Directly following the launch of Scality ARTESCA the Tech Field Day delegates were asked to share their thoughts and opinions on the product.

Delegates Reflect: Tech Field Day Presents Scality and HPE - Gestalt IT

In the video below the delegates reflect on the following points

• What is ARTESCA?

• What is it about ARTESCA that Scality is doing right?

• What does ARTESCA do to appeal to developers?

• ARTESCA is built on a number of open-source tools, which should make it developer-friendly as well, right?

• ARTESCA isn’t just about storing and retrieving data thought, its about data management as well.

• What is our reaction to the launch of ARTESCA alongside HPE?

• Reflecting on the launch itself.

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Following the recent launch of Scality ARTESCA with Tech Field Day I have been investigating the architecture behind ARTESCA a little bit more.

If you would like to read more about the architecture behind Scality ARTESCA check out this whitepaper > https://go.scality.com/l/893901/2021-05-11/3zjqn/893901/1621255966fkouGUtc/artesca_wp_v4.pdf

Depicted within this doodle is the ARTESCA architecture which is able to be deployed in a single node configuration prior to scaling via multiple nodes to petabyte scale. ARTESCA runs within containers on Kubernetes (MetalK8’s today) and is accessed using the standard S3 protocol which makes it easy for developers to quickly and easily develop against whilst the UI, replication features and more will give IT operations confidence to manage through into production.

Initially, ARTESCA is exclusive with HPE for 6 months and is available with a wide variety of configurations, these include all-flash, hybrid and hard disk-based configurations to meet the needs of the individual workloads. There is also a 50TB starter licence available free of charge for you to try prior to scaling further. It is not yet known what will happen after the first 6 months but I assume it will be available as a software-only solution as well as continuing to be made available by HPE and maybe others.

Within ARTESCA there has been a lot of consideration made into the availability of data with local codes to protect against data loss from disk failure as well as parity stripes to protect against simultaneous disk failures, network repair codes for multi-node solutions and of course multiple replication options not only to ARTESCA but also to their RING product and cloud-based S3 storage.

ARTESCA is a really interesting solution for object storage requirements, it is software-based, leverages Kubernetes, has multiple configuration options to meet edge and core use cases and unites developers and operations by offering ease of adoption for developers via the use of the S3 protocol, Kubernetes architecture and full API and for operations, it is easy to manage and monitor, has full monitoring capabilities and is backed by HPE! What’s not to like!

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You are able to see my first doodle and blog post containing information about the launch of Scality ARTESCA here.

During the second half of the Scality ARTESCA launch we switched from the ActualTechMedia webcast and came over the the Tech Field Day portion. You are able to watch the videos once available here.

The Tech Field Day session started with a discussion led by James Governor and Joey D’Antoni focusing on dev-ops and the edge. There was much discussion around kubernetes and the need for object storage as well as the need to automate processes at the edge. We then saw a demonstration by Scality of the new ARTESCA UI. The UI seemed very mature offering you the ability to not only manage ARTESCA platforms but also Scality RING and other S3 compatible repositories such as AWS and Azure Blob.

Whilst in many cases theses systems will be managed and accessed via API’s by developers and then via DevOps automations I believe certainly at the edge there is a need for a fully featured UI to allow operational troubleshooting and maintenance.

One of the elements that was pleasing to see is that the ARTESCA UI allowed for visibility and reporting of the underlying infrastructure layers including Kubernetes and the HPE hardware status. I was also very impressed by the including analytics, including predicted analytics as well as the integrated object browser where you couldn’t only browse objects but add and edit meta data.

Please see above my doodle from the second part of the Scality ARTESCA launch and below some of the UI screenshots.

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You can learn more about Scality ARTESCA here >> SCALITY ARTESCA | scality

and you can see more from HPE on Scality here >> HPE Object Based Storage for Scality Solutions | HPE

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Yesterday Scality in collaboration with HPE launched their new ARTESCA Lightweight, cloud-native object storage product. The launch took place online with a collaboration between ActualTechMedia and Tech Field Day.

ARTESCA is designed for the core to the edge and offers a central point of management not just for your ARTESCA deployments but also for Scality RING and other compatible S3 storage technologies from the likes of AWS and Microsoft Azure.

ARTESCA is software built upon Kubernetes to modern cloud-native design principles allowing ease of scale from initial deployments during development through to moving into production. ARTESCA offers dual-level data protection and disaster recovery with distributed erasure codes and local repair codes for durability and fast disk rebuilds alongside integrated geo-replication for DR. .

You can see my tech doodle covering the ActualTechMedia presentation above and watch this space for some more thoughts and doodles from the event.

You can learn more about Scality ARTESCA here >> SCALITY ARTESCA | scality

and you can see more from HPE on Scality here >> HPE Object Based Storage for Scality Solutions | HPE

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Nasuni presented on Day 2 of #SFD21 taking place virtually due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please see my doodle above covering their presentation . I will be following up with a few more thoughts and opinions of the presentation after #SFD21 completes.

Scality offer Scale-Out File and Object Storage Solutions with Support for On-Premises, AWS S3, Google Cloud and Azure.

Scality presented their experiences with kubernetes as they redesigned the distriubtion of their key offering Scality RING from RPM packages to their own bespoke MetalK8’s offering. Their Zenko solution stood out to me, Zenko offers the freedom to use object and file storage solutions on-premises and in the cloud whilst having unified management, single namespace, metadata search, flexible replication between clouds, all whilst still storing data in the native cloud formats.

Zenko supports, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Wasabi, as well as on-premises solutions such as their own RING offering and legacy NAS.

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