San Francisco, CA and Rome, Italy – August 30, 2011 - Scality today announced that Aziende Italia, one of the top web-hosting and internet service providers (ISPs) in Italy, has deployed the Scality RING cloud storage platform with TwinStrata CloudArray®. The seamless integration of Scality’s RING organic storage platform into the TwinStrata family of CloudArray virtual and physical appliances was announced last November.

The combined solution is used by Aziende Italia to offer unlimited-capacity business email along with a new online backup service for its B2B customers.


New Scality logo hi-resAziende Italia’s CTO, Federico D’Ormea, said, “The unlimited scaling possible with Scality RING, at a very low production cost, represents for us a definitive solution for all of the cloud services we're going to deploy this year. After an extensive evaluation of various storage technologies, we chose Scality RING’s easy-to-manage architecture because it has ‘no single point of failure’ and because it will give us the ability to deploy our new unlimited Business Class Mail service in a secure environment with very high availability and performance — two of our customers’ greatest expectations.  With the help of Scality’s technologists, we chose TwinStrata CloudArray, which presents the cloud storage as traditional block storage, to allow our customers to leverage our cloud storage service without any change to their infrastructure.”

Ann Doyle, VP Sales, TwinStrata, added, “By using Scality RING with TwinStrata CloudArray, Aziende Italia is now able to meet customers’ data storage demands in a secure, economical and easy-to-deploy cloud storage architecture.”

Adoption of Scality’s patented RING technology is steadily increasing among business and cloud storage companies throughout Europe. Scality is already the leading cloud storage vendor in Germany, and the company now has several customers in Italy.

“Twinstrata CloudArray coupled with Scality RING organic storage technology offers a complete solution that delivers the best of both worlds - compatibility with legacy applications and a radical decrease in cost. We are glad to see Aziende Italia, one of the most visionary players in Italy, be the first to provide our combined offering in an integrated package”, said Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality.

CloudArray technology explained
CloudArray® data storage and data protection software enables businesses to instantly expand their available storage capacity using public and private storage clouds. CloudArray seamlessly integrates into existing on-premise storage environments and delivers cost-effective enterprise-class storage services optimized for performance, multi-site availability and elastic unlimited storage capacity at a substantial cost-savings over traditional storage solutions.

CloudArray Software is available as a virtual appliance supporting all the market-leading hypervisors: VMware ESX/ESXi, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and Amazon EC2. It is also available in a physical appliance for customers that prefer dedicated purpose-built hardware.

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