Scality improves security for enterprise cloud
As organizations store more of their information in the cloud increased focus is placed on keeping it secure from breaches and other threats.
Cloud storage specialist Scality is launching a new version of its RING software defined storage technology to provide extended security features and a trusted, compliant and secure storage infrastructure.
"Data is a business critical asset but we are increasingly seeing more data breaches, security attacks and malware threats on businesses," says Giorgio Regni, CTO at Scality. "Organizations today need to reduce risk, assure compliance, securely store data and implement strict access controls and governance. We designed Scality RING 6.4 to be the most secure Object Storage ever built".
Features of RING 6.4 include, encryption at rest, with integration in the customer’s key management service, together with integration with AWS REST and native tools for user management. It uses the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) model to deliver better access control.
It also offers support for groups and access control policies, extended single-sign-on capabilities to support temporary credential leasing and expiration, and support for S3-based bucket and object versioning to support compliance. There's a disaster recovery mode too, giving business continuity even in the event of a data center failure and simultaneous component (disk or server) failures in the remaining data center.
"Scality has put the S3 API at the core of its connector strategy," says Regni. "For the storage of unstructured data at scale, we see the world moving towards object storage, whether in private clouds or public clouds. The S3 API is the de-facto standard interface for cloud storage. The value that we bring is not so much in the API itself, but in delivering the API in a way that is respectful of the needs of Enterprise IT".
RING 6.4 will be on display at AWS re:Invent this week or you can get more details on the Scality website.
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