#201 – Introducing Scality ARTESCA (Sponsored)

In this week’s episode, Chris and Martin talk to Paul Speciale (Chief Product Officer at Scality) and Chris Tinker (Distinguished Technologist with HPE) about the launch of ARTESCA, a new lightweight, cloud-native object storage solution. HPE and Scality have announced the product jointly, delivering the solution on HPE hardware with an exclusive distribution agreement for 6 months. We get the detail on why ARTESCA is different to RING and the types of workload Scality is aiming to support. Since the launch of Scality and RING a decade ago, a lot has changed in technology and the industry. Physical media is 10x the capacity and solid-state media is affordable at scale. Customers are looking for new solutions that can be deployed in cloud and edge scenarios, with much lower capacity entry points, but with greater I/O capabilities. ARTESCA is the culmination of previous work on S3 Server and Zenko that addresses the needs of modern unstructured data solutions. HPE has an exclusive 6-month agreement to distribute ARTESCA on HPE server hardware. This introduces a range of new options, including all-flash and NVMe. For more details on ARTESCA, visit https://www.scality.com/products/artesca Elapsed Time: 00:44:40 Timeline * 00:00:00 – Intros* 00:01:15 – What is ARTESCA?* 00:02:45 – Object storage from a functional perspective is a new requirement* 00:03:30 – How have object storage requirements changed, in general?* 00:04:50 – Edge is starting to add to requirements for object storage* 00:07:00 – Object stores are great for concurrent I/O requests* 00:09:40 – Data protection has become a big user of object storage* 00:10:20 – New media and capacity increases has changed object storage design* 00:11:10 – HPE is optimising hardware solutions to fit the ARTESCA requirements* 00:12:30 – Scality has an evolving development to reach ARTESCA* 00:16:45 – Developers want more dynamic access to object storage buckets* 00:20:00 – ARTESCA uses a Scality version of Kubernetes* 00:23:40 – ARTESCA introduces a new erasure coding scheme* 00:27:00 – HPE assists customers in designing the right hardware solution* 00:30:00 – Software defined is at a point where specific hardware is essential* 00:33:30 – The management of ARTESCA is based on APIs and GUIs.* 00:36:00 – How do new customers choose between ARTESCA and RING?* 00:38:40 – How do developers consume ARTESCA endpoints?* 00:41:00 – What is the licensing model for ARTESCA?* 00:43:00 – Call to action – what’s the availability?* 00:44:00 – Wrap Up Related Podcasts & Blogs * #189 – The Quiet Success of Software-Defined Storage* #168 – Storage Unicorns* #148 – Unpacking HPE’s Storage Strategy* #139 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part II)* Scality Broadens Object Storage Adoption with ARTESCA* Understanding HPE’s Storage Product Portfolio*