Availability of Scality Connect for Azure Blob Storage

From Scality blog

We are pleased to announce the availability of Scality Connect for Azure Blob Storage.

The company has been working closely with the Azure Storage team at Microsoft Corp. for the past several months on Scality Connect. Its product enables any application that works with Amazon S3 to support Azure Blob Storage.

Why is this important? All of proven Amazon S3 applications can start using Azure Blob Storage – without development effort or costly and time-consuming rewrites.

Scality Connect is offered as an application in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Users with an Azure Marketplace subscription can select Connect from the marketplace and start an instance hosted in their Azure account. The firm also implemented Connect as a stateless service that is hosted on a VM within a customer’s Azure subscription.

Connect uses native Azure Blob Storage API calls to map S3 buckets and objects to containers and blobs. This means that data stored in Azure Blob Storage through Connect is not obfuscated in any way or stored in a proprietary format.

Deployment model and architecture drive benefits:

Fast and easy deployment through a few clicks in the marketplace
S3 API compatible for bucket, objects and multi-part upload operations
Stateless architecture enables scale-out of performance, load balancing and failover
Data stored in Azure Blob Storage is in native container and blob format, so it can be accessed directly from other Azure applications and services.

Try Connect for Azure Blob Storage
Connect will automatically translate Amazon S3 API calls to Azure blob storage API calls. It stores data in Azure native format so you can access data with Azure cloud services such as Cortana Analytics, PowerBI, or Azure ML toolsets.

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