Scality is a private storage software company focused on cyber-resilient S3 object storage and autonomous data infrastructure for organizations managing fast-growing unstructured data. Its portfolio is designed for AI, cloud infrastructure, backup, archive, and other large-scale workloads where durability, security, and operational continuity matter.
The company positions its software as a way to help customers scale from petabytes to exabytes without locking into proprietary hardware. Recent portfolio expansion adds autonomous operations for AI-era infrastructure while preserving Scality’s long-standing strength in file and object storage. Across its offerings, Scality combines software-defined deployment flexibility with multi-tenant controls, immutable data protection, and lifecycle-aware data placement for mission-critical environments.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Scality delivers software-defined storage capabilities spanning S3 object storage, unified file and object storage, autonomous operations, and cyber-resilient backup infrastructure. Its core platform strengths include MultiScale architecture for independent scaling of capacity, performance, and operations; CORE5 Cyber Resilience for layered data protection; and support for standard hardware, virtualized deployments, and private or sovereign cloud operating models.
For AI and modern cloud workloads, Scality adds AI-Connect integration, high-concurrency object access, lifecycle-based placement across flash, disk, tape, and cloud tiers, and secure multi-tenancy with AWS-compatible IAM controls. It also integrates with major backup and data protection ecosystems, including Veeam, Commvault, and Rubrik, and supports hybrid-cloud workflows across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments.
Products and Services
- Scality ADI: Autonomous data infrastructure for AI, cyber resilience, and sovereign cloud use cases. It combines autonomous operations, workload-aligned media agility, AI-scale object access, and built-in cyber resilience for multi-petabyte to exabyte environments.
- Scality RING: Scale-out file and object storage software for large cloud, backup, archive, analytics, media, and custom application environments. It is designed for multidimensional scale, secure multi-tenancy, and long-life deployment flexibility.
- Scality ARTESCA: Backup-first S3 object storage software built for immutable, ransomware-resistant data protection. It is designed for fast deployment and straightforward management on standard servers or virtual machines.
- CORE5 Cyber Resilience: Scality’s five-layer cyber resilience framework that embeds immutability, access protection, data durability, metadata protection, multi-site recoverability, and policy enforcement into the storage architecture.
- Scality RING XP: An all-flash, AI-optimized configuration of Scality RING built for extreme low-latency object storage workloads such as model training, fine-tuning, inference, and other GPU-intensive pipelines.
- ARTESCA+ Veeam: A unified software appliance that combines Veeam Backup & Replication with Scality ARTESCA on a single host, simplifying deployment and operations for backup environments.
- ARTESCA+ Veeam HA: A high-availability version of the ARTESCA+ Veeam appliance that extends resilience across storage, backup software, and configuration services with automated failover.
Target Customers
Scality targets infrastructure leaders and IT teams running data-intensive, always-on environments. Its customer base spans large enterprises, cloud and managed service providers, government and public-sector organizations, healthcare and life sciences groups, and research institutions that need scalable storage for backup, archives, analytics, content repositories, and AI data pipelines.
The portfolio also maps to more specific operational buyers: backup application managers seeking immutable, ransomware-resistant storage; cloud builders that need secure multi-tenant S3 services; and organizations pursuing sovereign or hybrid-cloud architectures. With offerings that can start with focused backup deployments and extend to multi-petabyte and exabyte-scale platforms, Scality serves both mid-size IT teams and very large shared infrastructure environments.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Scality maintains an AWS Marketplace presence and supports AWS-aligned hybrid-cloud workflows, including S3-compatible operations, secure multi-tenancy, and replication or disaster recovery patterns that extend to AWS.
- Azure Marketplace: Scality references Azure Marketplace-based deployment in its Microsoft Azure alliance materials and supports Azure Blob interoperability, Azure-native data access patterns, and hybrid-cloud data management across on-premises and Azure environments.
- Google Cloud Platform: Scality identifies Google Cloud Platform as a cloud partner and supports hybrid-cloud replication and data movement for analytics, machine learning, and multicloud storage workflows.
Key People
- Jérôme Lecat: Chief Executive Officer
- Giorgio Regni: Chief Technology Officer
- Emilio Roman: Chief Revenue Officer
- Vincent Breuil: Chief Financial Officer
- Paul Speciale: Chief Marketing Officer
- Erwan Girard: Chief Product Officer
- Pierre Derome: SVP Engineering
- Roxanne Crossley: Chief of Staff and People Operations
- Benjamin Morge: VP of Customer Success
Key Facts
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
- Employees: Approximately 200 worldwide
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Private
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for File and Object Storage Platforms — Visionary.
- IDC: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Object-Based Storage 2019 Vendor Assessment — Leader.
