Scality, which develops AWS S3-compliant object storage technology, is best known for its software-defined storage capabilities, but is recently deploying its first hardware appliance to meet the needs of turnkey system consumers.
Scality, software developer of Object Garage, on Wednesday unveiled its first hardware device, which it says will meet the desires of channel partners and consumers for a turnkey device to purchase and experience in Veeam Software environments.
Concurrent with this launch, Scality unveiled its first two-tier distribution program, with Reston, Virginia-based Carahsoft as its first designated distributor.
Scariality launched its turnkey object garage device comes a week after the company revealed the promotion of Eric LeBlanc as the new vice president of global channel sales and general manager of its Artesca business.
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Scality offers a generation of software-defined storage that can turn servers from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco Systems and Supermicro into storage devices, as well as virtual versions of their appliances for VMware environments, said Wally MacDermid, vice president of strategic alliances for the San Francisco-based company. company. company headquartered in the company.
However, MacDermid told CRN that demand for turnkey devices, Scality’s Amazon Web Services S3-compatible object storage software, prompted the company to bring the device to market.
“So in addition to a software appliance and a VMware version of our Artesca product, which is our channel-friendly, high-volume object storage software, we have been asked by customers and channel partners to have a pre-installed hardware appliance available as well,” he said. “And so that’s why we are unveiling the third option for people who want to buy Artesca.”
Before launching its own Artesca-branded object storage devices, Scality partnered with HPE, Cisco and Supermicro to supply the software that can simply be loaded onto those vendors’ servers and sold through their channels to enterprises for an included device, MacDermid said.
“But many other people appreciate the ease of use of a turnkey device,” he said. “They get anything in their facility, plug in some wires and get it up and running in minutes,” he said. “We paint with a third-party integrator, Arrow Intelligent Solutions. They do the same with other vendors in our space.
These devices are manufactured through Arrow Intelligent Solutions in the U. S. and Europe and are advertised by several IT distributors, including Carahsoft, MacDermid said.
The new Artesca devices are currently available only for controlled data environments and through Veeam Software, founded in Columbus, Ohio, he said.
“So there’s going to be a ransomware coverage message, because ransomware is becoming more prevalent,” he said. “In organizations of all sizes, users want a ransomware coverage solution. With the cloud, you can use Veeam and Commvault and all those other backup applications and you can send your knowledge to the cloud. But if you want a quick fix in case of a ransomware attack, you want a local device. That’s what drives a big component of Artesca’s story.
The Scality problem in Veeam environments is due to the company’s ransomware, especially with the release of Veeam 12, MacDermid said.
“With Veeam 12, which Veeam introduced earlier this year, they now have the core functionality level and the capability level,” he said. “Before this year, the level of functionality was not opposed to the garage. Veeam is one of the first third-party providers of programs to elevate the object garage to “first-class citizen. “This creates a great opportunity for Scality and other item garage vendors. I mean, Veeam [says it has] 450,000 consumers. That’s a lot of consumers who are focused on ransomware coverage and are looking for a single seller to supply them with all of their garage layers.
For corporations with jumbo object storage needs, the Scality Artesca software-defined storage edition and VMware virtual appliance scale as the underlying hardware allows, MacDermid said. However, the new purpose-built Artesca devices have only 3 constant capabilities and must be obtainable in one- or three-node editions, making scalability limited, he said.
In the future, Scality would potentially introduce turnkey devices for non-Veeam environments, MacDermid said.
Scality Artesca’s new turnkey garage appliances can be obtained only through channel partners, who can order them through Carahsoft or other designated distributors, he said.
It’s wonderful to see a breakthrough in visitor selection for Scality’s object garage technology,” said Daniel Alonso, Flagler technologist, solutions provider and MSP in Boca Raton, Florida, and spouse of Scality and Veeam.
“Some consumers are looking for all-in-one devices, turnkey offerings with the software already integrated,” Alonso told CRN. “Scality focuses on software-defined storage, but gives consumers choice. “
Although Scality’s object garage can scale as much as consumers need, subject to the limitations of the hardware it’s installed on, the appliances and their smaller capacities still meet the needs of visitors, Alonso said.
Scality has a proven track record across a wide range of visitor use cases, he said.
“Object storage is important for storing files and metadata so that modern aps can use it to query data without the clumsiness of traditional file systems,” he said. “And it’s secure, immutable storage. It gives customers a much better TCO and faster return on investment compared to renting capacity forever from Amazon.”