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Versity is a data storage company that provides archiving software for large data collections.

History
Versity was co-founded in 2011 by Bruce Gilpin, previously COO of MobiTV and Harriet Coverston, creator of the Quick File System (QFS). Initially self-funded, Versity received an investment by Cray in 2013. In 2013, Versity released Versity Storage Manager (VSM1), a Linux-based archiving system based on QFS and the Storage Archive Manager (SAM). In 2018, Verity released ScoutFS, the first GPL archiving file system. The Silicon Review named Versity one of the top ten fastest growing storage companies of 2019, along with Panasas and Pure Storage.

Products
Versity produces software for managing large scale digital archives using Linux as the base operating system. Their products are licensed under an open-core model.

VSM1
VSM1 is an archive management tool based on SAM-QFS and running on Linux, released in 2013. It manages data across disk, tape, cloud, and object based storage systems. As of 2016, VSM1 was being used by 10 - 20 customers to manage a total of more than 250 petabytes across 10 - 20 customers.

VSM2
VSM2 is the first GPL-licensed archive management tool, created by Versity and in pre-beta as of 2019. VSM2 is composed of two parts: Scout File System (ScoutFS) and Scout Archive Manager (ScoutAM), both running on Linux.