Newest Release Of Scality ARTESCA Unveiled

Scality has announced its newest release of Scality ARTESCA, its class-leading simple, secure S3 object storage software for data deployments starting at a few terabytes.

Over a dozen innovations in ARTESCA 2.0 strengthen cyber resiliency through a hardened, reduced attack surface that minimises security risks with best-of-breed data immutability for increased ransomware protection — all at entry-level pricing starting at under $4,000 per year, including 24x7 support.

An expanded choice of deployment options gives customers the freedom to choose from secure software and virtual appliances to best suit their business requirements.

Renaud Massé, director of infrastructure, AP-HM, said: "After an in-depth competitive study on alternative flash and purpose-built backup appliances in 2022, we opted for an ARTESCA solution delivering 1 usable petabyte for our backup production data. Our decision was motivated by the simplicity of the software appliance, excellent performance on backup and especially for restores, as well as strong security around the S3 protocol. ARTESCA gives us all of these values plus an efficient cost per TB in a configuration that can seamlessly double capacity to 2 PB."

Scality first launched ARTESCA, the leading lightweight, cloud-native object store, in the spring of 2021, and its fast ramp continues with a projected ARR growth rate of another 300% in 2023. ARTESCA deployments typically range between 100-500 TB with the potential to grow more as needed. Top early adopters of ARTESCA’s simple, secure and easy-to-deploy software-defined object store include government & public sector (including cities and local public organisations), manufacturing, finance, healthcare, medical imaging, media & entertainment and small deployments for service providers implementing BaaS offerings for clients.

Now, with a focus on the needs of today’s security-conscious organisations, this latest release of ARTESCA adds innovations that build upon the best-in-class simplicity and lightweight object storage capabilities that ARTESCA has boasted from its inception:

• New hardened attack surface for greater ransomware protection
• A new integrated, security-hardened and minimal Linux Operating System that precludes OS access, reduces exposure to critical vulnerability exposures (CVEs) that are endemic to Linux packages, and limits a wide range of potential malicious attacks
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for secure administrator UI login, making it harder for a malicious actor to log in
• Identity and access management (IAM) policies for secure access from the Veeam® Data Platform
• Immutability at the API layer through S3 object locking on top of intrinsic immutable object storage
• Lockdown of unused network ports to further reduce the attack surface.
• To simplify network security management, ARTESCA now automatically configures firewall rules upon deployment.

New deployment options provide increased freedom of choice for customers
ARTESCA software appliance with integrated secure and minimal Linux OS, with automated patch upgrades to further simplify security management.
ARTESCA as a virtual appliance in OVA format for fast installation on VMware vSphere version 7.0 and later.

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