Day Two Cloud 103: Scality ARTESCA Is More Than An Object Store (Sponsored)

On today’s Day Two Cloud podcast we talk storage with sponsor Scality, a storage software vendor. In this episode we explore its ARTESCA platform, which the company positions as cloud-native object storage designed for modern workloads. It can integrate with your Kubernetes environment, serve as storage for your public cloud, and more. We dive into the product architecture, use cases, and hardware options via Scality’s partnership with HPE. Our guests from Scality are Brad King, co-founder and CTO; and Nicolas Trangez, Principal Architect. We’re also joined by Carol Bassett, Product Mgr, Storage and Big Data at HPE. We discuss: * Scality’s storage software and the ARTESCA platform * ARTESCA as object storage, and why that matters * Storage hardware options, including HPE gear * Deploying and managing storage in a Kubernetes environment * More Show Links: ARTESCA – Scality Gorilla Guide – to modern object storage for cloud-native applications Gorilla Guide – to object storage for data at the edge Scality.com @scality Transcript: [00:00:06.300] – Ned Welcome to Day Two Cloud. Today is a sponsored episode with Scality and we’re going be talking about their brand new platform, ARTESCA. And you know what? ARTESCA is more than just an object store. It’s more than just one storage system. And that’s one of the things that we learned over the course of this episode. [00:00:24.600] – Ethan Yeah, I thought this was like a it’s like a really fast tier one storage array. No, that is not what is all about. It can be that, but it is other things. It will integrate tightly into your kubernetes environment. It can be storage for a public cloud. It can be a lot of things. In fact, I ask a question partway through. It’s like it’s kind of like a storage proxy. And I was kind of right and a little bit wrong in that. [00:00:48.030] – Ethan Anyway, you need to listen to the show to understand what Scality ARTESCA is all about for modern workloads. It fits into a lot of interesting scenarios. [00:00:57.880] – Ned Yeah, and we got a lot of those scenarios from Brad King, who’s the co-founder of Scalilty, he is on the podcast, as well as Nicolas Trangez. He’s the principle architect from Scality so he can talk to the whole architecture behind it. And we even get into some hardware, some actual physical hardware with Carol Bassett from HPE because they have a partnership going there. So enjoy this episode with Scality [00:01:21.240] – Ned Scality Crew. Welcome to Day Two Cloud. And for those who are not so familiar, maybe with Scality as an organization, can you tell me what is Scality historically known for? And Brad, I’m going to hand that one over to you first. [00:01:37.090] – Brad So Scality is known for storage, we are a software company, we developed the technology a little over 10 years ago. It’s a distributed storage platform that does object storage, filesystem, and object storage, in fact, is a native platform. And we’re known for scale. That’s where the name comes from. We have lots of multiple petabyte platforms around the world. So we’re known for, I would say, mission-critical, really massive storage platforms based on truly software defined model. [00:02:09.