Scality has unveiled Scality ADI (Autonomous Data Infrastructure), a new data infrastructure platform aimed at addressing the complex needs of modern organizations.
As enterprises face increasing AI workloads, mounting cybersecurity threats, and the necessity for data control, Scality ADI presents a sustainable solution by combining their existing distributed object storage technology with Guardian, an AI-driven operations engine designed to reduce administrative complexity while involving human oversight.
Enhanced Data Management
The platform integrates various storage media within a unified namespace, making use of policy-based lifecycle management to match performance and economic needs to specific workloads. Scality's established products, RING and ARTESCA, continue to play a pivotal role, supporting large-scale distributed storage and immutable backup. These solutions provide a reliable infrastructure foundation as enterprises transition into new data management paradigms.
The platform integrates various storage media within a unified namespace
The evolution of AI tasks, encompassing training, inferencing, multimodal agentic workflows, and more, demands infrastructure capable of handling diverse throughput, latency, and data management needs. Meanwhile, evolving cybersecurity threats, regulatory demands for resilience, and energy limitations in modern data centers necessitate a reevaluation of traditional storage solutions that struggle to address these varied requirements effectively.
Building on Proven Technologies
Scality ADI leverages over 15 years of expertise in scalable data solutions. The Scality RING has been deployed by numerous global organizations for its resilience and scalability, supporting both multi-petabyte and exabyte data volumes over the past decade. Additionally, ARTESCA, known for its robust cyber resilience features and financial protection guarantee, remains an integral part of Scality's robust storage offerings.
Central to the ADI platform, the Guardian engine utilizes AI agents to automate infrastructure functions such as expansion and rebalancing. This reduces the administrative load while keeping human decision-makers integral to the process. MCP-enabled flexibility further allows enterprises to integrate custom AI tools, ensuring that ADI can accommodate unique operational requirements without solely relying on Scality's solutions.
Performance Tailored to Needs
The software-defined architecture of Scality ADI efficiently manages various storage formats like NVMe SSD
The software-defined architecture of Scality ADI efficiently manages various storage formats like NVMe SSD, HDD, and cloud options under one namespace. This configuration, directed by lifecycle management policies, ensures optimal performance for different workloads, meeting high GPU performance demands with reduced latency and maximizing cost-efficiency with QLC and HDD formats for less demanding applications.
Scality ADI is designed to tackle present-day data center challenges. The platform's open-code nature ensures transparency and longevity, supported by outcome-based SLAs covering availability and efficiency. It targets large-scale enterprises and government entities, where performance, trust, and data sovereignty coexist with technical demands.
Autonomous Infrastructure for the Future
According to Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality, "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." Manuel Paviotti from Groupama G2S and Simon Robinson from Omdia echoed the sentiment, highlighting the importance of efficient AI infrastructure management aligned with security and control standards.
Scality ADI is currently available through Scality's global distribution network, offering a modern approach to meeting the evolving demands of secure, scalable data management in crucial 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 organizations 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 organizations 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 centers.
Traditional storage architectures, designed for predictable growth and isolated tiers, force painful tradeoffs between performance, resilience, cost, and control. Organizations 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 organizations 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 organizations 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 center 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 center 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 organizations, 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 organizations. 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.
