Scality Recognized by Everything Channel's CRN Magazine as One of the Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors

San Francisco, CA – May 19th, 2011 – Cloud storage system pioneer Scality today announced it was named one of the Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors by Everything Channel’s CRN. The comprehensive list highlights the most innovative cloud vendors and solutions for the channel - including storage cloud offerings, security cloud offerings, cloud apps, cloud infrastructure and cloud platforms to assist solution providers in navigating the cloud phenomena successfully.

"This year’s Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors list is based on a cloud vendor’s approach to creating an innovative product, or an innovative approach to supporting solution providers in the IT channel," said Kelley Damore, Vice President and Editorial Director CRN. "Exactly, these Cloud vendors help resellers transform themselves into true service providers and help organizations and enterprises take advantage of the ease, flexibility, scalability, elasticity and cost savings that leveraging cloud computing has to offer."

Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality, said, "Scality was created to address the pain points service providers faced as they attempted to manage their growth profitably and efficiently. Our partnerships with the channel are key to our growth as we address these issues with them. Scality’s inclusion on CRN’s list of the Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors is a very welcome acknowledgement of our – and many of our partners’ – dedication to providing scalable, inexpensive and high-performance cloud storage."

The developer of RING

About ScalityScality is the developer of RING, an application centric cloud storage system, enabling cloud storage to easily scale up to exabytes using commodity server hardware with direct attached storage. Scality delivers the performance and reliability of a SAN- or NAS-based architecture without the hassles of volume management. Scality RING is based on a patented object storage research, which delivers high availability, ease of operations and total control of data. For more information please visit www.scality.com or follow Scality on Twitter: @Scality.

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