Dailymotion Selecting Scality Ring

Dailymotion has selected Scality, Inc. to provide content archiving and to feed its direct to consumer VoD streaming system for Dailymotion’s 40+ million titles, each of which is encoded in seven different formats.

Dailymotion is one of the world’s largest video sites with 120 million unique visitors, more than 2.5B monthly video views and 300K to 600K simultaneous VoD sessions.

Dailymotion’s 10PB RING will operate in parallel with Dailymotion’s existing Isilon system. Dailymotion chose Scality because the RING delivers performance while being cost-effective.

“We are very pleased to be working with Dailymotion, one of our largest hyperscale customers,” said Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality. “Their enormous content stores, impressive global viewer base and stringent requirements underscore the value of our scale-out architecture to the hyperscale community.”

Scalitywas founded in 2009 to introduce a revolutionary software-defined storage platform that could manage data growth, ensure HA, deliverperformance and reduce operational cost. Scality’s scale-out storage solution, the RING, is based on patented object storage technology and operates on any commodity server hardware. It delivers scalability and data persistence, while its parallel architecture provides performance.

Scality’s storage infrastructure integrates with applications through standard storage protocols such as NFS, S3 API, and OpenStack as well as open source integration with Hadoop. In the past four years Scality has developed and deployed software storage solutions that deliver billions of files to more than one hundred million users daily with 100% availability. Scality’s customer list include four of the top ten cable operators in the US, the second largest telco in France, portals in Italy, Germany, and UK, and mobile operators in Japan.