Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
Focus on object storage provides service providers with key ingredient to build storage clouds
Vendor: Scality
Category: Object storage
Product: Ring Organic Storage
Why it makes our list: Owns the technology providers need to power storage
clouds
Scality’s
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Organic Storage offers service providers a key ingredient for building storage clouds: object
storage. Scality has a few large European providers as customers, and is making a push in the
U.S. after moving its corporate headquarters to San Francisco. Scality claims its latest version of
Ring Organic Storage can handle billions of files and hundreds of thousands of objects per second,
and positions it as a cloud platform for email, file sharing, video
and photo storage. Scality calls its software Ring because it sets up a cluster -- or ring -- of
nodes on commodity servers, and each node manages a piece of the data storage environment. The
vendor has raised $13 million in funding since spinning out of Bizanga in 2008. Its prospects will
rise if storage
clouds catch on, although it faces competition from products from more mature vendors such as
Caringo’s CAStor, DataDirect Networks’ Web Object Scaler (WOS), Dell’s DX Object Storage, EMC’s
Atmos and NetApp’s StorageGrid.
This was first published in August 2011
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