Scality announced an extension to Zenko's data orchestration
platform. New capabilities give access to pre-existing data sets
across multiple environments including on-premise storage like Scality RING or public cloud infrastructures like
AWS. The enhancements prevent time-consuming and costly migrations and pave the
way for a more flexible and efficient workflow to keep data more available and
actionable.
"Our
vision is to empower IT organizations to capitalize on the promise of
multi-cloud sovereignty," said Jerome Lecat, CEO of Scality. "Zenko's new
extension takes us one step closer, giving IT more control over their data with
an open source, vendor neutral data mover across all clouds, whether private or
public like AWS."
Zenko
now imports metadata from managed data locations and maintains consistency over
time by capturing asynchronous updates triggered with existing mechanisms such
as the AWS S3 Bucket Notification, Lambda functions and IAM Policies for
enhanced cross-site access control. This allows applications to preserve normal
access to S3 buckets in AWS, while still reaping all the visibility and
management benefits of Zenko. All that burden and complexity is shielded from
software development teams who can now focus on delivering applications faster
and at a lower cost.
Scality
customers across the globe are taking advantage of these new capabilities with
the extended data management (XDM) feature built into Scality RING. Specifically,
customers in the healthcare, media and entertainment, and financial services
industries use XDM for multiple use cases including cloud data archiving,
bursting and disaster recovery.
Launched in 2018, and awarded Product of the Year
at NAB in 2019,
Zenko was designed to address the challenges of modern cloud application
development and data management. It provides a single endpoint with a unified
interface to store, manage and search data across multiple disparate private
and public clouds, allowing for advanced metadata search across a global
namespace. Scality continues to take methodical steps to fulfill this vision.
Give
it a try: Zenko open source edition is available for free download at www.zenko.io