Scality Awarded US Patent for Technology in Hyperscale Data Protection

Scality, Inc.‘s experience in distributed file systems and object storage has resulted in a US patent (11,061,928) that empowers customers to recover from any disaster or ransomware attack with increased precision.

This innovation provides the technical basis for enabling snapshots at massive scale, with the ability to capture billions of files in a single snapshot, leap-frogging the capacity of traditional NAS file systems by orders of magnitude.

Ransomware attacks now occur an average of every 11s globally. Snapshot technology is useful as part of a ransomware recovery strategy, especially as large enterprises with massive data capacities are susceptible to these attacks. However, while most snapshot technology works reasonably well at normal levels of capacity and scale, it’s not viable for massive numbers of files and high frequency of snapshots necessary for today and tomorrow’s needs. The company‘s patented snapshot technology enables scale for billions of files and multi-petabyte data requirements. This will enable data management solutions that are more reliable, efficient and easy to use at petabyte scale.

Patent validates and builds including:

• Distributed solutions that grow without limit and are inherently redundant to provide resiliency.

• Data protection solutions: The company was an early leader in providing self-healing, erasure-coding and advanced capabilities including file system and object storage versioning, data immutability and volume protection.

• Data availability solutions: The firm delivers innovations in multi-site storage that provides continuous data availability under all conditions, with zero RPO and RTO, and the lowest possible storage overhead.

• Multicloud data management: The company was the first to introduce a multicloud data management software solution (Zenko), which is used across the firm‘s products and in third-party storage and cloud solutions.

Giorgio Regni, CTO said: “Scality’s continued innovation in data protection and data management technology advances the state of the art in the storage industry and more importantly, provides the foundation for new and enhanced produ,. Our customers can feel confident that our solutions are making data management more reliable and efficient than ever before.“

Randy Kerns, senior strategist and analyst, The Evaluator Group, said: “Protecting customer data in a world of increasing malware, ransomware and other cybersecurity threats is critical for storage providers. Scality continues to push the envelope with innovations for protecting data at massive scale, as demonstrated by its new US patent for snapshot technology. This promises to be a key foundation for enabling future ransomware protection solutions.“

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Blog: Latest patent underscores Scality’s track record of innovation.