Best Historical Quarter for Scality

Scality, Inc. announced that 2017 brought the company record revenue numbers and new customers that selected its RING software-defined storage for its record of keeping data always available and offering the high level of durability for their customers’ exabytes of data.

The company expanded its install base in 2017 with 51 new enterprise customers, in addition to expanding the RING storage footprint for many in its petabyte-scale customer base, the largest of which is over 100PB.

Some new customer highlights include:

Lancaster General Health, University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine)
SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français), a leader in passenger and freight transport services
Endemol Shine in Australia, part of the global media powerhouse, Endemol Shine Group
Bezeq International, Israel’s, an Internet and international telecommunications services provider
CLS Groupe (Collecte Localisation Satellites), operator of high-value satellite systems in Europe
Transport Systems Catapult, in transportation innovation through data sharing in UK.

“For nearly a decade, it has been Scality’s purpose to deliver technology that allows our customers to create value with data,” said Jerome Lecat, Scality’s CEO. “The industries in which we have a strong customer base: banking and finance, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and healthcare all share the challenge of having petabyte-scale data that must be kept intact and readily available for the long term, whether for compliance or for revenue generation or for both.”

Scality achieved its best quarter in company history, shipping over 100PB of usable storage that brought 20 new petabyte-scale customers in Q4 alone, extending its market reach by deepening its partnerships with HPE, Cisco and leading channel partners.

This year of benchmark success for the software-defined storage vendor also saw the growth of its engineering team to more than 85 individuals, acclaimed product releases of Scality RING7 and the Zenko Multi-Cloud controller, industry recognition from analyst firms, including IDC and Gartner, who placed Scality as a leader in the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, the only independent company to be named in the Leaders’ quadrant. The vendor also scored second across every use case in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Object Storage published on January 25, 2018. Furthermore, the company invested in a new HQs in San Francisco, CA, moved to larger offices in Tokyo, Japan, and London, UK, and opened new offices in Germany and Australia.

“We are very proud of our 2017 success and, in particular, the sales acceleration in Q4,” added Lecat. “We’re leading the way as companies seek ways to make more from their data. They’re not only moving rapidly to more cost-effective software-defined storage and increasing their adoption of object storage, but looking for ways to leverage clouds – expanding to becoming multi-cloud IT organisations – and our Zenko Multi-cloud Data Controller, launched in July of last year, helps us help them, and positions us well for increased success in 2018.”

Scality’s accelerated adoption in healthcare in 2017 continues, bolstered by the confidence built through real-world successes and by its interoperability with the health technology solutions from vendors including ACUO, Fujifilm, GE, McKesson, Philips and others.

“We are seeing the rapid adoption of object storage in the healthcare market,” said Jonathan Butz, executive project officer, VertitechIT. “Scality RING provides the efficient storage and always-on availability required by large hospitals for their medical imaging data (radiology, pathology, cardiology, etc.), and other types of health data, in large part because it delivers the security required for critical patient health information.”

The firm continues to focus its attention on partnerships and channels for growth, and in Q4 indirect sales represented a record high of 78%.

With HPE the company delivered new factory integrated object storage systems with appliance-like experience (integrated monitoring), and worldwide unified support from HPE PointNext First Call Support and expanded the HPE Step-up Program for Scality, a pay-as-you-grow program that provides a customisable, budget-friendly payment program that provides budget flexibility for customers. Scality also expanded its partnership with Cisco as a new reseller and delivered a new Cisco Validated Design for Object Storage and Cisco Solution Support for unified first call support.