Scality RING's valuable features include S3 and CDMI compatibility for cloud applications, erasure coding for cost-effective storage security, data/metadata deployment across multiple sites, and customizable QoS for SLAs. Users value its performance, intuitive interface, UTIPI for billing, life cycle management for efficiency, and unlimited storage capacity accommodating large enterprises' needs.
- "Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency."
- "The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface."
- "I think it's the economic factor. This solution has the lowest cost for storage systems."
Scality RING could benefit from enhanced rebalancing processes during capacity upgrades and achieving full S3 compliance. Users experience challenges when extending capacity, needing improved ease of use. They seek to consolidate automation tools due to feature limitations and require additional optimization for diverse architectures. Large-scale users point to insufficient testing and hidden limitations, emphasizing the need for third-party optimization capabilities.
- "Scality RING is not easy to learn for someone new. It is a little bit difficult. There are a lot of components to it, and you also need to understand them to work with it effectively."
- "Scality RING8 could improve by having more features. We have to use two automation tools to meet our needs. We would prefer to use only one."
- "When we used this solution in 2015, it was not scalable at all. I don't know if they have improved on that, but at the time, scalability was just horrible."