RING FROM SCALITY
Scality- modernize data storage solution with world-class software
The proliferation of data continues to fuel the move to the cloud and object-based storage (OBS). Enterprises must modernize their storage to keep pace with the growth of data. IDC forecasts that by 2025, the global datasphere will grow to 163 zettabytes – 80 percent of which is estimated to be unstructured.2 That’s 10 times the 16.1 ZB of generated data in 2016.
This massive amount of data needs to be stored and accessible for diverse needs across the enterprise, from the retrieval of relevant prior radiologic images for patient care to content distribution for entertainment, and across the span of web, cloud, and Internet of Things (IoT). And all this has to be accomplished while keeping costs in check.
However, making the decision to move to object-based storage is only the beginning.
- How do you choose the right storage solution for your organizational needs?
- How do you choose the solution that allows you to integrate the many different kinds of data your organization uses and provides a secure, simple-to-manage, highly flexible and eminently scalable environment?
Have you considered the following six factors for a cloud-ready solution that’s flexible enough to handle your object and file storage needs?
Factor #1: Software-Defined Storage – the solution that is totally software-based and installable on your choice of x86-based Linux servers — eliminating the prospect of being locked into a single vendor.
Factor #2: Complete Cloud Integration – The cloud is part of an enterprise IT strategy today and will be into the future. Public, private and multi-cloud solutions are the norm, and managing resources, utilization and customer satisfaction falls on the “as-a-service” IT departments that must coordinate it all. To leverage the full power of data, storage needs to be agile; keeping data available to multiple applications across departments, throughout the enterprise and across multiple storage venues; i.e., multiple clouds.
Factor #3: Multiple Storage Protocol Compatibility – Storage that preserves native file formats without relying on gateways broadens the value of data, enabling multiple paths of access and allowing in-cloud compute resources to act on the data.
Factor #4: Efficient, Self-Healing Data Protection – Prevent system failures from resulting in data loss, you need a storage system with built-in self-healing technology. This allows the system to rebuild itself without any intervention even when multiple drives fail — which becomes more likely as the amount of data stored swells into the petabytes.
Factor #5: Seamless System Security and Compliance – Enable a comprehensive multi-tenancy and identity management mechanism, such as the AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) model. The bottom line is that you keep the keys to the kingdom.
Factor #6: A Proven Track Record in Object-Based Storage – Evaluating OBS vendors, look for those with a documented track record. The vendor should supply you with proven examples of successful implementations and good market traction for its solution.
Ring from Scality – Deliver agile, scalable and cost-effective storage for an ever-increasing amount of unstructured data
Any-to-Any Performance
RING offers superior performance over legacy storage and object-based systems. It ensures high throughput and low latency across small and large files through its unique any-to- any performance capabilities. The platform’s access and storage layers can scale independently from as few as three to thousands of servers, all of which can be accessed directly and concurrently. RING Connectors scale performance nearly linearly.
- FILE AND OBJECT PERFORMANCE: horizontally scale connectors to achieve 10’s of gigabytes per second throughput
- READ-AHEAD CACHE FOR SEQUENTIAL IOS: System detects sequential access patterns and repeatedly doubles the amount of data fetched into
- CACHE STRIPING OPTIMIZATION FOR SMALL FILE RANDOM IO: System by default reads only the requested number of bytes into cache (avoids fetching whole stripes—unless sequential access detected).
Security
Scality RING features data encryption, volume and bucket data protection, data restorative versioning, extended location control for data sovereignty, and geo-replication for disaster recovery.
| THREAT | SCALE RING FEATURE | BENEFIT |
| Ransomware | File/Object versioning, Volume Protect | Maintain prior versions from before the ransomware impact. Lock access to data so ransomware cannot impact. |
| Disaster-driven shut down | Asynchronous Replication for Files and Objects | Provide redundant copies of data across different data centers—for both files and objects. |
| Customer Privacy Violation | Secure Access Control Lists and Identity and Access Management Interfaces | Secure data access integrated into with your corporate AD system |
| Internal or External based data hacking | Secure data encryption IAM & Federated authentication | Object Data encryption at rest. Store data with strong, industry-standard cryptographic algorithms so that data, even stolen, is useless to hackers. |
| Data Sovereignty non-compliance | Location Control IAM & Federated authentication | Limit Object Data to specific RINGs located in different regions |
| GDPR | S3 API, S3 User Metadata, S3 IAM Policies, S3 Tags, S3 Auth v4, S3 Bucket encryption at rest, IAM & Federated authentication, Audit Log | Right to Access, Right to be Forgotten, Privacy by Design, Data Breach Notifications, Data Protection Impact Assessment, Data Processing Agreement |
Scality Use Cases
The RING enables both data-rich custom and packaged applications aggregating multiple applications into a single storage environment. This eliminates silos, drives increased utilization, and creates cloud-like economies of scale. The RING supports use cases across many industries, including service providers, media & entertainment, public sector, financial services, healthcare, and R&D-intensive industries like manufacturing and research.
Backup and Archive Scality enables organizations to build petabyte-scale active archives that have all the performance benefits of online storage at a cost point comparable to tape. Scality RING supports standards-based compliance archiving with more than 60 validated ISVs.
Content Distribution Scality enables organizations to build scalable distribution infrastructures that meet all the performance requirements for high definition media streaming at a fraction of the cost of storage at CDN providers and enables non-linear models such as nDVR/nPVR and VoD. With Zenko, Scality provides a single interface for developers to code within any cloud on a common API set. You can write an application once and deploy anywhere on any cloud.
Medical Archives Scality stores electronic protected health information (ePHI), keeping it safe and seamlessly available. This matter; perhaps more in healthcare than anywhere, because patient care is at stake. Data storage is central to the practical, operational and regulatory demands to creating and sharing patient data and is central to compliance–and quality patient care.
Media Nearline Archive Make your media post-production workflow more efficient with Scality RING offloading costly SAN and increase productivity by enabling media processing (such as video transcoding) in-place.
Public Cloud Store more, reliably, for less. Scality’s 100% availability guarantee and robust durability options, combined with cloud-style economies that it brings make Scality RING the ideal storage for cloud service providers. The RING provides nearly unbounded capacity that scales without downtime, so end customers see no loss of availability.
Private and Hybrid Cloud Scality provides a ubiquitous storage platform with file and object, storage capabilities with a substantially lower TCO through unbundling of software and hardware, a wide range of standard x86 server options, and high durability with low overhead.