Scality,
the storage that powers digital business, today announced the General
Availability release of its S3 Server software, an open source version
of its S3 API. Packaged as a Docker container to be easily deployed on a
single server, the Scality S3 Server will enable developers to code to
the S3 API locally, and even to extend the API should they need it.
Enterprises can leverage the Scality S3 Server to accelerate
time-to-market of cloud applications without having to first decide
where the application will be deployed in production. Applications
developed with the Scality S3 Server will be freely deployable on
premises, on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Cloud, or both - without
changing a single line of code.
"S3 has become the de-facto standard API for digital business
applications to store unstructured data, but until now there was no easy
solution to locally develop and test an application that can be deployed
at web-scale," said Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality. "This version of our
S3 API has been packaged as an S3 Server in a Docker container and is
extremely easy to deploy, even on a laptop. The Scality S3 Server is the
same code as the version that can be deployed in production for billions
of objects and petabytes of storage with the Scality RING Version 6."
"Scality is at the forefront of enabling storage for the digital
transformation. The new Scality S3 Server is a great entry point into
that transformation," said Travis Vigil, executive director, Dell
Storage. "Dell works with Scality to deliver the Dell SD7000-S - the
only and densest purpose-built appliance for Scality's object storage
solutions. The Scality S3 Server is a simple and free way to get started
with object storage. When they're ready for production, users can easily
repoint their applications to Dell's solution for continuous data
availability, non-disruptive upgrades, and linear scaling up to dozens
of petabytes."
The Scality S3 Server is written in Node.js and offers rich S3 API
features and fast bucket listing. The S3 Server offers strong S3 API
compatibility, allowing application developers to utilize the full set
of AWS S3 language-specific bindings and wrappers, including SDKs for
Java, .NET, Javascript, and Go, to simplify coding. The new offering
uses Docker volumes for storage, and can be used for pilot and
production deployment of several hundreds of terabytes. Both free and
paid support options are available on Docker Hub and Github, and at the
Scality S3 Server portal. For companies that require a commercially
supported version of the Scality S3 Server, the Enterprise Edition is
available as a subscription for $950 per month, per server.
"We have been using the Scality RING in production for close to six
years. To date, when we had applications that needed storage, we would
typically target a file system. With the S3 Server we now have a simple
way to help develop applications that work with S3 and object storage,
which will give us more business and deployment flexibility," said Stef
Van Dessel, Chief Engineer at Telenet.
"Design new applications with RESTful Web services in mind even if you
start off using traditional protocols for unstructured data to
incorporate a shared-nothing approach to application scalability and
bimodal IT," recommended Raj Bala, Research Director at Gartner.*
"We decided to open source the code of our S3 server implementation so
that developers around the globe can benefit from an instant S3 test and
dev environment either directly on their laptop or running on a
container service in the cloud. We are convinced that this server
software will be used by the creative community in many ways that we
have not envisioned, and which in turn will develop the value and
accessibility of object storage" said Giorgio Regni, CTO of Scality.