As cloud native applications gain space in the IT ​​architecture, storage solutions also have to evolve to keep up with new needs, such as adaptability, portability and efficiency.

With this in mind, software-defined object storage company Scality Inc. has launched ARTESCA, a cloud native solution that aims to provide storage for container instances across on-premises data centers, edge and the cloud, according to Jerome Lecat (pictured, left), chief executive officer of Scality.

“What we see is that people want something that’s lightweight, especially because it had to go to the edge, [but] they still want the enterprise grid that Scality is known for,” he said. “And it has to be modern –what we really mean by modern is that we see object storage now being the primary storage for more and more applications, and so we have to be able to deliver the performance that primary storage expects.”

Lecat and Chris Tinker (pictured, right), distinguished technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, for a digital CUBE Conversation. They discussed how IT has evolved into a truly distributed automated system, the new characteristics and demands of the growing hybrid cloud environment, and how Scality and HPE partnered to bring storage solutions on-premise and at the edge. (* Disclosure below.)

Scalability is a key feature

Designed as a software-defined solution, ARTESCA can be deployed starting with a single server and growing easily over time, wherever data is, from the core to the edge, according to Tinker.

“We figured out how … to start small but not limit a customer’s ability to scale it out incrementally or grotesquely, depending on the quarters, the month, whatever the workload is,” he said.

ARTESCA is available in the HPE portfolio through an exclusive six-month agreement and as a cloud service through HPE GreenLake. Customers can procure it thought both companies.

“From the code base, the software is entirely designed and developed by Scality,” Lecat explained. “From testing and performance, this really was a joint work with HPE providing both hardware and manpower so that we could accelerate the testing phase.”

App owners, DevOps and architects are the targets

The solution mainly targets three types of customers. One is application owners who are deploying an application that requires an object store in the backend. “They want it to be simple and work,” Lecat said.

The second type of audience for ARTESCA is made up of developers who are currently working on some capabilities or cloud native application.

“They’re developing something; they need an object store that they can develop on, so they want it very lightweight. But they also want the product that their enterprise or their customers will be able to rely on for years and years on,” he explained.

Finally, other potential customers are architects who are designing very distributed systems that will have some local storage, as well as edge storage. In this infrastructure, they want to replicate data to the core and possibly also to the cloud, which is a great fit for ARTESCA, according to Lecat.

“In the world of enterprise, where customers are looking to simplify operations [and] then take advantage of new applications, analytic workloads, how do I actually take those technologies, embrace a modern scale-out storage stack without breaking the bank?’” Tinker said. “And that’s why we look for object storage capabilities, because it brings us this massive parallelization.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage. (* Disclosure: This segment was sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Neither HPE nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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