Dell ObjectScale vs Scality RING comparison

Dell Technologies and Scality are both solutions in the File and Object Storage category. Dell Technologies is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.3, while Scality is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.2. Dell Technologies holds a 7.7% mindshare in FaOS, compared to Scality’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Scality users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 26, 2025

Scality RING and Dell ObjectScale are key competitors in the object storage solution market. Scality RING has a pricing edge in large-scale scenarios due to its lower per-GB cost, while Dell ObjectScale gains an advantage with its integration capabilities within the Dell ecosystem.

Features:Scality RING supports vast scalability with its unlimited storage potential, S3 and CDMI compatibility, and resilient architecture. It provides excellent cost-saving measures through erasure coding and offers customizable SLAs for different applications. Dell ObjectScale excels with its seamless integration with other Dell solutions, high power efficiency, and geo-replication features for effective disaster recovery.

Room for Improvement:Scality RING could enhance its S3 compatibility and simplify its update process. Additional improvements could be made in UI complexity and data encryption. Dell ObjectScale would benefit from broader cost reductions and better multi-vendor integration for cloud systems, along with improvements in disaster recovery and support structures.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Scality RING is often deployed on-premises with commendable technical support, though faster response times are sought. Dell ObjectScale, also used on-premises, is praised for its integration capabilities but has a more complicated initial setup. Its customer support, while reliable, could be more immediately responsive.

Pricing and ROI:Scality RING offers competitive ROI with a predictable cost structure due to its pay-as-you-grow model, suitable for large-scale enterprises. Dell ObjectScale presents cost-effective solutions within the Dell ecosystem but may seem costly compared to standalone options due to bundled hardware expenses. Both products ensure attractive ROI through their distinct advantages in cost and integration capabilities.

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Dell ObjectScale vs. Scality RING

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

8.5

Pure Storage FlashBlade boosts ROI by reducing costs, enhancing efficiencies, increasing VM density, and saving 20%-85% in time.

Sentiment score

4.9

Dell ObjectScale and ECS enhance data availability and cost-effectiveness, providing stability and savings for tech infrastructure needs.

Sentiment score

7.3

Scality RING provides cost-effective storage reducing operating costs, but security and redundancy may increase expenses for some users.

It does not require much management once you set up correctly, so it saves time, allowing an admin to focus on other work.

Parul-Patel

System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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I think RING's ability to maintain predictable costs while providing scalable storage solutions impacts our budget by allowing us to pay only for capacity.

Sebastien Foucou

Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

For instance, while the cost per gig on a block storage platform may be $2, it's $1.50 for NAS, and only $0.50 for object storage, leading to a remarkable 75% reduction in costs by utilizing the Scality platform.

reviewer2713596

Storage Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Scality RING has reduced our operating costs.

Thierry Diot

Engineer at MinArm

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.0

Pure Storage FlashBlade support is praised for responsiveness and knowledge but criticized for slower responses and occasional language barriers.

Sentiment score

6.8

Dell ObjectScale support is efficient in China, struggles in Taiwan, with mixed feedback due to integration and global challenges.

Sentiment score

6.8

Scality RING's customer service is praised for expert, responsive support, with personalized help making most users highly satisfied.

I would rate them an eight out of ten.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at Unisys

The support is done through email and is not that great, making it a very problematic area I've been dealing with for over four years.

Parul-Patel

System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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There is a lack of SUSE Linux experts which affects the level of support.

SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

The response time and quality of the technical support are satisfactory.

reviewer1344021

Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Customer support is generally good but sometimes struggles with complex issues.

Mahmoud Abuherra

Manager, Technical Services at AXS

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I've always received responses within the required timeframe, the answers were technically relevant, and there was follow-up—people called us back to check if everything was okay and if the ticket could be closed.

Sebastien Foucou

Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Individuals such as Peter Mikolastik really make a difference by saying, 'Come on, what is the problem? I will help you,' rather than just brushing things off.

reviewer2716008

data center manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Technically, when we have major issues in P1, they are very responsive and we can't say that we don't get a response.

reviewer2702499

Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.8

Pure Storage FlashBlade is praised for scalability, ease of expansion, and support, despite some areas needing improvement.

