Funding drives progress in open source software to tackle global societal challenges, focusing on health, sustainability, education, open society, privacy and digital democracy
San Francisco, CA – June 16, 2020 – Scality, leader in software solutions for global data orchestration and distributed file and object storage, today announced an investment in Fondation Inria, the Foundation of the well-known French national research institute for digital sciences, Inria. Bringing both financial backing and collaboration to the institute, Scality will help support multi-disciplinary research and innovation initiatives. This includes mind-body health, precision agriculture, neurodegenerative diagnostics, privacy protection and more.
Scality has been close to Inria for many years and is involved with several collaborative research projects that are developing new concepts for distributed and scalable storage with Inria Distinguished Research Scholar, Marc Shapiro One such project is RainbowFS which investigates an approach to distributed storage that ensures distributed consistency semantics tailored to applications in order to develop smarter and massively scalable systems.
Read more about some of the exciting projects carried out by Inria research teams:
- Fighting fake news: AI software for fact checking in journalism and verifying information. https://www.inria.fr/en/ioana-manolescu-giving-voice-complex-databases
- Stimulating paralyzed muscles and activating the Brain-Computer Interface: Two Inria research teams are helping people with motor disabilities compete against each other using state-of-the-art technical assistance systems at Cybathlon. https://www.inria.fr/en/two-inria-teams-cybathlon
- Eradicating cataract blindness by 2030: InSimo provides an innovative simulation software to educate thousands of surgeons in manual small incision cataract surgery. https://www.insimo.com/projects/helpmesee
Making farming more automated and intelligent through AI: Start-up Dilepix boosts agriculture with AI sensors, diagnostics and automation. https://dilepix.com
About Inria
Inria is the French national research institute for the digital sciences. World-class research and technological innovation are part of our DNA, with the aim of developing and supporting scientific and entrepreneurial projects that create value for France, within a European perspective. www.inria.fr
Press contact: laurence.goussu@inria.fr 0681441733
About Fondation Inria
Fondation Inria aims at tackling scientific challenges to solve major social issues. We co-create with our partners emblematic programs with major social impacts. The purpose of Fondation Inria is to contribute to the development of Inria through fundraising. Our mission is to support initiatives for the common good. www.fondation-inria.fr
Contact : jean-baptiste.hennequin@inria.fr
About Scality
Scality® storage propels companies to unify data management no matter where data lives — from edge to core to cloud. Our market-leading file and object storage software protects data on-premises and in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With RING and ARTESCA, Scality’s approach to managing data across the enterprise accelerates business insight for sound decision-making and maximum return on investment. To compete in a data-driven economy, IT leaders and application developers trust Scality to build sustainable, adaptable solutions. Scality is recognized as a leader by Gartner and IDC. Follow us @scality and LinkedIn. Visit www.scality.com, or subscribe to our company blog.