Scality is heading into Q2 2025 with solid momentum. The company is coming off five straight record quarters, and adoption is growing steadily across enterprise, service provider, and public sector verticals.
AI-driven use cases and cyber resiliency are key market drivers, and Scality is surfing on this wave: on one side, the new RING XP is designed to cater for AI workloads; on the other, the company is announcing full integration with Veeam Data Platform on ARTESCA.
RING XP – Flash-Powered Object Storage for AI Workloads
The real highlight this quarter is RING XP, a high-performance, NVMe-based evolution of Scality’s flagship RING platform. RING XP addresses a critical bottleneck in the AI data lifecycle: object storage that can’t keep up when workloads scale out. Whether it’s data ingestion, model training, or inference, traditional object stores often fall short once performance becomes the limiting factor. That’s where RING XP steps in.
Architecturally, RING XP builds on Scality RING shared-nothing foundation, but introduces several under-the-hood upgrades aimed at performance: constant-time access, a revamped distributed hash table, and flash-optimized metadata handling. The result is consistent sub-millisecond latency, even in demanding environments.
RING XP supports both the standard S3 API and a purpose-built, lightweight “AI API”, ideal for developers who want to squeeze out every millisecond of latency in real-time AI pipelines.
Scality is positioning RING XP squarely for large-scale AI data lakes and real-time inference workloads. Early adoption seems to be coming mostly from service providers and integrators building AI services on top of storage.
ARTESCA & Veeam – Simple, Secure Storage for the Mid-Market
On the other side of the spectrum is ARTESCA, Scality’s minimalist, container-native object storage platform designed for edge and backup use cases. ARTESCA is built around simplicity and cyber-resilience, targeting mid-sized enterprises that want reliable storage without having to deal with complex operations.
ARTESCA is the first solution to support Veeam Data Platform’s complete feature set. The solution is fully certified and supports critical Veeam features like object immutability and direct-to-object backup. ARTESCA complies with Scality’s Core5 security framework, covering application-level resilience, network & data resilience, storage resilience, geo-replication resilience, and architecture-level resilience.
This is a big deal for Scality because Veeam is hugely popular in EMEA, and this provides a compelling solution to organizations looking for affordable immutable storage. For example, a mid-sized financial firm in Southeastern Europe recently deployed ARTESCA with Veeam for Microsoft 365 backups. They replaced a legacy system and reduced their TCO by 30%, while also gaining better visibility and control over their data.
The Osmium Perspective
RING XP gives the company a credible entry into high-performance AI storage, a space that is evolving fast and requires real technical differentiation. This helps Scality address new use cases and move away from the niche where RING kept the company: high-ingest sequential workloads.
Meanwhile, ARTESCA is building quiet momentum in the mid-market, with its no-frills approach: it delivers practical cyber-resilience in a simple package, especially for Veeam-heavy environments.
From a partnership dynamics perspective, it’s worth noting that although HPE has a historically strong relationship with Scality (investor / partner / reseller), its HPE Alletra Storage MP x10000 competes with RING and raises interesting questions.
As geopolitical considerations increasingly influence IT buying decisions, Scality’s established presence in France and broader EMEA markets strengthens its appeal among organizations seeking trusted and regionally anchored infrastructure partners.
