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"Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency.""The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface.""I think it's the economic factor. This solution has the lowest cost for storage systems."

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"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system.""Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas.""With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node.""Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time.""The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider.""The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are ​very I/O ​intensive."

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"Scality RING is not easy to learn for someone new. It is a little bit difficult. There are a lot of components to it, and you also need to understand them to work with it effectively.""Scality RING8 could improve by having more features. We have to use two automation tools to meet our needs. We would prefer to use only one.""When we used this solution in 2015, it was not scalable at all. I don't know if they have improved on that, but at the time, scalability was just horrible."

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"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release.""he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production.""Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy.""It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete.""I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them.""At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."

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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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  • "It provides us with a significant reduction in TCO due to their pay-as-you-grow licensing model, which means we don’t have to pay upfront for hardware and licensing for capacity thStorPoolat we don’t yet need to use."
  • "StorPool's pricing and licensing model is very transparent. As always, one has to due his due diligence when choosing a product like distributed storage solutions."
  • "StorPool software is cost-effective and gives us a pricing advantage over our competitors."
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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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    Scality RING, RING8
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    Overview
    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.

    StorPool is intelligent storage software that runs on standard servers and builds scalable, high-performance storage system out of these servers (software-defined storage). It focuses on the block-level storage and excels at it. It is incredibly flexible and can be deployed in both converged setups (on compute nodes, alongside VMs and applications) or on separate storage nodes.

    StorPool has advanced fully-distributed architecture and is arguably the fastest and most efficient block-storage software on the market today. It is the best storage system when building a cloud.

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    Comcast, TimeWarner Cable, EuroSport, Orange, Deluxe, DailtMotion, SFR, RTL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Telstra
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    Computer Software Company19%
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    Government6%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Government8%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business86%
    Large Enterprise14%
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    Small Business36%
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    Scality RING is ranked 16th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews while StorPool is ranked 21st in Software Defined Storage (SDS). Scality RING is rated 7.8, while StorPool is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Scality RING writes "Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorPool writes "Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency". Scality RING is most compared with Dell ECS, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Qumulo and Cloudian HyperStore, whereas StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, LINBIT SDS, StarWind Virtual SAN and DataCore SANsymphony.

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