Sentiment score

7.6

Dell ObjectScale is praised for its scalability, easily accommodating enterprises' storage needs with flexibility and support for numerous users.

Sentiment score

7.1

Scality RING offers high scalability and adaptability, though experiences vary with rebalancing challenges and some seeking improvement.

Pure Storage FlashBlade is scalable.

Parul-Patel

System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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Through the fabrics, it provides the clustering, allowing us to add nodes easily.

SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

It allows scale-out processes by adding extra nodes, providing flexibility for customers to increase capacity on demand.

Mahmoud Abuherra

Manager, Technical Services at AXS

I would rate scalability between eight or nine, as it provides a good ability to scale and expand storage.

reviewer1344021

Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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Upwards, I think, almost unlimited by what we can imagine.

reviewer2711367

System Engineer - Head of Engineering at a retailer with 11-50 employees

I've never had issues with scalability.

Sebastien Foucou

Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are relatively well informed about their new features, what will be implemented in future versions, and the scalability of the solution.

reviewer2702499

Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.8

Pure Storage FlashBlade is praised for its impressive stability and reliability, with minimal disruptions and consistent uptime even during upgrades.

Sentiment score

8.0

Dell ObjectScale is highly reliable, with users rating its stability up to 9.5 and reporting no major issues.

Sentiment score

7.4

Scality RING offers dependable performance with high uptime, seamless maintenance, quick recovery, and strong resilience against failures.

In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at Unisys

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We have not experienced any outages in the last four years.

Arun Mohanty

Associate Vice President at Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

We use it in very critical areas inside Saudi Arabia with critical customers.

RamziMadi

Solution arhitect at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

I'd rate stability maybe 9.5 out of ten.

reviewer1685442

Senior Datacenter Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

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It is a platform that is very stable at the customer level and does not generate incidents or blockages that you might encounter with standard storage solutions, where you can lose data.

reviewer2702499

Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I find that Scality RING is very stable because it allows for many maintenance operations without service loss.

Sebastien Foucou

Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

There are factors that can cause Scality RING to become occasionally unavailable, but due to the system's resilience, it is capable of recovering or degrading gracefully.

reviewer2707281

Senior ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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Room For Improvement

Users seek better cloud integration, enhanced deduplication, improved support, protocol enhancements, simpler configuration, and a more intuitive interface.

Dell ObjectScale needs better support, integration, security, usability, documentation, cloud compatibility, and enhanced performance, scalability, and analytics.

Scality RING requires improvements in rebalancing, feature expansion, UI, administration, S3 compatibility, and performance during scaling and upgrades.

Technical support definitely needs significant improvement.

Parul-Patel

System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Its configuration should be easier.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at Unisys

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Live logs should be viewable through the GUI like with Logstash or Elasticsearch.

reviewer1344021

Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The deployment is not easy, and some expertise is required to configure the virtual data center and replication groups.

SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

Incorporating extra integrations beyond S3, like Hadoop file systems, and being well aligned with trends like AI solutions would be beneficial.

Mahmoud Abuherra

Manager, Technical Services at AXS

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Encryption and data security need improvement. We don't have a solution for customers who need confidentiality.

reviewer2702499

Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

They should prioritize quality over timeliness to minimize customer disruptions and not force customers into a cycle of fixes that interfere with daily work.

reviewer2713596

Storage Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

What we are currently missing and will be demanding in the new tender is an additional external backup of all data, ideally on a simple system, to safeguard against any severe local incidents so that we still have the data protected elsewhere.

reviewer2716008

data center manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Setup Cost

Pure Storage FlashBlade offers high performance and features, justifying its cost with no extra software fees and fixed support costs.

Dell ObjectScale offers competitive pricing with options, but flexibility and potential high costs may impact appeal.

Scality RING targets enterprises with 10 PB needs, high setup costs, expandable licenses, and "Pay As You Grow" model appeal.

The pricing of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection.

Parul-Patel

System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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It relies on nearline SAS drives, which are cheaper than flash or SSDs.

