During HPE Discover 2015 event from London, high-performance storage again emerged as a topic of engaging discussion. San Francisco-based Scality, Inc. is a software company that produces a software product called the Scality RING for large-scale data storage. The company is a sponsor of the HPE event, and they are in a partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE). They are in the business of software-defined, on-demand and nearline storage systems.

Bill Mannel, VP and GM of high-performance computing and Big Data at HPE, and Erwan Menard, president and COO of Scality, spoke with John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, in a lively discussion about storage advantages and the relationship.

The need for capacity-driven storage solutions

The partnership between the two companies has been going on for a while, but really accelerated last year when the partnership was formalized. Scality is now integrated into 75 petabytes worth of data for dozens of customers around the world. The 3PAR portfolio is a powerful ingredient of this formula, and it has given them a tremendous opportunity with capacity-driven storage solutions.

What was once the stuff of hyperscale storage is now seeing use cases in the enterprise as demand for better, faster storage is trending ever higher. One unique aspect of the 3PAR proposition along with Scality is the ability to deliver on data demands across the spectrum, creating “ensembles” of performance on one platform. Different time and performance demands mean diverse values that can deliver for engineering groups, analysis, modeling, simulation, analytics and many more enterprise uses.

On-demand video streaming

Half of the market is still focused on active archiving, but there is a rising emergence of performance-driven cases that includes video streaming that is on-demand. One of the key benefits of this flexible, capable technology is that companies can ingest and distribute from a sole storage pool.

The full interview is below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover 2015 — London. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting live with theCUBE hosts during the event.

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