CTO and head of managed services, The Somerville Group Pty Ltd.

LoadMaster provides RING customers with:

• HA: Delivers uninterrupted access to data stored on RING. Advanced application-level health checking features ensure the Scality nodes are healthy and ready to accept connections. 
• Site Resilience: Global Server Load Balancing (GEO) ensures traffic is distributed based on proximity which reduces latency and provides better performance. In the event of a complete site failure, LoadMaster directs all traffic to a healthy datacenter.
• Performance: SSL/TLS offloading increases performance by terminating secure connections on the LoadMaster and sending traffic back to Scality unencrypted. This configuration eliminates the encryption processing overhead on the Scality nodes by transferring it onto the LoadMaster, which is optimized to handle this traffic.
• QoS: LoadMaster includes QoS controls to rate limit connections to RING providing control over fair and balanced allocation of services for applications and users.

Resources:

• Learn more about load balancing RING 
• Get the solution brief
• Scality Ring Deployment Guide