{"id":657,"date":"2021-03-26T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/data-storage\/?p=657"},"modified":"2021-03-26T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:10:12","slug":"scality-updates-ring8-for-enhanced-business-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/data-storage\/scality-updates-ring8-for-enhanced-business-continuity\/","title":{"rendered":"Scality Updates RING8 for Enhanced Business Continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ScalityScality <\/span>recently announced<\/span><\/a> it has strengthened its scale-out file system (SOFS) and streamlined management and monitoring of its RING8 file and object storage system. These enhancements come in response to the demand for \u201calways-on\u201d business continuity and data protection to get the most out of enterprise and service provider cloud deployments, while also maintaining a low total cost of ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our <\/span><\/span>Buyer\u2019s Guide for Data Storage<\/i><\/b><\/a> helps you evaluate the best solution for your use case and features profiles of the leading providers, as well as a category overview of the marketplace.<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

Scality<\/span><\/a> is a venture-backed software provider that delivers large-scale storage management and infrastructure solutions. The vendor\u2019s flagship solution, RING, makes x86 servers scale to hundreds of petabytes and billions of objects. Additionally, RING has an end-to-end parallel architecture and a patented object storage core that increases availability and durability. The platform integrates with applications through standard storage protocols such as NFS, S3, OpenStack Swift, and Cinder. Scality offers its services to telecommunications and media companies throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n

This release delivers significant operational enhancements for production deployments at petabyte scale. IT offers geo-distributed solutions for intensive file-based application workloads and simplifies tasks for storage administrators with \u201cpoint-and-click\u201d functionality.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a press statement, Paul Speciale, chief product officer at Scality, said, \u201cgiven the rapid growth of data and the rising costs of storing and managing data at petabyte scale and beyond, Scality has invested significantly in further simplifying and reducing the operating costs of RING. We offer the only integrated scale-out file system in an object storage solution, and we will continue to innovate to meet our customers\u2019 changing needs at a price they can afford.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

With the new RING8 updates, other benefits include:<\/span><\/p>\n