Scality delivers Maestro to meet growing operational demand for backup-as-a-service. As cloud and managed service providers race to deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS) at scale, a critical operational challenge has emerged: managing tens to hundreds of individual object storage deployments spread across customer sites, each requiring monitoring, maintenance, and billing reconciliation. Scality announced general availability of Scality Maestro, a fleet management platform purpose-built for service providers operating large numbers of Scality ARTESCA object storage deployments on behalf of their customers. Managing distributed object storage infrastructure at scale is fundamentally different from managing a single deployment. Service providers need a single pane of glass to monitor health, push firmware and software updates, track capacity utilization across all customer sites, and do so without requiring VPN tunnels into every customer environment. As BaaS offerings grow from dozens to hundreds of sites, this operational gap becomes a hard constraint on scalability. Co-developed with cloud and service provider partners (SCSP), Scality Maestro is now in production use across customer deployments and provides service providers with: * Centralized health monitoring and alerting across the entire Scality ARTESCA fleet * End-to-end management down to the hardware layer, including ARTESCA software upgrades and server firmware updates * Aggregated capacity utilization data across all customer deployments, enabling automated pay-as-you-go billing * Out-of-band connectivity architecture that eliminates VPN requirements, as all traffic flows from ARTESCA to Maestro, never the reverse * Support for enterprises managing ARTESCA across branch offices or distributed edge locations "We manage multiple Scality ARTESCA deployments across our key customer sites in the UK and Ireland as part of our backup-as-a-service offering, and until Maestro, every one of them was independently managed - separate logins, VPN tunnels, manual update cycles, and monthly capacity reports assembled by hand. Instead, Maestro gives us a single view of the entire fleet. Software updates that consume hours of staff time can now be monitored centrally, and we can grow the fleet without adding operational headcount. We can already foresee a significant difference in running our service." - Dominic McLouglin, CEO, Autodata While Maestro was designed primarily for the SCSP and MSP market, the platform is equally well suited to enterprise organizations running ARTESCA across multiple locations, whether at the edge, in branch offices, or as part of a distributed data protection architecture. Once deployments expand beyond a handful of sites, organizations reach an operational inflection point: tools that work well for a single site cannot efficiently manage tens or hundreds. Maestro provides the centralized management needed to operate at that scale. "Service providers building BaaS businesses on Scality ARTESCA are managing infrastructure at a scale that demands enterprise-grade operational tooling. Maestro was built with our SCSP partners to solve the real operational problems they face every day with centralized visibility, automated management, and the billing infrastructure to run a sustainable managed service. The fact that it requires no VPN and no network reconfiguration on the customer side was a hard requirement from day one." - Thomas Danan, Sr. Product Director, Scality Availability Scality Maestro 1.1 is generally available and supports all Scality ARTESCA deployments running version 4.0.3 or later. It is currently available as an on-premises deployment, with a SaaS delivery model planned for future release.v David Marshall is the founder of VMblog.com, one of the industry's longest-running independent publications covering modern data center technologies. What began as a focus on virtualization and cloud computing has expanded to cover the full spectrum of enterprise IT, including AI, security, and DevOps, making VMblog a trusted destination for vendor news, technology analysis, and industry commentary.Beyond publishing, David has spent his career at the intersection of technology and business, inventing, marketing, and launching a number of successful software companies and products, and building a reputation as a skilled marketing executive in the enterprise IT space.David is also a published author, having written two well-regarded books on virtualization and served as technical editor for two "For Dummies" titles covering virtualization and cloud computing. He co-founded CloudCow.com, a publication focused on cloud computing, and has been named a VMware vExpert every year since 2009, one of the longest continuous honoree streaks in the program's history.Connect with David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarshall/

August 14, 2026 Pyramid computer and Scality launch strategic partnership for AI and object storage solutions. Scality and Pyramid Computer GmbH is combining its expertise to create high-performance, reliable, and scalable data infrastructures! The partnership focuses on integrated solutions for data-intensive applications - from AI and machine learning pipelines to large-scale media workflows and enterprise-wide data management. This collaboration combines its high-density AKHET(R) server and edge computing platforms with Scality's RING and ARTESCA object storage software. This provides enterprises with a validated stack that reliably stores and manages large volumes of data and makes it available for modern AI workloads. A key benefit lies in strengthening data sovereignty. By combining its hardware infrastructure - developed in Germany - with Scality's software-defined object storage technology, Pyramid Computer GmbH create a local private cloud stack for companies that want to manage their data in a controlled, secure, and compliant manner. The solution helps customers better manage data storage locations and access paths, comply with regulatory requirements such as the GDPR, and reduce their reliance on non-European hyperscalers. This makes it a key component of long-term, resilient data strategies. These joint solutions are designed specifically for industries with very high data requirements, including broadcast and media, medical imaging, autonomous systems, and large-scale AI training environments. By combining Pyramid computing platforms with Scality's S3-compatible object storage, integration risks can be reduced and production environments can be deployed more quickly. Pyramid Computer GmbH'd like to thank Scality for the great collaboration and look forward to its future projects!

