Scality Explained

Scality
Type:Private
Founded:2009
Founders:Jérôme Lecat, Giorgio Regni, Daniel Binsfeld, Serge Dugas, Brad King
French Legal Entity:Société Anonyme
Industry:Information technology, data storage
Products:Software-defined storage (SDS) solutions RING and ARTESCA
Num Employees:210
Hq Location:San Francisco, California and Paris, France

Scality is a global technology provider of software-defined storage (SDS) solutions, specializing in distributed file and object storage with cloud data management. Scality maintains offices in Paris (France), London (UK), San Francisco and Washington DC (USA), and Tokyo (Japan) and has employees in 14 countries.

History

Scality was founded in 2009 by Jérôme Lecat, Giorgio Regni, Daniel Binsfeld, Serge Dugas, and Brad King.[1] [2]

Scality raised $7 million of venture capital funding in March 2011.[3] A C-round of $22 million was announced in June 2013, led by Menlo Ventures and Iris Capital with participation from FSN PME and all existing investors, including Idinvest Partners, OMNES Capital and Galileo Partners.[4] [5] [6] Scality raised $45 million in August 2015. This Series D funding was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from all existing investors and one new strategic investor, BroadBand Tower.[7] [8] [9] In 2016, HPE made a strategic investment[10] [11] in the company. In April, 2018, the company announced a $60 million round of funding.[12]

Scality announced a refreshed brand, along with a distribution agreement with Hewlett-Packard in October 2014.[13] Scality added Dell and Cisco Systems as resellers in 2015.[14] [15]

Products

RING

Scality's released the first version of its principal product, RING, in 2010.[16] The object storage software platform is a multitiered architecture and can scale up to thousands of servers and up to 100 petabytes under a single namespace.[17] Ring product depends on a keyspace calculated using a Monte Carlo simulation at install, spread across all of its node servers. While the company aims for the Ring to function without the need of any external management process, a Supervisor server is functionally required to kick-off data integrity operations and keep track of node state, while also providing a single source of truth for data about the ring itself. The Supervisor process is relatively lightweight and can be installed on a node server if required, but the company recommends it run separately from the Ring's constituent storage servers.

The Ring employs erasure coding schemes in multiples of six, which is the minimum number of storage nodes required to install a Ring. The underlying filesystem formatted on the storage drives is transparent to the Ring and it does not interact with filesystem operations directly. The Ring installer was originally written in Python for Saltstack, but then re-implemented closed-source.

Object storage was covered by trade press in 2017.[18]

Zenko

In 2017, Scality released Zenko, an open source multi-cloud data controller.[19] In 2018, Scality released a commercially supported version of Zenko.[20] Zenko integrates data managed on-premises with services available in public clouds.[21]

Zenko CloudServer (formerly Scality S3 Server) is an Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service-compatible open source object storage server.[22] The code is written in Node.js. It is a single instance running in a Docker container, and it uses Docker volumes for persistent storage. CloudServer uses the same code as the Scality RING S3 interface and includes an Apache 2.0 license. It is not a distributed system (that is the paid version, S3 for Enterprise). However, it does have the same level of compatibility as the S3 interface for the Scality RING. Zenko Orbit is a cloud-based portal for data placement, workflows, and global metadata search. The product enables asynchronous replication between clouds.[23]

