What is Scality?
Scality is a software-defined, distributed file and object storage platform designed for large-scale, on-premises deployments. It enables enterprises and cloud service providers to build petabyte-scale storage infrastructure using commodity off-the-shelf x86 servers and disks.
Key capabilities and benefits of Scality include:
- Unified file, object, and application storage services accessed through file, object, and custom application interfaces
- End-to-end data protection with replication, erasure coding, and self-healing
- Any hardware support - mix different server and drive types in the same cluster
- Policy-driven automated tiering across flash, SSD, HDD, cloud, and tape storage
- Multi-tenancy and quality of service (QoS) controls for isolation and performance
- Scale-out capability to petabytes of capacity and billions of objects or files
- Native integration with Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and on-prem apps via standard interfaces
Overall, Scality enables cost-effective, software-defined storage at any scale on standardized hardware recognized by enterprise IT organizations.