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Scality RING pros and cons

Vendor: Scality
4.1 out of 5

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PROS

Scality RING offers exceptional scalability and capacity growth management.
The economic factor is a significant advantage, with lower storage costs.
Resilience leads to virtually zero data loss, enhancing reliability.
Scality RING supports multiple interfaces, including S3, NFS, and SMB, on a single infrastructure.
Enhanced operational efficiency is achieved through superior capacity and performance scaling across sites and clouds.

CONS

Scality RING requires day-to-day attention and may need component restarts.
Scalability issues were significant in 2015, and it is unclear if improvements have been made.
Encryption and data security are outdated, with no confidentiality solutions for customers.
Initial setup was complicated, and installation and documentation were incomplete in 2015.
Scality lacks full compatibility with Amazon S3, notably in features like checksum support for backups.
 

Scality RING Pros review quotes

Sebastien Foucou - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Apr 30, 2025
I would give customer service and technical support a 10 on a scale from 1 to 10 based solely on my own experience.
reviewer2713596 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
May 30, 2025
Scality RING has influenced our approach to scaling in different dimensions by providing a cost-effective solution for the tremendous amount of data we generate every day for each customer. It allows us to store, sort, and analyze data effectively while meeting our performance thresholds.
reviewer2702499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
May 5, 2025
We have virtually zero data loss thanks to this resilience.
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reviewer2716008 - PeerSpot reviewer
data center manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 4, 2025
The best functionality in Scality RING is the ability to handle three interfaces over a single infrastructure: S3, NFS, and SMB.
reviewer2711367 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer - Head of Engineering at a retailer with 11-50 employees
May 27, 2025
Scality RING has had a positive impact on our business in that we can store backups more securely than before even though this has nothing directly to do with Scality RING but also with an S3.
TD
Engineer at MinArm
May 12, 2025
I would rate Scality RING 10 out of 10.
reviewer2721330 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps team lead at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Jun 11, 2025
The best functionality of Scality RING is its ease of administration; it is out of the box and was set up for us in collaboration with Scality and HP.
reviewer2707281 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 20, 2025
Scality RING is very robust.
Nourreddine AISSAOUI - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Transactis France
Feb 12, 2026
The improvement with Scality RING is the ability to manage huge volumes and the easy scalability when dealing with capacity growth and management.
reviewer2731629 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Leader | Enterprise Architecture & Cloud Strategy at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Aug 11, 2025
The best features of Scality RING include multiple aspects, but a few that we specifically appreciate are the scalability platform, which allows us to scale our growth; second is metadata indexing and S3 API capabilities that allow us to access the data from one source.
 

Scality RING Cons review quotes

Sebastien Foucou - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Apr 30, 2025
I evaluate the simplicity of managing large volumes of data via Scality RING's user interface as limited because the user interface is mainly used for administration or monitoring purposes.
reviewer2713596 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
May 30, 2025
There are too many changes because it's software-defined storage and host-based. They should reduce the number of patches and enhance product reliability and stability. When releasing new versions, they should perform thorough quality checks instead of flooding us with patches.
reviewer2702499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
May 5, 2025
Encryption today is not up to date. Encryption and data security need improvement. We don't have a solution for customers who need confidentiality.
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reviewer2716008 - PeerSpot reviewer
data center manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 4, 2025
What we are currently missing and will be demanding in the new tender is an additional external backup of all data, ideally on a simple system, to safeguard against any severe local incidents so that we still have the data protected elsewhere.
reviewer2711367 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer - Head of Engineering at a retailer with 11-50 employees
May 27, 2025
Scality RING has contributed to overall company costs in that it has not reduced costs but rather increased them because we are now using this product as an additional protection mechanism for the backup.
TD
Engineer at MinArm
May 12, 2025
When considering the initial setup of Scality RING in 2015, it was, at first, very complicated. Installation and documentation were still being finalized.
reviewer2721330 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps team lead at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Jun 11, 2025
While Scality claims to be 100% compatible with Amazon S3, it seems this isn't entirely true; there are instances where specific backup tools require S3 to create checksums over written backups, which Scality does not support, unlike Amazon S3.
reviewer2707281 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 20, 2025
I typically have at least three different views with three user interfaces open when I work on something. I find it quite complicated at times.
Nourreddine AISSAOUI - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Transactis France
Feb 12, 2026
Sometimes we need to restart components, including metadata, so it is not just plug and play; day-to-day attention is necessary, but we can leverage vendor-provided monitoring tools, including dashboards to identify potential issues, allowing us to help manage overhead as much as possible.
reviewer2731629 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Leader | Enterprise Architecture & Cloud Strategy at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Aug 11, 2025
We do see some areas where we have much higher operations or much higher queries, Scality sometimes chokes up.