Versions

Scality has been recognized consistently over the years for object-based storage by IDC.[31] [32] In Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage Scality was ranked a leader.[33] Scality was a 2014 storage system software finalist by Storage Magazine.[34] [35] In 2017, Scality was again ranked a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.[36]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Preimesberger . Chris . 2020-04-10 . Scality Software-Defined Storage: Product Overview and Insight . 2022-07-20 . eWEEK . en-US.
  2. Web site: Rink . Michael . 2019-06-27 . Scality RING8 Launched . 2022-07-20 . StorageReview.com . en-US.
  3. News: Wauters. Robin. Scality Raises $7 Million For Enterprise Cloud Storage System. 7 July 2014. Techcrunch. 25 February 2011.
  4. Web site: Mellor. Chris. VCs add Scality to give-'em-cash list: We liked it, put a RING on it. 7 July 2014. The Register. 9 Jul 2013.
  5. News: Grant. Rebecca. Software-defined storage startup Scality raises $22M from Menlo Ventures. 7 July 2014. Venturebeat. 9 July 2013.
  6. News: Harris. Derrick. Scale-out storage still matters as Scality raises $22M. 7 July 2014. Gigaom. 9 July 2013.
  7. Kepes. Ben. Scality picks up cash to software-ize all the storage things. 5 September 2015. Computerworld. 26 August 2015.
  8. News: Hall. Gina. Aiming for 2017 IPO, Object-based storage startup Scality raises $45 million. 5 September 2015. Silicon Valley Business Journal. 24 August 2015.
  9. News: Armstrong. Adam. Scality Raises Another $45 Million In Series D Funding. 5 September 2015. StorageReview.com. 24 August 2015.
  10. http://www.scality.com/about-us/press/scality-hpe-partnership-2016/
  11. Web site: Scality given $10m funds from partner HPE. Plans to polish RING. The Register. 12 January 2016. Chris. Mellor. 2017-03-21.
  12. News: Object Storage Provider Scality Banks $60 Million in VC Funding. eWEEK. 2018-05-18. en-US.
  13. Web site: Mellor. Chris. HP slips on Scality's RING, plans to flog it with ProLiant servers. 30 October 2014. The Register. 16 October 2014.
  14. News: Vizard. Mike. Dell to Ship Servers With Scality's Software Defined Storage. 5 September 2015. Data Center Knowledge. 19 August 2015.
  15. News: Mellor. Chris. Dell reselling Scality's RING for multi-petabyte data munching. 5 September 2015. The Register. 18 August 2015.
  16. Web site: Evans . Chris . 2021-04-27 . Scality Broadens Object Storage Adoption with ARTESCA . 2022-08-08 . Architecting IT . en-GB.
  17. Web site: SCALITY . datastorageasean.com.
  18. Web site: Scality guarantees 100% availability . The Register. 28 February 2017. Chris. Mellor. 2017-03-21.
  19. Web site: 2017-07-22 . Scality Launches Zenko, Open Source Software To Assure Data Control In A Multi-Cloud World . 2022-08-25 . insideBIGDATA . en-US.
  20. Web site: Scality Zenko 'multi-cloud controller' offers hybrid cloud boost . 2022-08-25 . ComputerWeekly.com . en.
  21. Web site: Yates . Parker . 2017-07-11 . SCALITY LAUNCHES ZENKO, OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE TO ASSURE DATA CONTROL IN A MULTI-CLOUD WORLD . 2022-08-25 . DevOps.com . en-US.
  22. Web site: Scality S3 Server - Scality Developer Hub. Scality S3 Server - Scality Developer Hub. en. 2017-03-21.
  23. News: Cloud Cornerstones: 19 New Ways To Connect Storage To AWS. Kovar. Joseph F.. 2018-01-31. CRN. 2018-05-18. en.
  24. News: Hernandez. Pedro. Scality Cloud Storage Update Delivers Native NFS Support. 26 July 2014. Enterprise Storage Forum. 10 October 2013.
  25. Web site: Mellor. Chris. Los Alamos National Laboratory likes it, puts Scality's RING on it. 7 July 2014. The Register. 1 July 2014.
  26. Web site: Mellor. Chris. Cloud-tailored Swift, RING jobs... Give it a REST, Scality. Oh good. 12 November 2014. The Register. 4 November 2014.
  27. News: Lelii. Sonia. Scality's Ring 5 shows up with remodeled interface and SMB support. 10 July 2015. TechTarget. 27 March 2015.
  28. News: Wheatley. Mike. Scality delivers 'Amazon EBS-like' VM storage with RING 5.0. 31 October 2014. SiliconAngle. 26 August 2014.
  29. Web site: Scality Announces RING 6.0. 2016-06-09. Top Storage News. 2017-03-21.
  30. Web site: Scality RING7 Secures Multiple-site File and Object Cloud Storage. June 2017. DigitalMediaWorld.tv. en-gb. 22 June 2017.
  31. Nadkarni. Ashish. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Object-Based Storage 2014 Vendor Assessment. December 2014. 13 January 2015.
  32. Web site: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Object-Based Storage 2016 Vendor Assessment. www.idc.com. 2017-03-21.
  33. News: Here's Who Made Gartner's 2016 Magic Quadrant For Distributed File Systems And Object Storage. Brown. Matt. 2016-11-03. CRN. 2017-03-21. en.
  34. Web site: Sliwa. Carol. Storage system software: 2014 Products of the Year finalists. 9 January 2015. Searchstorage.com. TechTarget. 13 January 2015.
  35. News: Sliwa. Carol. Best data storage products 2014: Products of the Year. 15 February 2015. Searchstorage.com. 9 February 2015.
  36. Web site: Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. www.gartner.com. 2018-05-18.

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