Cloud Computing: Scality believes The RING will solve enterprise storage problems

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Dan Kusnetzsky.

Jerome Lecat, CEO of Scality, spoke with me about his view of the future of software defined storage and how enterprises should be thinking about it now. Scality believes that enterprises should start thinking about and planning for tools that could, in the company’s words, "route data to and from individual users in the most scalable, efficient way possible."

Scality developed Scality RING that is designed to address the growing challenge enterprises face in dealing with rapidly growing, huge (petabyte scale) storage requirements that include both structured and non-structured data. Here’s how the company describes RING:   The RING is a software-based storage that is built to scale to petabytes with performance, scaling and protection mechanisms appropriate for such scale. It enables your business to grow without limitations and extra overhead, works across 80% of your applications, and protects your data over 200% more efficiently at 50-70% lower cost…

The company goes on to discuss that RING combines the features of traditional network attached storage, object storage, tape and scale-out VM storage. They also discuss how this technology could support an enterprise cloud, distributed computing platform, Web and Cloud services, content distribution and active archives.  Here’s how the company presents the capabilities of RING:..

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