Scality

Scality

Type	Private
Industry	Information technology, data storage
Founded	2009
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Key people	Jérôme Lecat, CEO Giorgio Regni, CTO Erwan Menard, COO Philippe Mechanick, CFO
Products	Scality RING
Number of employees	180
Website	www.scality.com

Scality is a software company based in San Francisco, California founded in 2009.^[1] Scality produces a software product called the RING for large scale data storage. Companies like Dailymotion use the RING for petabytes of video storage behind their consumer-facing web application.^[2] Los Alamos National Lab uses the RING as "home" storage for exabyte-scale supercomputer simulations.^[3] Comcast uses the RING as storage for billions of messages and attachments in their email service.

History

Refreshed Scality logo as of October 2014

Scality was founded in 2009 by Jérôme Lecat, Giorgio Regni, Daniel Binsfeld, Serge Dugas, and Brad King.

The company has received a total of over $92 million in venture capital funding.

Scality raised $7 million of Series B funding in March 2011.^[4] 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.^[5][6][7] 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.^[8][9][10]

Scality announced a refreshed brand, along with a global distribution agreement with HP in October 2014.^[11] Scality added Dell as a second global reseller in August 2015.^[12][13]

Products

The Scality RING is a software-based storage solution that runs on standard x86 servers and standard Linux with no kernel modifications. The RING uses an object storage core for scalable data management, a peer-to-peer architecture for reliable routing (based on the MIT CHORD algorithm), and shared-nothing parallelism for performance. It is designed for hundreds of petabytes of data, trillions of files, and continuous availability at scale, with the ability to serve the majority of storage workloads via file, object, and OpenStack-based interfaces.

Product enhancements

• Scality released version 4.2 of the RING software in October 2013, adding native file access protocols including NFS, SMB (CIFS), AFP, and FTP to its existing support of REST API access capabilities.^[14]
• Scality released version 4.3 of the RING software in July 2014, improving performance, adding replication options, and introducing a redesigned management GUI.^[15]
• In November 2014, Scality made generally available a plug-in for OpenStack Swift, enabling Swift-compatible applications to use the Scality RING as a storage backend without modification. Scality also released an open source driver that enables the creation of block storage volumes that can connect to CDMI-compatible storage backends.^[16]
• Scality released version 5.0 of the RING software in March 2015, simplifying installation and configuration, expanding Windows support, and improving video streaming and content distribution performance^[17][18]

External links

• Scality overview video
• Scality Twitter Handle
• Scality Facebook Page
• Scality LinkedIn Page
• Scality Youtube Channel
• Scality REST Block Driver
• Scality Home Page

Industry recognition

• Scality was recognized as the leader in object-based storage for 2014 by IDC. This marks the second year that Scality has been ranked among the market leaders.^[19]
• Scality was considered a 2014 Storage system software finalist by Storage Magazine^[20] and later won the Bronze Award. One of the judges said, "Object storage software appears to be [a] differentiating [factor] on performance and interfaces going forward, and Ring 5.0 appears to be leading the pack."^[21]

References

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2. Tweney, Dylan (16 June 2014). "Dailymotion bets on Scality for storing petabytes of video data". VentureBeat.com. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
3. Jackson, William (November 2014). "Big Data Vortex". InformationWeek. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
4. Wauters, Robin (25 February 2011). "Scality Raises $7 Million For Enterprise Cloud Storage System". Techcrunch. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
5. Mellor, Chris (9 Jul 2013). "VCs add Scality to give-'em-cash list: We liked it, put a RING on it". The Register. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
6. Grant, Rebecca (9 July 2013). "Software-defined storage startup Scality raises $22M from Menlo Ventures". Venturebeat. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
7. Harris, Derrick (9 July 2013). "Scale-out storage still matters as Scality raises $22M". Gigaom. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
8. Kepes, Ben (26 August 2015). "Scality picks up cash to software-ize all the storage things". Computerworld. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
9. Hall, Gina (24 August 2015). "Aiming for 2017 IPO, Object-based storage startup Scality raises $45 million". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
10. Armstrong, Adam (24 August 2015). "Scality Raises Another $45 Million In Series D Funding". StorageReview.com. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
11. Mellor, Chris (16 October 2014). "HP slips on Scality's RING, plans to flog it with ProLiant servers". The Register. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
12. Vizard, Mike (19 August 2015). "Dell to Ship Servers With Scality's Software Defined Storage". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
13. Mellor, Chris (18 August 2015). "Dell reselling Scality's RING for multi-petabyte data munching". TheRegister. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
14. Hernandez, Pedro (10 October 2013). "Scality Cloud Storage Update Delivers Native NFS Support". Enterprise Storage Forum. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
15. Mellor, Chris (1 July 2014). "Los Alamos National Laboratory likes it, puts Scality's RING on it". The Register. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
16. Mellor, Chris (4 November 2014). "Cloud-tailored Swift, RING jobs... Give it a REST, Scality. Oh good". The Register. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
17. Lelii, Sonia (27 March 2015). "Scality's Ring 5 shows up with remodeled interface and SMB support". TechTarget. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
18. Wheatley, Mike (26 August 2014). "Scality delivers 'Amazon EBS-like' VM storage with RING 5.0". SiliconAngle. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
19. Nadkarni, Ashish (December 2014). "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Object-Based Storage 2014 Vendor Assessment". Retrieved 13 January 2015.
20. Sliwa, Carol (9 January 2015). "Storage system software: 2014 Products of the Year finalists". Searchstorage.com. TechTarget. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
21. Sliwa, Carol (9 February 2015). "Best data storage products 2014: Products of the Year". Searchstorage.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.