Scality

94% of IT leaders rely on immutable storage to protect data as ransomware attacks skyrocket

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality, a global leader in reliable, secure and sustainable data storage software, today announced the results of a survey of 500 IT decision-makers across France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. to gain insight into the role immutable data storage plays in an organization's overall cybersecurity strategy.

Key Points: 
  • Only 12% of those who deployed immutable data storage say it is not essential to cybersecurity.
  • Results from the independent survey by Vanson Bourne demonstrate that IT leaders consider immutable storage as a must-have in the fight against cyberattacks.
  • This reinforces the role immutable data storage plays as an essential last line of defense within a cybersecurity toolkit.
  • With immutable storage, data cannot be deleted or modified once written, increasing data safety and ensuring organizations have the power to restore data with 100% accuracy in the event of a breach.

V-Valley to extend distribution of Scality storage solutions in Spain

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
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V-Valley will help its partners to provide value-added IT services for clients who require modern, on-premises hybrid-cloud and data protection storage software.

Key Points: 
  • V-Valley will help its partners to provide value-added IT services for clients who require modern, on-premises hybrid-cloud and data protection storage software.
  • Scality's advanced object storage solutions help organizations protect and manage unstructured data at petabyte scale, wherever data lives.
  • Through the expanded partnership, V-Valley partners can now empower their customers in Spain with best-in-class object storage solutions to handle large-scale data challenges.
  • Scality's solutions empower us to enhance our portfolio of storage solutions offered to our partners.

Scality partners with RIXS to empower Malaysian enterprises with modern cyber-secure storage

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Thursday, December 7, 2023
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PARIS and KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality, a global leader in reliable, secure, and sustainable data storage software, has partnered with RIXS to introduce advanced solutions to enterprises in Malaysia. Through this collaboration, RIXS will offer Scality's RING and ARTESCA products in response to the escalating demand for robust IT solutions in Southeast Asia. With RING and ARTESCA, Scality enables RIXS to help local enterprises better address regulatory requirements, protect against ransomware threats, add cyber resiliency, and manage substantial growth in unstructured data.

Key Points: 
  • With RING and ARTESCA, Scality enables RIXS to help local enterprises better address regulatory requirements, protect against ransomware threats, add cyber resiliency, and manage substantial growth in unstructured data.
  • Named as an 8-time leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File and Object Storage, Scality delivers unbreakable storage for the data center.
  • Marie-Laure Retureau, Regional Director at Scality: "We are delighted to partner with RIXS to bring modern storage solutions to end users across some of the fastest growing markets in Malaysia.
  • Irwan Annuar, Sales Director at RIXS: "Our partnership with Scality is a strategic alliance aimed at meeting the dynamic needs of enterprises in our region.

Scality's 2024 predictions: AI, hybrid cloud and ransomware detection will define the data storage landscape, while hard disk drives live on

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Thursday, November 30, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality , a global leader in reliable, secure, and sustainable data storage software, today shared its annual data storage predictions for 2024.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality , a global leader in reliable, secure, and sustainable data storage software, today shared its annual data storage predictions for 2024.
  • In addition, perennial data storage management challenges — growing data volumes, tight budgets, skills shortages, complicated IT installations, and increasing cyber threats — will persist.
  • While these are standard assumptions, this year, Scality focused its predictions on the ongoing conversations led by customers and thought leaders in the data storage industry.
  • This is exemplified by the rise of immutability in data protection and data storage solutions, especially for backup data.

Scality expands cyber-resilient storage for Veeam with a new channel-friendly deployment option

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality, a global leader in reliable, secure and sustainable data storage software, announced new investments in its product line that make it even easier for Veeam® customers to advance cyber resilience and ransomware protection via a new hardware appliance deployment model for Veeam, the leader in data protection and ransomware recovery.

Key Points: 
  • This extends deployment options for Scality ARTESCA beyond existing software and virtual appliance offerings.
  • The new hardware appliance provides a rapid "plug-and-play" deployment model for Veeam that is ideal for a high-velocity channel.
  • Veeam and Scality resellers now have the opportunity to give customers:
    Flexible deployment options: With the addition of a hardware appliance to existing software and virtual appliance offerings, Scality now provides a variety of deployment options to fit any customer need.
  • Fast and secure deployment: ARTESCA is the easiest immutable storage solution to get up and running quickly to protect large-scale unstructured data.

Scality elevates Eric LeBlanc to vice president of worldwide channel sales & GM of ARTESCA

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality , a leader in reliable, secure and sustainable data storage software, announced today the promotion of Eric LeBlanc into a new role as the vice president of worldwide channel sales and general manager of ARTESCA .

