European data sovereignty has spent years as a compliance checkbox. The combination of GDPR, DORA, NIS2, and an accelerating AI infrastructure buildout is turning it into an architectural requirement. Scality and OVHcloud have moved to meet that shift with a joint storage platform that puts no data dependency on US hyperscalers.
The expanded partnership pairs Scality's object storage software (RING and ARTESCA) with OVHcloud's On-Prem Cloud Platform (OPCP), adding on-premises sovereign cloud and bare-metal options with backup replication across multiple availability zones. The result is S3-compatible storage for organisations in healthcare, finance, defence, and public services that need regulatory compliance with data localisation requirements while still running AI workloads at scale.
The need is structural. GDPR, DORA, NIS2, and HIPAA all impose data localisation constraints that create a direct conflict with the typical hyperscaler model: compute power in exchange for data exposure to foreign jurisdictions. The Scality-OVHcloud stack sidesteps this by running entirely within the customer's infrastructure or on OVHcloud's dedicated bare-metal servers with no shared tenancy.
For AI specifically, the platform is GPU-direct compatible and optimised for high-throughput pipelines. The pitch to machine learning teams is that they can train models and run inference on sensitive datasets — medical records, financial transactions, industrial telemetry — without those datasets crossing a regulatory line.
"OVHcloud and Scality share the same conviction: sovereignty is not a barrier to innovation — it is the prerequisite," said Emilio Roman, Chief Revenue Officer at Scality. "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."
On the infrastructure side, cyber resilience tools including Veeam and Commvault integrate directly with the OVHcloud bare-metal layer. The architecture also supports controlled failover for business continuity in the event of a primary site outage.
"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," said Sylvie Houliere Mayca, Managing Director France Belux & MEA at OVHcloud. "Together, OVHcloud and Scality provide a sovereign infrastructure backed by more than 25 years of OVHcloud expertise and ready for AI."
OVHcloud operates more than 500,000 servers across 46 data centres on four continents, serving 1.6 million customers in over 140 countries. Scality is listed as a Gartner leader for object storage.
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