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  • "The cost of Scality RING8 could be less expensive. It is difficult for smaller businesses to afford it."
  • "The initial cost (CAPEX) to set up the infrastructure is expensive due to the specific hardware required."
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    Top Answer:Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency.
    Top Answer:It's a very good product, but for large-scale usage, it has limitations. Scality RING's lack of extensive testing and potential hidden limitations. While Scality provides precise architecture… more »
    Top Answer:I work with Scality RING for storage, and we have a concrete strategy to offer it to business customers. Many customers use it for different purposes, but a common use case is for user computer… more »
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    Overview

    FormationOne is a Dynamic Storage Platform that delivers hyper-scale storage capacity, with excellent cost savings, agility and elasticity. Automation, self-service and API level integration deliver multi-tenant private cloud capabilities for your data center, running on your choice of industry-standard hardware. FormationOne runs on x86 server nodes that virtualize all the elements of enterprise data storage with a loosely-coupled, fully-distributed architecture. FormationOne includes key differentiated capabilities including QoS performance control and Continuous Data Protection (CDP) integrated with Copy Data Management that maximize performance, improve controls, and lower your TCO. FormationOne provides remote replication and data mobility with SafeGuard for replicating between Formation Cloud Domains as well as replication into AWS S3 or Glacier for Cloud DR, Backup, Archive and tiering.

    Scality RING object storage enables enterprises and cloud service providers to run petabyte-scale, data-rich services like web applications, VOD, active archives, compliance archives, and private storage clouds. The RING is software, so you can deploy it on standard x86 servers of your choice, taking advantage of server and media innovation over time. Acting as a single, distributed system, the RING can scale linearly across thousands of servers, multiple sites, and an unlimited number of objects. Data is protected with policy-based replication, erasure coding, and geo-distribution, achieving up to 14 9s of durability and 100% availability.
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    FormationOne Dynamic Storage Platform is ranked 31st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while Scality RING is ranked 16th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. FormationOne Dynamic Storage Platform is rated 0.0, while Scality RING is rated 7.8. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scality RING writes "Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing ". FormationOne Dynamic Storage Platform is most compared with , whereas Scality RING is most compared with Dell ECS, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Qumulo and Cloudian HyperStore.

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