Likelihood to Recommend Now that you have virtualized your server's CPU and memory resources, you should look to do the same for your storage. Separation of hardware and software has many added benefits not only for CPUs and memory but for storage as well. Without this solution, we would not have been able to afford black-box type SANs at every location. This allowed us to virtualize over 90% of the server environment saving costs and power consumption/cooling and provides all the features costly black-box SANs, including true-HA (which most SAN vendors don't have). Migration from variant SAN storage and using mixed back-end storage solutions is as easier than ever before because the storage being virtualized.
Read full review The team in charge of implementing Scality has to be full stack in order to guarantee the correct functioning of the entire system. However, you have to think very carefully about the balance between servers and disks, perhaps adopting smaller fully populated servers instead of large semi-populated servers, which would mean that over time our disk updates will not have a fully useful life.
Read full review Pros Fast pools should go to your most used data, and not static files. Redundancy is a must for all aspects of our IT jobs. Who wants to explain when there's no data? Works on Windows server 2012/2016 much better. Solid stability. Read full review I love the redundancy of the software. Read full review Cons Our needs are very small when compared to what this product can do. We don't use all of what it is capable of doing. Honestly, I have no cons. Read full review The overall packaging is not very good. I think it could be more efficient for installation. There are many components in storage servers. This can generally be complex to understand, you have to be patient. Read full review Likelihood to Renew I'm currently in the process of renewing my support.
Read full review Usability As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.
Read full review Support Rating In the 3 years I have been running this, I have contacted support around 4 or 5 times and that was for minor questions with exception of one time when I was performing an update on the system. And in that one time, they were very timely in assisting me with correcting the problem. Top notch customer support!
Read full review I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
Read full review Alternatives Considered DataCore is far easier to manage as well as deal with when it comes to hardware (as DataCore works with any hardware). It also seems way more affordable.
Read full review Due to the nature of our business we require extensive encryption and availability for sensitive customer data. The erasure encoding that Scality provides gives us the assurance that documents are rest are never in a state of being downloaded or available to a casual data thief. This is something that can be found with other vendors but at a fraction of the same cost. Having this kind of performance, availability and redundancy at the cost that Scality provides has made a large difference to our organization.
Read full review Return on Investment More uptime - Typical SANs have redundant controllers, redundant power supply's and can make the drives redundant by leveraging RAID-0, 5, 6, and 10. The claim to be HA but they are not. That is because if I spay water all over them or catch the SAN on fire, the storage will go down. With DataCore's solution we have identical systems (maybe even at different datacenters connected with long-haul-fiber) including duplicate storage. So one side of the solution can totally be taken offline by water, fire, etc. and the other side will remain up providing true-HA storage. Because of this, we can upgrade the SANs during the day and still keep storage services running (zero-downtime). Lower Costs - Ability to use 3rd party hardware which lowers the costs, not only for the initial investment but as storage capacity grows. All the features one can want - High Availability, Thin Provisioning, Asynchronous and Synchronous mirroring/replication, snap-shotting, continues data protection, deduplication, storage reporting, trending with graphs, centralized console for easier management and many more. Read full review Keeping sensitive customer data secure is a must for our organization and Scality has great features to make this happen. We replaced a single SAN with a Scality ring and found performance to improve as we store more and more customer data. Being able to lose various portions of our Scality ring and allow it to continue to service customers while maintaining high performance has been key to our business. Read full review ScreenShots