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Scality announced RING9
November 2022 by Marc Jacob
Scality announced RING9 — the ninth generation of its leading RING scale-out file and object storage software — a solution that allows IT teams to build and run a modern hybrid-cloud data storage infrastructure with higher performance and efficiency.
RING9 is built on major investments in Scality’s flagship RING solution that enables IT teams to:
Fully leverage flash media through tiering and dynamic data protection policies.
Modernise monitoring stack with Prometheus tools and APIs
Streamline integration with API extensions to ecosystem partners such as Veeam and VMware Cloud Director (VCD)
With these new capabilities, RING9 further enhances and simplifies scale-out file and object storage for enterprises building private and hybrid cloud storage services with comprehensive AWS S3 and IAM compatibility.
Building on proven world-class enterprise and service provider deployments since 2010, RING9 enhancements are focused on:
High performance and storage efficiency: RING9 augments its use of the latest generations of flash media through the Storage Accelerator (SA), a powerful multi-level tiering capability. This enables dynamic tiering and data protection policies for ultra-fast IO to hot storage tiers via low-latency NVMe flash — with automated movement of data to increasingly more cost-effective tiers on lower-cost flash, such as quad-level cell (QLC), or on traditional hard disk drives (HDD). These enhancements expand the addressable markets and use cases for RING9, and enable IT teams to address Tier 1, latency-sensitive workloads in media streaming, medical imaging and big data analytics that previously required a separate resource.
Modern stack administration: RING9 brings monitoring into the modern cloud-native data centre, with the integration of a new stack based on Prometheus and AlertManager, a new comprehensive UI dashboard with user actionable alerting. In addition, the Scality Cloud Monitor now enhances remote monitoring and observability for both customers and Scality’s premium Scale Care Services support offerings.
Ecosystem integration: RING9 streamlines the integration of its ecosystem partner products into a customer’s architecture, with support for:
New APIs for enhanced monitoring, reporting and data placement in solutions from ecosystem partners such as Veeam and others
Enhanced VMware vCloud (vCD) integration, including production use in existing real-world service provider deployments
More comprehensive AWS IAM-compatible bucket policies to tighten security and access control