Mahmoud Abuherra

Manager, Technical Services at AXS

The pricing model is on the higher side compared to other vendors.

reviewer1344021

Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The price is reasonable given the abundance of features, including managing, control, host resources, dockers, and containers.

SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

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Fortunately, in terms of the license, we are able to expand the disks without having to adjust the license.

reviewer2711367

System Engineer - Head of Engineering at a retailer with 11-50 employees

In the end, it always depends on how much you pay for it.

reviewer2707281

Senior ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Regarding setup costs and licensing, our initial experience is somewhat dated now as we made a comprehensive purchase, including hardware, software, and system setup, which Scality handled at the time.

reviewer2716008

data center manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Pure Storage FlashBlade offers fast, scalable, and user-friendly storage with efficient integration, analytics, and versatility for diverse needs.

Dell ObjectScale excels with S3 protocol, integration, scalability, and user-praised pricing, stability, and support for unstructured data management.

Scality RING excels in scalability, S3 integration, performance, and cost-effectiveness, offering robust security, data protection, and easy administration.

We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at Unisys

The best features of Pure Storage FlashBlade include better throughput and better performance.

Parul-Patel

System admin at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

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The stability of this solution is a major advantage, as we've not experienced any outages in the last four years.

Arun Mohanty

Associate Vice President at Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Dell ECS helps with managing storage requirements since it's S3 kind of object storage with all needed enterprise features such as immutability, snapshotting, and application management, which are nice sets of features usually required.

AlgimantasSlabada

IT Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

If we encounter any issues or need to upgrade anything, we can simply open a ticket, and the EMC team is there to assist us.

reviewer1344021

Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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When a server is lost, the data is still accessible.

reviewer2702499

Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

It is even better stored when there is only one copy on a system and there is a second copy on an immutability system, which is almost equivalent to backing it up on tape and taking it offline, making it completely inaccessible.

reviewer2711367

System Engineer - Head of Engineering at a retailer with 11-50 employees

Scality RING has influenced our approach to scaling in different dimensions by providing a cost-effective solution for the tremendous amount of data we generate every day for each customer.

reviewer2713596

Storage Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 5.8%, down from 6.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell ObjectScale is 7.7%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Scality RING is 4.2%, up from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Eric Black

Solutions Architect at Recovery Point Systems

The ability to leverage multi-tenancy along with immutability is a huge benefit for us

The only thing I feel FlashBlade is missing is the SOS API. If it had SOS API, that would put it well over the top. Veeam Backup specifically has started to streamline their API, and they are doing that with SOS API. They have optimized it. Any of the S3 devices out there that support this SOS API can have far more API calls at once. On our side, that translates to better restoration. With SOS API, it can leverage far more restorations at a single given time or read from the device in simple terms. That results in maximizing the output and throughput from the device itself.

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SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

Managing efficiently with user-friendly interfaces for monitoring and managing resources

We normally recommend Dell ECS to enterprise customers and government customers Dell ECS is very easy to handle, primarily because the web UI dashboard and everything is very easy to manage for every customer. They can monitor the DPS, access failures, bandwidth, failed requests, and latency.…

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Sebastien Foucou

Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Leverages seamless data access with efficient storage management

I would improve Scality RING by bundling the Operating System with RING and modernizing the graphical interfaces. As for areas for improvement—if I had to summarize—a technical aspect would be the Operating System part, which today isn't really covered by Scality RING, whereas it is with Artesca. It would be a real advantage for customers to have a bundle that includes both the Operating System and Scality RING, with an install and maintenance model handled by Scality. Secondly, perhaps a more cosmetic point—the graphical interfaces could be modernized a bit. There's been work done on Artesca; maybe it should be extended more to RING. I believe that should come with version 10, so I'm not too concerned. I find RING's cyber resilience against ransomware threats somewhat complicated to assess. The product itself offers sufficient protection, and the features provided via S3 allow you to protect against this kind of attack—provided you implement these features, such as object lock with retention and everything that goes with it. If I had to identify an area for improvement, it would be the OS part—but that doesn't necessarily concern RING, unlike Artesca, which comes bundled with an OS. There's been real work done by the Scality teams to secure the system layer in Artesca. It didn't influence us. We know the product and what needs to be implemented to protect data, and it's part of the best practices we also pass on to our clients.

