Paul Speciale's presentation at Cloud Field Day 23 highlighted Scality's approach to helping customers build exabyte-scale clouds. The presentation opened by addressing the shift towards private cloud computing driven by AI workloads and data sovereignty concerns. Scality RING, already managing a significant amount of data, is chosen by market leaders, including major telcos and banks, to maintain control and achieve cloud-scale performance. The presentation's core message establishes the business imperative that is driving enterprises away from public cloud dependencies and towards hybrid architectures for both compliance and competitive advantages.
Scality's presentation focuses on its RING product as the primary solution for cloud infrastructure, data lakes, and data protection. It emphasized the RING's S3-compatibility, deep support for advanced APIs, and a cloud-like identity and access management system. Furthermore, the presentation highlighted the RING's distributed data protection, geo-stretched capabilities for high availability, utilization tracking, and the Core 5 initiative that focuses on cyber resiliency. The presentation emphasized the importance of multiscale architecture in a cloud environment due to the varying workload patterns and I/O needs.
The presentation showcased Scality's market entry in 2010, coinciding with the rise of cloud services. Scality aimed to provide scale-out storage solutions with their Ring product, which has been in the market since 2010 and has been adopted by major telcos and financial institutions. Scality's presentation also includes customer stories involving U.S. and European banks, the space industry, and Iron Mountain, highlighting the versatility of Ring for various applications and deployment sizes. Scality’s response to questions highlighted backup and automated tiering capabilities within the RING system, underscoring its design for high-capacity use cases.

Presented by Paul Speciale — Chief Marketing Officer, Scality. Recorded live in Millbrae, California, on June 4, 2025, as part of Cloud Field Day 23. Watch the entire presentation at https://techfieldday.com/appearance/scality-presents-at-cloud-field-day-23/ or https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd23/ for more information.