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality , a leader in reliable, secure and sustainable data storage software, announced today the promotion of Eric LeBlanc into a new role as the vice president of worldwide channel sales and general manager of ARTESCA .
  • Peter Brennan, Scality CRO: "Eric has an affinity for growing product lines through the channel.
  • In his new role, LeBlanc will focus on extending his expertise globally to:
    Strengthen global partnerships with distributors, VARs, and ISVs
    Eric LeBlanc, Scality vice president of worldwide channel sales and GM of ARTESCA: "A sleeping giant has awakened.
  • Prior to joining Scality, LeBlanc held channel leadership roles at Infovista, Silver Peak, 3Com, Atos, and Symantec.

Scality named an 8-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage

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Thursday, November 2, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality , a global leader in reliable, secure and sustainable data storage software, announced today that it has been named by Gartner® as a Leader in the 2023 Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, marking the eighth year in a row the company has received this recognition.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality , a global leader in reliable, secure and sustainable data storage software, announced today that it has been named by Gartner® as a Leader in the 2023 Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, marking the eighth year in a row the company has received this recognition.
  • Scality has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant every year that Gartner has issued a Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.
  • The company believes that for customers, this is a testament to Scality's Ability to Execute and the Completeness of the Vision.
  • Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality, said: "We believe our position in the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage validates our ongoing commitment to empowering our customers with storage deployments that address the fundamental business challenges of today — cyber resilience, agility, and cost control.

Scality helps improve enterprise resiliency and data protection with new object storage interoperability for VMware Cloud Director

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality, a global leader in reliable, more secure and sustainable data storage software, today announced standardized interoperability between VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Interoperability Service (OSIS) and Scality RING. Through this collaboration, Scality will enable its customers to expand their cloud storage offerings with intrinsic security. Additionally, plug-and-play interoperability between Scality RING and VMware Cloud Director can be leveraged to operate new object storage services for a range of data protection workloads, helping service providers increase revenue streams from advanced storage services without a huge engineering lift. Scality is the first S3 object storage vendor to self-certify as an OSIS-compliant partner for VMware Cloud Director.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality , a global leader in reliable, more secure and sustainable data storage software, today announced standardized interoperability between VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Interoperability Service (OSIS) and Scality RING.
  • Scality is the first S3 object storage vendor to self-certify as an OSIS-compliant partner for VMware Cloud Director.
  • To simplify S3 object storage interoperability, VMware launched the Object Storage Interoperability Service (OSIS), which allows any S3-compliant vendor to officially work directly with the VMware Cloud Director UI.
  • Service providers and their customers can now seamlessly manage petabyte-scale object storage directly from the VMware Cloud Director user interface.

Scality appoints Paul Repice as Vice President of Sales for the Americas

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Monday, September 18, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality, a global leader in reliable, secure and sustainable data storage software, announced the appointment of Paul Repice as vice president and general manager of sales for the Americas region. Working in support of Scality's recently appointed CRO Peter Brennan, Repice will help accelerate Scality's growth by strengthening partnerships and identifying new revenue opportunities within the Americas partner ecosystem.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality , a global leader in reliable, secure and sustainable data storage software, announced the appointment of Paul Repice as vice president and general manager of sales for the Americas region.
  • Working in support of Scality's recently appointed CRO Peter Brennan , Repice will help accelerate Scality's growth by strengthening partnerships and identifying new revenue opportunities within the Americas partner ecosystem.
  • Most recently Repice led Americas sales at Datadobi and, before that, at Tintri and Western Digital — each a recognized pioneer in their respective spaces.
  • "Scality is at the forefront of a massive shift in the way IT treats storage as an integral component of companies' infrastructure security plans," said Repice.

Scality partners with Comportal to bring private cloud storage software to Central Asia

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Thursday, September 14, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO and ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality, a global leader in reliable, secure, and sustainable data storage software, has partnered with value-added distributor Comportal to help enterprises in the region modernize IT infrastructures with state-of-the-art private cloud storage solutions focused on cyber resiliency and large-scale data growth.

Key Points: 
  • Comportal will deliver Scality ARTESCA and RING , object storage software that solves organizations' biggest data storage challenges — growth, security and cost — and delivers 100% uptime, ransomware protection and utmost resilience.
  • Scality and Comportal's new partnership now helps more companies in Kazakhstan and Central Asia implement modern software-defined storage solutions to meet this need.
  • Comportal, combined with Scality and its ecosystem of partners, ensures customers are protected against any threat and can comply with local data sovereignty regulations.
  • Marie-Laure Retureau, regional director, Scality: "We are delighted to partner with Comportal to reinforce our local presence, support our existing customer base and help enterprises across Central Asia with Scality's storage solutions.