en.Wedoany.com Reported - Data infrastructure software developer Scality has partnered with European cloud service provider OVHcloud to launch a storage platform that supports European digital sovereignty. The new platform enables organizations to manage sensitive data in storage infrastructure independent of US hyperscale cloud providers, while meeting the performance and resilience requirements of artificial intelligence workloads.
The platform offers multiple deployment options, including a dedicated sovereign cloud focused on individual customer needs, as well as on-premises deployment via the OVHcloud Local Cloud Platform (OPCP). It also supports backup replication across multiple availability zones to enhance data resilience.
The collaboration aims to address business needs related to data protection, regulatory compliance, and AI workload infrastructure. Organizations operating under increasingly stringent regulations may require private infrastructure capable of supporting compute-intensive AI applications.
Many organizations seek cloud flexibility while retaining control over where sensitive data is stored and processed. This is particularly prominent in sectors such as healthcare, finance, defense, and public services, which must comply with regulations like GDPR, DORA, NIS2, and HIPAA. The joint Scality-OVHcloud OPCP offering includes Scality RING and ARTESCA object storage, providing S3-compatible object storage services on customer on-premises infrastructure. The OPCP platform adds cloud-native orchestration, managed service catalogs, and deployment automation, operating independently of foreign hyperscaler public cloud environments.
For organizations requiring off-site backups, the partnership also offers storage services on OVHcloud bare metal infrastructure through the HGR-STOR series. The platform is S3-compatible and integrates with cyber resilience tools such as Veeam and Commvault. The companies state that using dedicated servers with no shared resources aims to provide consistent performance and workload isolation.
AI workloads often require large amounts of data and computing resources, while latency, confidentiality, and regulatory requirements may influence data processing locations. Training and inference using sensitive datasets, such as medical records, financial transactions, or industrial telemetry, may benefit from processing near the data storage location. The Scality-OVHcloud OPCP platform is designed to support these needs by combining Scality object storage with OPCP-managed on-premises infrastructure. The object storage is GPU Direct-compatible and optimized for AI data pipelines, enabling organizations to train AI models, manage MLOps pipelines, and deploy AI applications within their own environments while maintaining data control and supporting regulatory compliance.
