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Scality RING pros and cons

Vendor: Scality

4.1 out of 5

15 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Scality RING provides exceptional scalability, managing capacity growth with lower storage costs and multiple interface support, including S3, NFS, and SMB. Resilience minimizes data loss, while enhanced operational efficiency boosts performance across sites and clouds. However, daily management is necessary due to potential component restarts. Security and encryption are outdated, setup was complicated, and compatibility issues with Amazon S3 persist, particularly missing checksum support for backups.

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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Encryption and data security are outdated, with no confidentiality solutions for customers.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

reviewer2713596

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.

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reviewer2716008

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.

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reviewer2721330

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.

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Nourreddine AISSAOUI

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.

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reviewer2731629

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.

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reviewer2702499

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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Sebastien Foucou

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.

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reviewer2711367

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.

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TD

Engineer at MinArm

May 12, 2025

I would rate Scality RING 10 out of 10.

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reviewer2707281

Senior ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 20, 2025

Scality RING is very robust.

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reviewer2713596

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.

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reviewer2716008

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.

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reviewer2721330

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.

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Nourreddine AISSAOUI

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.

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reviewer2731629

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.

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reviewer2702499

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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Sebastien Foucou

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.

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reviewer2711367

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.

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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.

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reviewer2707281

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.

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