Company: Scality
Nomination Submitted by: A3 Communications
Company Description: Scality solves organizations’ biggest data storage challenges — growth, security and cost. Delivering 100% uptime, unbreakable ransomware protection and utmost resilience, Scality makes storage infrastructures limitlessly scalable in all critical dimensions: capacity, performance, applications and data location — from core to cloud to edge.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Technology Solutions
Nomination Sub Category: Cloud Storage & Backup Solution
 Nomination Title: Scality's ARTESCA 3.0
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the nominated new or new-version product or service, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
Written answers to the questions
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
launched May 29, 2024
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
Total 350 words used.
ARTESCA is the first object storage software to provide the most comprehensive protection for backup data by leveraging Scality’s CORE5 end-to-end cyber resiliency - which safeguards data at 5 critical levels from API-to-architecture.
94% of IT leaders rely on immutable storage as a foundational aspect of their cybersecurity strategy. Yet immutability alone isn’t enough to stop ransomware attacks, which is where ARTESCA 3.0 comes in.
With ARTESCA 3.0, no other pure-play object storage software offers:
- Unmatched cyber resiliency: ARTESCA maximizes data protection-going beyond immutability with CORE5 capabilities to keep backup data safe and recoverable;
- Faster recovery: When combined with the Veeam data platform ARTESCA provides fast recovery times with no performance degradation as the system scales.
- Easy entry affordable $4K annual subscription fee and flexible deployment models
- Channel friendly!
In addition to CORE5, ARTESCA 3.0 also provides a comprehensive set of security features that includes:
- Design in accordance with US Executive Order 14028 Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and zero-trust architecture principles, including enforced authentication and end-to-end encryption of data.
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for admin users that can now be globally enforced to provide additional login protection for admins and data managers
- Integration with Microsoft Active Directory (AD), configurable directly through the secure ARTESCA administrative UI.
- Center for Internet Security (CIS) compliance testing through OpenSCAP project tools for continual conformance with CIS cybersecurity recommendations, including password strength compliance based on length, complexity and history.
- Extended security-hardening of the integrated OS that disallows root access including remote shell or su as root; admin access is only granted through a system-defined artesca-os user identity adhering to the principle of least privileges.
- A software bill of materials (SBOM) of components and suppliers, scanned and continuously patched for CVEs, to provide customers with visibility into their software supply chain, and automated OS updates to quickly patch vulnerabilities.
- Increased growth to 8.5PB of usable capacity, with support for leading high-density servers from an even wider choice of storage hardware and broadened support for multiple types of flash drives.
- Assured high data durability for high-density flash drives and HDD with enhanced dual-level erasure-coding.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 360 words):
Total 350 words used.
ARTESCA has become Scality’s fastest growing product offering, with Channel Partners taking the lead selling this in a high-velocity sales model. It offers SMBs an affordable entry point - starting at $4K - and has flexible deployment models for fast onboarding that includes software, hardware and virtual appliance options. ARTESCA contributed to Scality’s record breaking 2024 year with a channel-first strategy. 60% of sales were driven by the VAR community which is the top driver of sales for the ARTESCA product line. ARTESCA has been the main factor influencing Scality’s partner growth in 2024 which doubled in size year-over-year.
“We can now take a different approach to storage. Rather than having the traditional challenge of building out our hardware solutions, we can now simply add more storage to the bucket and the customer sees seamless scalability. It’s both fast and efficient. The storage capacity on Scality ARTESCA is half the cost of our previous storage hardware infrastructure for backup services. This is immediate, added revenue for our bottom line. The solution also saves our team between four and eight hours a week in management time, which gives us more availability to deliver the personal services our customers need.” Bryce Farmilo, CEO, vGRID
“To us one of the most important features is how you access ARTESCA. If there is a ransomware attack, the bad actor is not able to see the backend storage because the ARTESCA bucket is only visible in the backup application and not at VM level. This segregation adds a critical layer of security — it’s a very important feature, especially for banking.” Robert Azzopardi, CTO, Smart Technologies
“This latest version of Scality ARTESCA enhances the capabilities of Veeam Data Platform, fortifying immutable backups and strengthening cyber resilience for our joint customers. When enterprises become the victim of cyber attacks, the ability to rapidly recover critical, clean data is paramount to ensure business continuity and minimal downtime. We’re excited to continue our partnership with Scality and extend this enhanced level of cyber resilience to enterprises.” Andreas Neufert, vice president of product management, alliances at Veeam
- You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 350 words):
Total 33 words used.
Piraeus Bank case study
Smart Technologies case study
ARTESCA website: https://www.artesca.scality.com/
ARTESCA press release: https://www.scality.com/press-releases/artesca-cyber-resilience-ransomware/
ARTESCA data sheet: Scality-ARTESCA-hardware-appliance_datasheet_241114.pdf
CORE5: https://www.solved.scality.com/core5-cyber-resilience-solution/
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