Scality and WEKA expand partnership ahead of RAISE Summit. Scality and WEKA have expanded their partnership in France with a new joint customer support agreement. As part of the deal, Scality will offer the companies' combined solution to customers in the French market, providing local enterprises with a single in-country contact for both sales and first-line support. The announcement comes ahead of RAISE Summit 2026, Europe's leading AI event, scheduled for July 8-9 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, where both companies will be exhibiting. A single, in-country support experience for French customers. Scality and WEKA's combined technologies deliver a complementary solution for AI workloads. WEKA's NeuralMesh software provides accelerated storage and context memory performance at scale, keeping GPUs fully utilized for AI model training and inference. Scality ADI (Autonomous Data Infrastructure) is a data infrastructure platform that delivers autonomous operations, cyber resilience, and sovereign control across the full data lifecycle, from active workloads to durable, long-term retention at exabyte scale. The new agreement makes the combined solution easier for French customers to adopt and operate, with front-line technical support delivered locally by Scality. Data Management Deepening joint go-to-market in France. The support agreement builds on the jointly validated solution the two companies announced on February 24, 2026, which pairs WEKA's NeuralMesh high-performance AI storage and context memory platform with a cost-efficient Scality RING object tier. The integration uses Scality's lightweight object connector for NeuralMesh, delivering up to 10x faster performance and up to 20% lower infrastructure costs in Scality testing. It also reflects a broader expansion of joint go-to-market activities in France, where Scality and WEKA are engaging a growing set of shared prospects. By aligning their complementary technologies and now their local support and sales motions, the partners aim to give French enterprises, government organizations, and AI builders a clear, low-risk path to high-performance, cost-efficient, cyber-resilient AI infrastructure. Meeting customers at RAISE Summit Paris. Both companies are exhibiting at RAISE Summit 2026. Visit Scality at booth #3D and WEKA at booth #2D to learn more about the joint solution and meet the experts behind it. The companies will co-host an invitation-only Lumiere Candlelight(R) concert and dinner at the Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel on Wednesday, July 8, bringing together Europe's top AI builders, founders, and partners beyond the conference floor. "The race for AI is no longer limited by GPUs. It's increasingly limited by data infrastructure. Our partnership with WEKA brings those strengths together, and extending it with local, French-language support means our joint customers in France get the combined solution backed by a single, in-country point of contact. This is exactly the kind of practical, customer-first collaboration that earns trust in mission-critical environments." Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence - Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality "AI doesn't stall because enterprises run out of models. It stalls because infrastructure can't keep pace with the demand they create. NeuralMesh solves the performance layer: it maximizes GPU utilization, scales inference throughput, and drives down cost per token. Scality covers the full data lifecycle with the cyber resilience and sovereign controls that regulated European industries require. Local French-language support from Scality removes the final barrier to adoption. For French enterprises deploying at scale, that is a meaningfully shorter, lower-risk path to production." - Nilesh Patel, Chief Strategy Officer of WEKA