In a significant development for the data infrastructure sector, Scality has unveiled Scality ADI (Autonomous Data Infrastructure), a platform engineered to support organisations in managing multiple AI workloads while bolstering cybersecurity measures and retaining data sovereignty.
This innovative infrastructure integrates Scality’s established distributed object storage solutions with Guardian, an autonomous AI-powered operational engine, designed to ease the administrative load while retaining human oversight.
Integration with existing solutions
Scality ADI integrates seamlessly with RING and ARTESCA, Scality's current offerings for distributed storage and unchangeable backup solutions. The platform is equipped to handle various storage media within a unified space, utilising policy-driven lifecycle management to match each workload's performance and economic demands. This approach offers a sophisticated response to contemporary challenges in enterprise data infrastructure.
Scality's current offerings for distributed storage and unchangeable backup solutions
AI-driven workloads, covering areas such as training, inference, and video summarisation, require new levels of throughput, latency, and governance. As the sophistication of cyber threats increases, and regulatory demands intensify, Scality ADI is built to meet these challenges while adhering to modern data centre design constraints. Traditional systems often struggle with performance and cost balance, but Scality ADI is engineered for future-forward sustainability without introducing additional complexity.
Proven storage solutions
Leveraging over 15 years of innovation, Scality RING has set benchmarks for resilience in large-scale distributed storage environments, serving clients managing data on a petabyte to exabyte scale. ARTESCA complements this with its robust approach to data protection, underpinned by a $100,000 cyber assurance. Together, these products form the backbone of Scality ADI’s data storage strategy.
At the heart of Scality ADI is the Guardian operations engine, which utilises AI to streamline maintenance tasks such as expansion and upgrades, while ensuring that all actions are verified by human administrators. Organisations can expand Guardian's capabilities with their own AI solutions and automation workflows, making ADI a flexible platform for various operational requirements.
Optimising performance and cost
Core to Scality ADI is the CORE5 cyber resilience feature, safeguarding data against corruption
The design of Scality ADI, which accommodates multiple storage types, ensures high performance and efficient cost management. Operators can leverage NVMe SSD, HDD, and cloud storage, optimising resource allocation for diverse workload demands. Tools like the RDMA-accelerated KV cache connector enhance processing speeds while balancing economic considerations through devices like QLC and HDD.
Core to Scality ADI is the CORE5 cyber resilience feature, safeguarding data against corruption. Real-time telemetry allows teams to monitor power consumption down to granular levels, tying usage to operational and environmental goals. Open-code software availability ensures transparency and sustainability, with service-level agreements maintaining operational accountability.
Comments from industry pioneers
Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality, stated, “The AI era hasn’t just changed how enterprises use data, it has exposed how badly the old storage model was broken. Scality ADI isn’t just a faster object store. It’s a new operating model that autonomously aligns the right performance, protection, and economics to every workload.” Manuel Paviotti from Groupama G2S highlighted the integral role of Scality’s solutions in enhancing operational capability securely and efficiently.
Simon Robinson of Omdia emphasised the importance of operational governance, praising Scality ADI for its accountable and transparent approach to AI infrastructure management. This solution is currently accessible through Scality’s global partner network, positioned as a pivotal tool for organisations navigating complex data environments.
Scality, a pioneer in data infrastructure software for the AI era, announces Scality ADI (Autonomous Data Infrastructure), a sustainable data infrastructure platform designed for organisations that must simultaneously power diverse AI workloads, defend against escalating cyber threats, and maintain sovereign control over their data.
Scality ADI combines Scality’s proven distributed object storage foundation with Guardian, an AI-powered autonomous operations engine that dramatically reduces administrative burden while keeping humans in the loop for every decision. The platform spans multiple storage media classes within a single namespace, with policy-driven lifecycle management that lets organisations align the right performance and economics to each workload. RING and ARTESCA, Scality’s trusted solutions for large-scale distributed storage and immutable backup storage, continue as core products in the portfolio.
Multimodal agentic workflows
The demands on enterprise data infrastructure have fundamentally changed. AI is no longer a single workload. It spans training, inference, multimodal agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), video search and summarisation (VSS), and KV cache for distributed inference. Each has radically different requirements for throughput, latency, and data governance. At the same time, cyber threats have grown more sophisticated, regulators demand provable resilience, and power constraints have become hard design limits in modern data centres.
