<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
company	O
based	O
in	O
San	O
Francisco	O
,	O
California	O
that	O
develops	O
software-defined	O
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
RING	O
software	O
deploys	O
on	O
industry-standard	O
servers	O
to	O
store	O
objects	O
and	O
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
also	O
offers	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
open	O
source	O
tools	O
called	O
Zenko	O
,	O
including	O
Zenko	O
CloudServer	O
,	O
compatible	O
with	O
the	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
S3	I-General_Concept
interface	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
in	O
2009	O
by	O
Jérôme	O
Lecat	O
,	O
Giorgio	O
Regni	O
,	O
Daniel	O
Binsfeld	O
,	O
Serge	O
Dugas	O
,	O
and	O
Brad	O
King	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
raised	O
$7	O
million	O
of	O
venture	O
capital	O
funding	O
in	O
March	O
2011	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
raised	O
$45	O
million	O
in	O
August	O
2015	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
announced	O
a	O
refreshed	O
brand	O
,	O
along	O
with	O
a	O
distribution	O
agreement	O
with	O
Hewlett-Packard	O
in	O
October	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
added	O
Dell	O
and	O
Cisco	O
Systems	O
as	O
resellers	O
in	O
2015	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
's	O
released	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
its	O
principal	O
product	O
,	O
RING	O
,	O
in	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
software	O
platform	O
is	O
a	O
multitiered	O
architecture	O
and	O
can	O
scale	O
up	O
to	O
thousands	O
of	O
servers	O
and	O
up	O
to	O
100	O
petabytes	O
under	O
a	O
single	O
namespace	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ring	O
product	O
depends	O
on	O
a	O
keyspace	O
calculated	O
using	O
a	O
Monte	B-Algorithm
Carlo	I-Algorithm
simulation	I-Algorithm
at	O
install	O
,	O
spread	O
across	O
all	O
of	O
its	O
node	O
servers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
was	O
covered	O
by	O
trade	O
press	O
in	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2017	O
,	O
Scality	B-General_Concept
released	O
Zenko	O
,	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
multi-cloud	O
data	O
controller	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2018	O
,	O
Scality	B-General_Concept
released	O
a	O
commercially	O
supported	O
version	O
of	O
Zenko	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Zenko	O
CloudServer	O
(	O
formerly	O
Scality	B-General_Concept
S3	O
Server	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
Simple	O
Storage	O
Service-compatible	O
open	O
source	O
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
server	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
code	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
Node.js	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
a	O
single	O
instance	O
running	O
in	O
a	O
Docker	B-Language
container	O
,	O
and	O
it	O
uses	O
Docker	B-Language
volumes	O
for	O
persistent	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CloudServer	O
uses	O
the	O
same	O
code	O
as	O
the	O
Scality	B-General_Concept
RING	O
S3	O
interface	O
and	O
includes	O
an	O
Apache	B-Application
2.0	I-Application
license	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
it	O
does	O
have	O
the	O
same	O
level	O
of	O
compatibility	O
as	O
the	O
S3	O
interface	O
for	O
the	O
Scality	B-General_Concept
RING	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
released	O
version	O
4.2	O
in	O
October	O
2013	O
which	O
added	O
native	O
file	O
access	O
protocols	O
including	O
Network	B-Protocol
File	I-Protocol
System	I-Protocol
(	O
NFS	O
)	O
,	O
Server	B-Operating_System
Message	I-Operating_System
Block	I-Operating_System
(	O
SMB	O
)	O
,	O
Apple	B-Protocol
Filing	I-Protocol
Protocol	I-Protocol
(	O
AFP	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
FTP	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
released	O
version	O
4.3	O
of	O
the	O
RING	O
software	O
in	O
July	O
2014	O
,	O
improving	O
performance	O
,	O
adding	O
replication	O
options	O
,	O
and	O
introducing	O
a	O
redesigned	O
management	O
GUI	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2014	O
,	O
Scality	B-General_Concept
made	O
generally	O
available	O
a	O
plug-in	O
for	O
OpenStack	O
Swift	O
,	O
enabling	O
Swift-compatible	O
applications	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
Scality	B-General_Concept
RING	O
as	O
a	O
storage	O
backend	O
without	O
modification	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
also	O
released	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
driver	O
that	O
enables	O
the	O
creation	O
of	O
block	B-General_Concept
storage	I-General_Concept
volumes	O
that	O
can	O
connect	O
to	O
CDMI-compatible	O
storage	O
backends	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
RING7	O
launched	O
in	O
June	O
,	O
2017	O
with	O
enhanced	O
security	O
and	O
multi-cloud	O
file	O
and	O
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
has	O
been	O
recognized	O
consistently	O
over	O
the	O
years	O
for	O
object-based	B-Application
storage	I-Application
by	O
IDC	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
Gartner	O
's	O
first	O
Magic	O
Quadrant	O
for	O
Distributed	O
File	O
Systems	O
and	O
Object	B-Application
Storage	I-Application
Scality	B-General_Concept
was	O
ranked	O
a	O
leader	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scality	B-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
2014	O
storage	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
software	O
finalist	O
by	O
Storage	O
Magazine	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2017	O
,	O
Scality	B-General_Concept
was	O
again	O
ranked	O
a	O
leader	O
in	O
Gartner	O
's	O
Magic	O
Quadrant	O
for	O
Distributed	O
File	O
Systems	O
and	O
Object	B-Application
Storage	I-Application
.	O
</s>
