USE CASE - SOVEREIGN CLOUD
Sovereign Cloud Platforms
Cloud service providers, sovereign cloud operators, telco cloud teams, and national cloud platforms run multi-tenant S3 under a regulator and a board. Scality RING is the object storage platform built for that operating envelope. Geographic control, operator independence, and predictable economics at exabyte scale.
THE PRESSURES
Pressures the sovereign cloud operator is planning against.
JURISDICTION
The regulator defines the platform.
SecNumCloud, EUCS, sector mandates in finance and healthcare, national sovereignty frameworks. The operator doesn't pick the rules. The platform has to enforce residency, operator independence, and inspectability as properties of the architecture.
ECONOMICS
Predictable cost over a decade.
Cost per usable terabyte, egress economics, power and cooling envelopes. The operator business case depends on cost curves staying flat as the platform grows past the petabyte mark and into the exabyte range.
TENANCY
Multi-tenant by design, not by deployment.
Many customers, many workloads, many regions, one platform. Isolation, quotas, and tenant-level governance have to live in the architecture, not in a management overlay the operator has to maintain.
INDEPENDENCE
Operator independence is the product.
The whole point of a sovereign cloud is the absence of foreign legal reach, opaque update paths, and lock-in to a hyperscaler's roadmap. The storage layer has to be inspectable software the operator controls, not a black box.
THE SCALITY ANSWER
An architectural response to each pressure
Geographic control.
Residency is enforced at the data layer, not the contract. Multi-region replication, geo-distributed failure domains, and site-level policy controls are properties of the platform.
Multi-tenant by design.
Tenant isolation, quotas, and per-tenant governance live in the architecture. Many customers on one platform, with the boundaries enforced where they have to be.
Operator independence.
Open standards, inspectable software, and a long support horizon. No foreign legal reach into the platform, no black-box firmware, no forced refresh cycle.
Predictable economics at scale.
Cost per usable terabyte, hardware-flexible deployment, and an upgrade path that doesn't rip and replace. The cost curve stays flat as the platform grows.
SOVEREIGN OPERATOR TOPOLOGY
A sovereign cloud platform, in one picture.
Tenants accessing concurrently inside one jurisdiction. A unified s3 namespace under operator policy. A multi-region cluster, geo-distributed and self-healing. RING is the storage that carries all three.
SCALITY RING
the scality advantage
Scality technologies that show up most under sovereign cloud workloads.
CORE5
Five layers, working as one.
API. Data. Storage. Geographic. Architecture. Cyber resilience built across five independent layers so a stolen credential, a privilege escalation, or a physical breach is never enough to lose data.
MultiScale
Multi-site at scale, under one policy.
Capacity, throughput, and operations scale independently. Multi-site replication and geo-distributed failure domains are properties of the architecture, not bolt-ons.
VALIDATED SOVEREIGN CLOUD ECOSYSTEM
Integrated with the stack sovereign cloud operators already run.
RING sits underneath the major server platforms, the validated tenant-facing software stack, and the analytics, backup, and content services the operator's customers consume. The operator's stack stays the operator's stack.
FEATURED PARTNERSHIP
SFR runs broad cloud services for tens of millions of customers on a shared RING. Orange Business operates RING at the scale of a national telco. Dailymotion serves global video content from RING-backed infrastructure.
Bring the jurisdiction. We'll show you the storage.