Traditional storage architectures, designed for predictable growth and isolated tiers, force painful tradeoffs between performance, resilience, cost, and control. Organisations do not need another storage product with yet increased complexity. They need sustainable data infrastructure built for the decades ahead.
Object storage solution
Scality ADI builds on more than 15 years of innovation. Scality RING, deployed by the world’s most demanding organisations for large-scale distributed storage, has proven its resilience and scalability at multi-petabyte to exabyte scale for over a decade.
ARTESCA, Scality’s backup-first object storage solution with CORE5 end-to-end cyber resilience and a $100,000 cyber guarantee, has become a trusted foundation for immutable data protection. Both products continue and remain central to Scality’s portfolio. Scality ADI represents the next chapter: a product purpose-built for the new realities that AI, sovereign data requirements, and sustainability constraints impose on enterprise infrastructure.
Autonomous operations engine
Scality ADI introduces capabilities that go beyond what any single storage product can deliver. Scality Guardian, its autonomous operations engine, uses AI-powered agents to handle expansion, healing, rebalancing, upgrades, and lifecycle workflows, dramatically reducing the administrative burden on infrastructure teams.
Every operation follows a human-in-the-loop principle: Scality Guardian surfaces insights and recommends actions, but humans approve and control every decision. Beyond built-in Guardian intelligence, MCP-enabled extensibility allows organisations to integrate their own AI tools and automation workflows directly into ADI operations, so the platform can be driven by a customer’s own AI stack, not just Scality’s.
Extreme performance requirements
Its software-defined, disaggregated architecture spans NVMe SSD (TLC/QLC), HDD, tape and cloud storage within a single namespace, while policy-driven lifecycle management, defined and approved by operators, aligns the right media, performance, and economics to each workload:
- It can deliver the extreme performance requirements of GPUs at multi-TB/s and ultra-low latency thanks to our new RDMA-accelerated KV cache connector.
- QLC, HDD and future NL-flash deliver balanced performance at an attractive cost of ownership.
- Long-term archives achieve near-zero power consumption on tape or cloud ice cold storage.
Data centre constraints
CORE5 cyber resilience ensures data remains immutable, recoverable, and auditable at every level. Real-time power telemetry gives infrastructure teams visibility into consumption at system, node, and workload levels, connecting performance decisions to actual data centre constraints.
Scality ADI is delivered as open-code software with the source code available for inspection and governed contributions to support both longevity and transparency in mission-critical environments. It is also backed by outcome-based SLAs spanning availability, performance, protection posture, power consumption, and operational efficiency. It is designed for large enterprises, government organisations, and sovereign environments where trust, longevity, and inspectability are as important as technical performance.
Maintaining sovereign control
“The AI era hasn’t just changed how enterprises use data, it has exposed how badly the old storage model was broken. Scality ADI isn’t just a faster object store. It’s a new operating model that autonomously aligns the right performance, protection, and economics to every workload, at every stage of the data lifecycle. That’s what it takes to keep GPUs productive, satisfy regulators and insurers, and maintain sovereign control, all at the same time, and at exabyte scale. We are not replacing what works. We are building what comes next,” said Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality.
“We have relied on Scality RING as a core storage platform of our private cloud since 2021, and it has consistently delivered the scale, resilience, and performance our operations require. Scality ADI and its Guardian autonomous operations represent exactly the evolution we need - AI-enabled infrastructure management that will allow our teams to operate more efficiently while maintaining the security and control standards our business demands,” said Manuel Paviotti, Manager Backup & Storage, Groupama G2S.
Mission-critical environments
“Our research underscores that building the right data infrastructure is critical in evolving enterprise AI from PoC to operational scale that meets the realities and responsibilities of complex, modern organisations. Yet, the conversation around autonomous infrastructure has too often defaulted to marketing language without addressing the governance question enterprises care about.”
“Scality ADI takes a more credible approach, with operational intelligence through policy-governed execution, where agents surface recommendations and actions occur within auditable bounds, on an architecture ideally suited to the regulated, sovereign, and mission-critical environments where trust in the platform is as important as its technical performance.” Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst, Omdia. Scality ADI is available now through Scality’s global network of channel partners and strategic alliance partners.
