Type Private Website www.scality.com Number of employees 180 Founded 2009 CFO Philippe Mechanick | Products Scality RING Chief marketing officer Paul Turner Headquarters San Francisco President Erwan Menard | |
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Key people Jérôme Lecat, CEOGiorgio Regni, CTOErwan Menard, COOPhilippe Mechanick, CFOPaul Turner, CMO CEO Jerome Lecat (15 Feb 2010–) Profiles | ||
Scality ring petabyte scale software only storage solution
Scality is a global company based in San Francisco, California that develops software-defined object storage. The Scality RING is the company's commercial product; Scality also offers an open source S3 Server. Scality RING software deploys on industry-standard x86 servers to store objects and files.
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History
Scality was founded in 2009 by Jérôme Lecat, Giorgio Regni, Daniel Binsfeld, Serge Dugas, and Brad King.
Scality raised $7 million of venture capital funding in March 2011. 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. 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. In 2016, HPE made a strategic investment in the company.
Scality announced a refreshed brand, along with a global distribution agreement with HP in October 2014. Scality added Dell and Cisco as global resellers in 2015.
Products
Scality’s principal product is a scale-out object storage software platform known as the RING. Scality’s RING delivers petabyte-scale software-defined storage designed to use commodity hardware and characterized by cost-effective scaling, performance, and auto-recovery. Scality’s RING is a multitier architecture and can scale up to thousands of servers and many 100s of petabytes under a single global namespace. It allows customers to deploy both performance-optimized and capacity-optimized storage, varied data durability levels, and small to large object and file support in a single global namespace.Object Storage is one of the fastest growing segments of the Enterprise Storage Market. According to the IDC report “Worldwide File – and Object – Based Storage Forecast, 2016 – 2020” (IDC #US41685816, September 2016), it is estimated that object-based storage capacity is expected to grow at a CAGR of 30.7 percent from 2016 to 2020, reaching 293.7EB in 2020.The Scality RING is software that turns any standard x86 servers into web-scale storage. With the RING, you can store any amount of data, of any type, with incredible efficiency and 100% availability, guaranteed—all while reducing costs by as much as 90% over legacy systems.
The Scality S3 Server is an Amazon Web Services-compatible open source object storage server. 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. Scality S3 Server uses the same code as the Scality RING S3 interface and includes an Apache 2.0 license. Note, it’s not a distributed system (that’s the paid version, S3 for Enterprise). However, it does have the same level of compatibility as our S3 interface for the Scality RING.
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Scality has been recognized consistent;y over the years for object-based storage by IDC. In Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage . Scality was a 2014 storage system software finalist by Storage Magazine