Scality RING Reviews

Name: Scality RING
Brand: Scality
Rating: 4 (4 reviews)

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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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Scality RING is the #13 ranked solution in top File and Object Storage solutions and #16 ranked solution in top Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions. PeerSpot users give Scality RING an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Scality RING is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure: Scality RING vs Microsoft Azure. Scality RING is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 66% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 18% of all views.

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Guillaume Lapouge

Cloud Architect at Claranet France

Feb 26, 2024

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 backups I like UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing. Another feature I…

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OlivierLE PENRU

System Engineer at Experis

Sep 28, 2022

The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface 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. I have been using Scality RING8 for approximately three years. Scality…

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reviewer1242105

Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Dec 11, 2019

I'm starting to work on a project now with ScaleIO. The engineering team suggests migrating to Red Hat Ceph. I don't know yet what their reasons are, but that was the information I got two weeks ago. I am now starting to look for information comparing the products. For the project I'm working on now, we need block storage, so Scality is not an option in this case. Scality is used for object storage and here we are talking about another solution for block storage. Today we are using ScaleIO, which engineering recommends. It's a common thing to migrate to Red Hat Ceph.

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Scality RING market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of Scality RING in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category stands at 4.1%, marking an increase of 69.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"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."

Room for Improvement

"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."

Pricing

"The initial cost (CAPEX) to set up the infrastructure is expensive due to the specific hardware required."
"The cost of Scality RING8 could be less expensive. It is difficult for smaller businesses to afford it."

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