The enterprise storage market has been under pressure from two directions simultaneously: AI workloads that make demands traditional storage was never designed to meet, and regulatory environments requiring demonstrable data sovereignty and cyber resilience. Scality ADI is positioned as a response to both.
At the core is Guardian, an autonomous operations engine that uses AI agents to handle expansion, healing, rebalancing, upgrades, and lifecycle management. Every recommendation Guardian makes still requires human approval before it executes — a design choice that aligns with the governance expectations emerging from DORA and the EU AI Act, and one Scality is marketing explicitly as different from systems that act first and report later.
We are not replacing what works. We are building what comes next.
The storage architecture spans NVMe SSD, HDD, tape, and cloud tiers within a single namespace, with policy-driven lifecycle management that aligns media type and economics to each workload. At the performance end, a new RDMA-accelerated KV cache connector supports the high-throughput, ultra-low-latency requirements of GPU clusters. At the cold end, tape or cloud ice storage brings near-zero power consumption for long-term archives.
"The AI era hasn't just changed how enterprises use data, it has exposed how badly the old storage model was broken," said Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality. "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."
Scality ADI builds on two existing products — RING, deployed at multi-petabyte to exabyte scale for over a decade, and ARTESCA, the company's backup-first object storage solution with a $100,000 cyber guarantee — which continue as distinct products in the portfolio. ADI extends both with CORE5 cyber resilience at every layer, providing immutable, recoverable, and auditable data protection.
For regulated and sovereign environments, ADI is delivered as open-code software, with source available for inspection and governed contributions. Outcome-based SLAs cover availability, performance, protection posture, power consumption, and operational efficiency. Simon Robinson, principal analyst at Omdia, noted the approach: the platform "takes a more credible approach, with operational intelligence through policy-governed execution, where agents surface recommendations and actions occur within auditable bounds."
Scality ADI is available now through its global channel and strategic alliance partner network.
