Object storage specialist Scality has become the first supplier to gain integration with VMware’s Cloud Director via OSIS (Object Storage Interoperability Service).
VMware Cloud Director provides deployment and management for cloud service providers and the move will allow Scality to get a head start in the market for regional cloud service provision, which it sees as a growing opportunity.
“Customers are often more interested in sovereign cloud, local cloud, because of geo-political turmoil that we see,” said Scality CEO Jerome Lecat. Also, customers often prefer local cloud because they want to deal with humans. And often they don’t use more than 5% of what AWS [Amazon Web Services] offers, technically.”
