Scality today announced the
availability of Zenko 1.0, the industry's first and only cloud-native
multi-cloud data controller. Available now in both open source and
enterprise editions, Zenko was built from the ground up to address the
challenges of modern cloud application development and data management,
overcoming the challenges of complexity and lock-in that come with today's
cloud storage services.
In brief, Zenko:
- stores all data unmodified so
that it can be accessed and acted on in the cloud directly;
- enables data mobility so that data can be easily placed
in the most
efficient location;
- provides a single endpoint through
which data can be stored, retrieved and searched across any location;
- enables unified data management
from anywhere through a secure cloud portal; and
- can be deployed anywhere using
Kubernetes orchestration framework: on-premises (on bare metal servers) or
in-cloud.
Enterprise-Ready
According to 451
Research, the future of IT is hybrid and multi-cloud, with 69 percent of survey
respondents planning to have some type of multi-cloud environment by 2019. Zenko
provides a unified interface to store, manage and search data across multiple
disparate private and public clouds, enabled by advanced metadata search and an
extensible data workflow engine. For developers and enterprises facing data
management challenges in hybrid or multi-cloud environments, Zenko truly does
deliver freedom and control to create value from data, regardless of where that
data resides.
"Cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google and
other large players are finding their place as core elements of enterprise IT,"
said Jerome Lecat, CEO at Scality. "What is required
to extract the most from these clouds is a solution that can cloud-enable the
data that resides in no matter where it's stored, whether cloud, legacy NAS or
newer object storage solutions. Zenko is a fully agnostic solution for cloud
data workflow management that provides the intelligence to discover, integrate
and manage data across existing enterprise storage solutions and public
clouds."
Roots in Open Source
With 1000 registered users since its initial release in July 2017,
Scality has continued to build its developer community and work with early
adopter enterprise customers to refine Zenko's core features.
"With Zenko, developers building cloud applications don't have to
choose a single provider or worry about coding to multiple APIs; Zenko was
architected to free developers from legacy application restrictions and give
them back control of one of their most valuable assets: data," said Giorgio
Regni, CTO at Scality. "Zenko opens opportunities to design applications where
storage doesn't need to be pre-selected up front and is chosen based only on
the needs of the business, such as cost, availability, or specific analytic
capabilities. Its metadata capabilities and extensible data workflow engine are
powerful tools that open up new cloud application and data management use
cases."
"Zenko gave NodeWeaver a set of fundamental capabilities -
complete AWS S3 compatibility, object storage replication, load balancing - in
a way that is simple, consistent and reliable. Its clean and simple Apache
licensing made it possible for our team to go from idea to production in weeks
instead of losing months in expensive licensing negotiations, and made
available to all our customers a powerful and manageable tool that greatly
enhanced our platform," said Carlo Daffara, CEO at NodeWeaver.
Zenko is a powerful tool for Financial Services and other regulated
industries that rely primarily on on-premises storage for its security, control
and performance. Zenko makes it easy to add cloud services for off-site
compliance, back-up and long-term archive. In Media and Entertainment, where
the creation of content in on-premises private clouds leveraging object storage
has become prevalent, Zenko makes it easy to add public cloud services for
content distribution (CDN), transcoding, and indexing. And, because Zenko
stores data in an open, readable format, users can leverage value-added cloud
services such as AWS Elastic Map Reduce, Azure Video Indexer, and Google Cloud
Dataflow and others.
"Scality enables developers and enterprises to quickly and
cost-effectively deploy thousands of apps within the Microsoft Azure Cloud and
leverage its many advanced services," said Tad Brockway, General Manager, Azure
Storage at Microsoft Corp. "Zenko stores data in Azure Blob Storage native
format, so it can easily be processed in the Azure Cloud for maximum utility."
"Hybrid IT and multi-cloud is a reality, and HPE
is helping our customers realize their visions with Scality Zenko, which
simplifies management of data across on-premises HPE Scalable Object Storage
with Scality RING and public clouds," said
Patrick Osborne, VP & GM Big Data and Secondary Storage at Hewlett Packard
Enterprise. "Teaming with Scality, we are reducing the complexity of
managing data in hybrid and multi-cloud environments so that developers and
enterprises can focus on the more important goals of accelerating digital
transformation."