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Scality RING

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Spec score 7.1 #20 of 30 in Software-Defined Storage Software

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Purpose
Scality RING is distributed object storage for cloud, service-provider, and sovereign cloud environments.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Product
Scality RING is distributed object storage for cloud, service-provider, and sovereign cloud environments.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Intended users
Scality describes RING as built for cloud and service-provider environments and for organizations running concurrent backup, archive, analytics, cloud-native, AI, and customer-facing workloads.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Deployment
The product page lists on-premise, air-gapped, and sovereign-cloud deployment options.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Integrations
Scality says RING is integrated with more than 150 application providers and shows Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity, Rubrik, HPE, Supermicro, Lenovo, and Bull as examples.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Security
Scality's security page says its platform supports S3 Object Lock, fine-grained IAM and MFA, TLS in transit, and AES-256 encryption at rest.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Compliance
Scality lists ISO/IEC 27001, FIPS 140, SOC 2, Common Criteria, and SecNumCloud among its certifications and validations.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Support
Scality offers RING installation and deployment services, training, capacity expansion assistance, and phone and ticket support during business hours; its page lists response targets of 15 minutes for Priority 1, 4 hours for Priority 2, and 3 days for Priority 3.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · scality.com
Founded
2009Read 28 Sep 2026 · scality.com
Availability and durability
Scality states RING provides 14 nines data durability and 100% availability through failure, upgrade, and expansion events.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Company history
Scality says it was founded in 2009 in San Francisco and Paris, and that RING's first general release was in 2010.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Cyber resilience
RING uses CORE5 and lists S3 Object Lock, storage immutability, erasure coding, and self-healing across sites.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Deployment and sovereignty
RING can be deployed on-premises, air-gapped, or in a sovereign cloud, with policy-enforced data residency at the namespace level.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Hardware ecosystem
The RING page lists HPE, Supermicro, Lenovo, and Bull among its hardware and platform partners.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Intended customers
Scality describes RING as built for cloud, service-provider, sovereign-cloud, and enterprise environments, including organizations with multi-petabyte to exabyte data estates.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Multi-site access
RING provides a unified S3 namespace across sites and clouds, with high-concurrency multi-tenancy and hard isolation.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Protocols
RING supports S3, NFS, and SMB access over one cluster.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Resilience
Scality describes RING as providing 14 nines of data durability, inherent immutability, erasure coding, and self-healing across sites.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Scale
RING supports multi-petabyte to exabyte capacity in one logical namespace, with capacity, performance, tenants, sites, and protocols scaling independently.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Scale and namespace
RING provides a unified namespace across multi-petabyte to exabyte environments, with capacity, performance, tenants, sites, and protocols scaling independently.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com
Software security
Scality says its software is inspectable, standards-based, and maintained for a decade-long support horizon.Read 8 Oct 2026 · scality.com

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