WHY INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS MORE THAN MONITORING
Storage at scale outpaces the teams operating it.
Multi-petabyte systems generate more telemetry than humans can read. Maintenance windows shrink. Power costs rise. Security posture has to hold under audit. Headcount does not scale with the system. Operational intelligence does, when it operates inside rules the customer set.
291 ZB
Global data created and replicated by 2027, up from 64 ZB in 2020.
IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2024
~80%
Of enterprise data is unstructured - the workloads that scale most aggressively in capacity and namespace.
IDC / Gartner category estimate
Inside Guardian
Specialized agents, within the rules you set.
Preventive maintenance
The platform reads its own telemetry stream before the workload feels a problem. The data plane generates telemetry at every layer: drives, servers, network, services, application access. A maintenance agent reads the full stream in real time, against the history of the system it has been watching for months, and surfaces what a human would catch only after the SLA dips.
Power efficiency
Power is a hard constraint at modern data center scale. AI and storage push past the budget the rack was provisioned for. Guardian's power agent watches the workload and tunes the platform to consume what's actually being used, not what the platform might use.
Security posture monitoring
A CISO needs to know at any moment whether the platform is configured correctly, whether it is free of known vulnerabilities, and whether the controls in place are actually enforced. The security posture layer reads platform state continuously against the customer-defined baseline and produces evidence the security team can hand to auditors, regulators, or insurers without a scramble.
AI-driven operation
The AI tooling a customer runs across the rest of the environment should also be able to operate the storage. Guardian exposes Scality storage operations through MCP, so customer-side AI can read state, run diagnostics, and recommend or execute approved actions, the same way it operates the rest of the environment.
GUARDIAN ACROSS THE PORTFOLIO
Guardian ships with Scality ADI today. The portfolio comes next.
Guardian is what makes Scality ADI an architecture rather than just a platform. Guardian management of RING and ARTESCA is planned for a future release.
GUARDIAN PRIMARY AFFINITY
Scality ADI ships with four Guardian agents today. Preventive maintenance, power efficiency, security posture monitoring, and MCP-based AI operation are platform capabilities, not add-ons. Every action runs through customer-defined policy.
On the roadmap
RING is the second product on the Guardian roadmap. Preventive maintenance and security posture monitoring are expected first, given RING's installed-base scale.
On the roadmap
The Guardian framework is being extended to ARTESCA on the roadmap. Today ARTESCA participates in audit evidence via CORE5 attestations; Guardian agent coverage follows.


















