Running backup-as-a-service at any significant scale means juggling dozens of separate object storage deployments, each with its own login, its own update cycle, and its own monthly reporting to do by hand. Scality is releasing a fleet management layer to solve that problem.
Scality has announced general availability of Scality Maestro, a fleet management platform purpose-built for managed service providers and cloud service providers operating multiple Scality ARTESCA object storage deployments across customer sites.
The platform addresses an operational constraint that has become a hard ceiling for MSPs trying to grow backup-as-a-service offerings: once a provider has more than a handful of customer deployments, the per-site management model stops scaling. Health monitoring, software updates, capacity reporting, and billing reconciliation each require separate logins and manual effort per site. Beyond around ten deployments, the operational cost grows faster than revenue.
Maestro resolves this through a centralised management layer that connects to all ARTESCA deployments without requiring VPN tunnels. All traffic flows from ARTESCA instances to Maestro, not the other way round, which means service providers can onboard new customer sites without any network reconfiguration on the customer’s side.
“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,” said Dominic McLouglin, CEO of Autodata. “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.”
Thomas Danan, Senior Product Director at Scality, said the no-VPN architecture was a hard requirement from the service provider partners who co-developed the platform: “Maestro was built with our SCSP partners to solve the real operational problems they face every day with centralised 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.”
Maestro 1.1 is generally available and supports all ARTESCA deployments running version 4.0.3 or later. An on-premises deployment model is available now; a SaaS delivery option is planned for a future release.
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