Scality and OVHcloud have jointly announced the expansion of their technology partnership and the introduction of a new storage platform designed for European digital sovereignty.
This solution enables organizations to maintain full control of sensitive data while avoiding reliance on U.S. hyperscalers, meeting the performance and resilience demands of advanced AI workloads. Deployment options include a dedicated sovereign cloud and on-premises solutions through the OVHcloud On-Prem Cloud Platform (OPCP), with backup across multiple availability zones.
Regulatory Compliance and Data Control
The expanded partnership responds to two critical business requirements: ensuring data control in a strict regulatory landscape and providing private infrastructure for AI's demanding workloads.
While digital transformation seeks cloud agility, it cannot compromise sensitive data's exposure to foreign jurisdictions. This is especially pertinent in fields like healthcare, finance, defense, and public services, where regulations such as European GDPR, DORA, NIS2, and U.S. HIPAA demand data localization and regulation adherence.
Addressing Public Cloud Challenges
The alliance between Scality and OVHcloud OPCP tackles this issue head-on
The alliance between Scality and OVHcloud OPCP tackles this issue head-on. The Scality RING and Scality ARTESCA offer considerable, resilient, S3-compatible object storage directly on customer premises. The OPCP enhances this with cloud-native orchestration, a managed services catalog, and automated deployment, all independent of foreign public cloud providers.
Furthermore, the dedicated storage on OVHcloud's Bare Metal infrastructure under the HGR-STOR range allows for isolated, private S3-compatible off-site backups, integrating cyber-resilience tools like Veeam and Commvault.
Enhancing AI Capabilities with Sovereign Infrastructure
The collaboration ensures a modern sovereign cloud experience for users, enabling predictable costs and avoiding U.S. hyperscaler legalities. AI requires large data volumes and computational capacity, demanding low latency and confidentiality. By integrating Scality’s GPU-direct compatible, high-performance object storage with OPCP, organizations can conduct real-time model training, MLOps pipeline execution, and AI app deployment within their environments, maintaining data security and compliance.
“OVHcloud and Scality share the same conviction: sovereignty is not a barrier to innovation - it is the prerequisite. By combining our high-performance object storage with the OPCP platform, we empower companies to scale their AI projects without ever sacrificing control over their data.” - Emilio Roman, Chief Revenue Officer, Scality.
“The OVHcloud OPCP platform was designed so that software vendors and their customers can benefit from the power of the cloud wherever they need it: on their own premises. Scality is the natural and recognized partner for high-performance storage solutions for the most critical data. Together, OVHcloud and Scality provide a sovereign infrastructure backed by more than 25 years of OVHcloud expertise and ready for AI.” - Sylvie Houliere Mayca, Managing Director France Belux & MEA, OVHcloud.
Scality, a pioneer in data infrastructure software for the AI era, and OVHcloud, a global cloud provider and European cloud pioneer, announces an expanded technology partnership and a new joint storage platform built for European digital sovereignty. The solution gives organizations full control over sensitive data, with no dependency on U.S. hyperscalers, while delivering the performance and resilience required for the most demanding AI workloads.
Deployment options include a 100% dedicated sovereign cloud and on-premises via the OVHcloud OPCP (On-Prem Cloud Platform), with backup replication across multiple availability zones (multi-AZ).
Demanding regulatory environment
The expanded partnership addresses two urgent business needs: maintaining control over sensitive data in an increasingly demanding regulatory environment and providing private infrastructure capable of supporting the most intensive artificial intelligence workloads.
Today, digital transformation faces a contradiction: organizations want the agility of the cloud but cannot afford to expose critical data to foreign jurisdictions. This challenge is particularly acute in healthcare, finance, defense, and public services, where strict regulations such as European GDPR, DORA, NIS2, and HIPAA for the U.S. require data localisation and complete control over information assets.
Public cloud providers
The combination of Scality and OVHcloud OPCP solutions directly addresses this challenge. Scality RING and Scality ARTESCA provide massive, resilient, S3-compatible object storage deployed directly on the customer’s on-premises infrastructure. OPCP adds cloud-native orchestration, a managed services catalog, and deployment automation, all built on a foundation independent of foreign public cloud providers.
Beyond the on-premises layer, this alliance also extends to a dedicated storage offering on OVHcloud Bare Metal infrastructure through the HGR-STOR range. This setup enables organizations to easily deploy off-site backups with private S3 compatibility, integrated with leading cyber-resilience tools such as Veeam and Commvault, all hosted directly by OVHcloud. A key advantage is the guarantee of 100% dedicated servers, with no resource sharing with other customers, providing predictable performance and maximum isolation. It also supports a robust business continuity plan (BCP) by enabling controlled failover to OVHcloud infrastructure in the event of a disaster or primary site outage.
High-performance object storage
For end users, the result is a modern, seamless, sovereign cloud experience with predictable costs and without the legal risks associated with U.S. hyperscalers.
Artificial intelligence requires vast amounts of data and computing power, but it is equally demanding in terms of latency and confidentiality. Training models or performing inference on mission-critical data, like medical records, financial transactions, and industrial telemetry, requires processing where it resides.
The joint Scality-OVHcloud OPCP platform addresses this need end-to-end. Scality’s high-performance object storage, which is GPU-direct compatible and optimized for AI data pipelines, integrates natively with OPCP’s managed on-premises infrastructure. Organizations can train models, run MLOps pipelines, and deploy AI applications in near real time directly within their own environments, without compromising data security or regulatory compliance.
most critical data
“OVHcloud and Scality share the same conviction: sovereignty is not a barrier to innovation - it is the prerequisite. By combining our high-performance object storage with the OPCP platform, we empower companies to scale their AI projects without ever sacrificing control over their data.” - Emilio Roman, Chief Revenue Officer, Scality.
“The OVHcloud OPCP platform was designed so that software vendors and their customers can benefit from the power of the cloud wherever they need it: on their own premises. Scality is the natural and recognized partner for high-performance storage solutions for the most critical data. Together, OVHcloud and Scality provide a sovereign infrastructure backed by more than 25 years of OVHcloud expertise and ready for AI.” - Sylvie Houliere Mayca, Managing Director France Belux & MEA, OVHcloud.