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

21%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?

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What do you like most about Dell EMC ECS?

The tool is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC ECS?

The pricing is moderate and at par with the market. As a service provider, we receive good margins, indicating a favo...

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC ECS?

It's difficult for me to comment on improvements for Dell ECS because we typically do not engage in those areas. We h...

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What do you like most about Scality RING8?

Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency.

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What needs improvement with Scality RING8?

The advantage of using Scality RING is that all data stored is protected via Erasure Coding on the ring system. We ha...

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The main use cases for Scality RING involve data that needs to be stored long-term and that we do not want to keep in...

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Also Known As

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EMC ECS, Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)

Scality RING, RING8

Overview

FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

Pure Storage

Dell ObjectScale is a next-generation S3 object storage platform known for scalability, performance, and efficiency. It integrates with Dell EMC products, combining hardware and software for seamless user experience in the AI era.

Dell ObjectScale implements the S3 protocol, integrating smoothly with Dell EMC solutions like ISILON. Its architecture supports data compression and interoperates with multiple protocols for enhanced performance. Enterprise features include immutability, geo-replication, and user-friendly management. However, it needs better integration with other systems, enhanced security, and disaster recovery. Write performance and scalability improvements, competitive pricing, and documentation enhancements are key areas for progress. The interface could be more straightforward, with more remote management features and native analytics.

What features does Dell ObjectScale offer?

S3 Protocol Implementation: Brings industry-standard access with wide application compatibility
Seamless Dell EMC Integration: Ensures stability and ease of use with existing systems
Data Compression and Protocol Interoperability: Enhances performance and storage efficiency
Immutability and Geo-Replication: Provides enterprise-level data protection
Optimized Pricing: Balances cost with comprehensive support

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Scalability: Supports expanding data requirements effectively
Integration Flexibility: Works with many existing systems for better interoperability
Ease of Management: Streamlines hardware and software operations
Enterprise-Level Features: Delivers advanced protection and efficiency

Industries leverage Dell ObjectScale for cloud-based object storage, archiving, and backups. It's favored for unstructured data management, CCTV integration, and document archiving. Strong in data analytics, it integrates well with high-capacity applications, enhancing data retention strategies across fields.

Dell Technologies

Scality RING is the scalable and resilient object storage solution designed for modern workloads, providing seamless data protection against evolving cyber threats.

Scality RING leverages S3 object storage to meet unpredictable demands with a patented MultiScale Architecture that offers limitless scalability across capacity, performance, and more. It delivers end-to-end cyber resilience with CORE5 for ransomware protection, while its cloud-style economics and intuitive management empower enterprises to accelerate AI initiatives and optimize cloud deployments. Its flexibility is ideal for service providers managing extensive data needs.

What are the key features of Scality RING?

S3 and CDMI Support: Ensures compatibility for application needs.
Erasure Coding: Provides cost-efficient, durable storage.
Unified Tiered Infrastructure: Aids billing per IOPS.
Lifecycle Management: Optimizes storage utilization.
Unlimited Scalability: Ideal for large enterprise demands.
Data/Metadata Ring Deployment: Ensures robust performance and tailored SLAs.

What benefits or ROI should users expect?

Economic Value: Offers cost-effective storage solutions.
Effective Support: Enhances collaboration through responsive assistance.
Improved Flexibility: Adaptable deployment models for complex needs.

Scality RING is extensively implemented in backup solutions across industries, supporting platforms like Veeam and CommVault. It aids in storage expansion and management of large data volumes alongside multi-site architectures. While not leading in AI spaces due to performance constraints, there's potential with faster disk support. It's also used in archives, binary lakes, multimedia services, and AI data lakes.

Scality

Sample Customers

ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL

Atos

Comcast, TimeWarner Cable, EuroSport, Orange, Deluxe, DailtMotion, SFR, RTL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Telstra

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