Scality outperforms 17 competing industry vendors in 2024 GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Object Storage report
25 September 2024
Scality has received the highest ratings across all key categories in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Object Storage.
In the report, the company was named both a Leader and Outperformer, achieving the highest scores across Key Features, Emerging Features and Business Criteria categories, well ahead of 17 competing vendors.
Rated as exceptional in a comparison of all key features, the report recognised Scality with the highest possible score of 5, ahead of 17 competing vendors in criteria that includes Kubernetes support, workload optimisation, auditing, versioning, ransomware protection, reporting & analytics, storage optimisation, and public cloud integration.
Other highlights:
• Scality received the highest score of all competing object storage vendors, rated between superior and exceptional, in a comparison of business criteria that considered cost, performance, flexibility, manageability, scalability and ecosystem
• Scality also received the highest score of all vendors in the report across emerging features
• Categorising Scality as an Outperformer, the report positioned Scality closest to the centre of the Radar, signifying an optimal balance of feature play, platform play, maturity and innovation. The GigaOm Radar plots vendor solutions across a series of concentric rings with those set closer to the centre judged to be of higher overall value. According to GigaOm, the closer to the centre of the Radar chart a vendor sits, the better its execution and value, with top performers occupying the inner Leaders circle.
Click here for a visualisation of the GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Object Storage report.
“We’re thrilled to see Scality recognised as an object storage market leader by GigaOm,” said Paul Speciale, Chief Marketing Officer at Scality. “This crucial report explains that object storage has revolutionised enterprise data management, with increased agility, reduced costs and improved business resilience.”
He continued, “The technology innovations of object storage are already making a massive difference in important real-world applications, such as accelerating AI data lakes for genomic research, for example. Thanks to the capability of Scality RING to aggregate petabyte-scale genetics data, biologists now have efficient access from thousands of compute nodes to nearly 10 petabytes of data throughout its lifecycle, improving care for patients suffering from cancer and other diseases.” Learn more about how Scality RING advances AI -powered genomic research here.
Scality solution insights in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Object Storage
The 2024 GigaOm Enterprise Object Storage Radar report is the fifth year the organisation has investigated the object storage sector.
The report is intended to help prospective customers find the best fit for their use case and business requirements. In its assessment of Scality, the report says, “This year, Scality is a Leader, having outperformed many vendors with more enhancements and new features released over the last 12 months. The roadmap continues this theme, and we expect to see the continued development and maturity of these new features."
The report continues, “Leaders and Outperformers in this space are those who have been able to adapt to significant changes in data type and data size, solving the problems of new applications that use lots of small files. This has been a challenge for archive and backup solutions that were optimised for larger files and sequential streams of data, and it is a capability sorely needed by customers looking to consolidate data workflows and pipelines into single storage systems.”
The criteria
Over 16 weeks, the GigaOm research process required Scality to present both high-level data and more detailed technical information encompassing table stakes, key, and emerging features of RING, the company’s distributed file and object storage system. This process moved in multiple stages from report planning to briefings, report development, and fact checking.
The GigaOm Enterprise Object Storage Radar report required all solutions to meet capabilities widely adopted and well implemented in the sector, including access controls, data protection and optimization, encryption and security, remote and geo-replication, encryption, scale-out architecture and support for S3 and other protocols.
More information on Scality here.
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