Scality in India: backups ransomware cannot touch.
The storage desk at Sirius Star sizes Scality RING and ARTESCA to your real data, on hardware you already buy. You get a sized quote in 8 working hours, racked in your own datacentre, not a foreign cloud.
· India’s IT & business services market reached USD 254 billion in FY24 and is projected to cross USD 350 billion by 2026, per India Brand Equity Foundation.
· Under the DPDP Act 2023, Indian businesses must keep personal data in India unless cross-border transfer is to a notified country — Sirius Star configures every deployment for DPDP compliance by default.
· Sirius Star is a Microsoft Partner with a cloud engineer on payroll, founded 2009 in Navi Mumbai, serving 200+ Indian enterprises across Cloud, Secure Data Guard, Device Lifecycle Management, Hardware, and Corporate Tech Gifting.
The storage desk at Sirius Star sizes Scality RING and ARTESCA to your real data, on hardware you already buy. You get a sized quote in 8 working hours, racked in your own datacentre, not a foreign cloud.
Capacity Scality RING runs in production today
6 exabytes
Scality RING manages six exabytes of customer data in production, which is six thousand petabytes, per Scality. The same software starts at a few servers and grows to that scale.
What is Scality, and who is it for?
Scality builds storage in software, not in a locked appliance. The company started in 2009 and now runs on standard x86 servers from the vendors you already trust. You pick the hardware. Scality turns it into one large, durable store.
There are two products. RING is the scale-out platform for file and object data at petabyte and exabyte size. It speaks S3, NFS, SMB and OpenStack Swift, so applications connect through protocols they already use. ARTESCA is the smaller, S3-native store built for one job above all, immutable backups that survive a ransomware attack.
If your backup lives on disk that ransomware can reach, you do not really have a recovery plan. Scality fixes that with object lock. Sirius Star sizes the right product and supports it from Navi Mumbai.
What does it cost in 2026?
Scality RING, scale-out file and object
RING is the workhorse. It pools standard servers into a single namespace that holds billions of objects and grows to exabytes. Erasure coding spreads each file across nodes, so a drive or a whole server can fail and your data stays intact. Use it as a backup target, data lake, media archive or private S3 cloud. Licensing is by usable capacity, so a firm price needs your real data size.
Scality ARTESCA, immutable S3 for backups
ARTESCA is the lightweight store built for Veeam and other backup tools. It is a Veeam Ready Object with Immutability, so backups land already locked. It starts on a single small server and scales out as your backup estate grows. This is the differentiator most Indian buyers come for.
S3 Object Lock and CORE5 resilience
Object Lock in compliance mode means a backup written today cannot be changed or deleted until its retention ends. No user, no admin, no attacker. Scality calls its end-to-end protection CORE5, covering everything from the S3 API down to the disk layout.
Software-defined on your own hardware
Scality runs on Dell, HPE or Supermicro servers. HPE is a long-standing Scality partner, so the RING-on-HPE path is well worn. You avoid a proprietary array tax and refresh the hardware on your own cycle, not the vendor’s.
Protocols and real use cases
RING serves S3, NFS, SMB and Swift at the same time. That suits backup targets, large media libraries, research data lakes and long-term archives. One platform covers jobs that used to need three separate boxes.
Sized, deployed and supported by Sirius
We size the product to your data, supply the servers, install and tune the cluster, and stay on call after. One desk in Navi Mumbai owns the licence, the hardware and the support, so you are not chasing an overseas vendor.
Ransomware now goes after the backups first, because deleting your recovery copy is how attackers force the ransom. When that backup holds personal data, ₹250 crore is the DPDP Act penalty ceiling per breach, per the Ministry of Electronics and IT, and the reporting clock follows CERT-In rules. For banks and NBFCs, the RBI expects a clean restore path.
We have seen a recovery stall because the only backup an admin could reach was the one the attacker had already encrypted. An immutable copy is the one they cannot. The review that checks for this gap is free.
How a storage order actually runs
Free 24-hour workload review
Tell us what you protect and how much it grows each year. We look at your backup tool, your data size and your retention rules. The review is free and takes a day.
Sized quote in 8 hours
You get the product choice, the server bill of materials, the usable capacity and the landed price within 8 working hours of the review. No vague ranges.
Deploy, tune and migrate
We rack the servers, install the cluster, point Veeam at the new target and check immutability is on. Older backups move across without a protection gap.
Support that answers
After go-live you reach a local team on an 8-hour response SLA. The licence, the hardware and the support all sit with one desk in Navi Mumbai.
Who should put this storage in the rack?
Banks, NBFCs and insurers that need a restore the regulator trusts get the clearest value from ARTESCA immutability. A locked backup answers the ransomware question in one line.
Media houses, broadcasters and research groups that sit on huge file libraries use RING as a single growing pool, instead of buying another array every year. Hospitals and government bodies use it for archives that must stay in the country. If you already run Veeam, ARTESCA is often the cleanest immutable target you can add.
RING vs ARTESCA vs MinIO, the honest call
These three get compared often, and they solve different problems. Here is the plain version, with no spin.
| If you need | Best fit | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Petabyte file and object on your own servers | Scality RING | One namespace, many protocols, proven at exabyte scale. |
| An immutable Veeam backup target, fast | Scality ARTESCA | Veeam Ready, object lock on by default, small footprint to start. |
| A lightweight S3 store for developers | MinIO | Open and simple for cloud-native apps, but you own the operations. |
Route a developer sandbox to MinIO. Route a regulator-grade restore to ARTESCA. Route a single multi-petabyte pool to RING. We will recommend the honest fit for your data, even when it is the cheaper one.
Storage questions Indian buyers ask
Is Scality available in India, and who supplies it?
Yes. Sirius Star supplies and supports Scality across India, from Navi Mumbai. We size the product, provide the servers, deploy the cluster and stay on call, so you have one local desk rather than an overseas chain.
What is the difference between Scality RING and ARTESCA?
RING is the large scale-out platform for file and object data at petabyte and exabyte size. ARTESCA is the lighter S3 store built for immutable backups. Many buyers start with ARTESCA for Veeam and add RING later.
Does Scality protect backups from ransomware?
Yes. ARTESCA is a Veeam Ready Object with Immutability and uses S3 Object Lock. A backup written in compliance mode cannot be deleted or encrypted until its retention ends, so a clean copy survives an attack.
Does Scality data stay in India?
Yes. Scality runs on servers in your own datacentre, with no foreign cloud dependency. That keeps residency simple under DPDP and RBI rules, and the data never leaves your site.
What hardware does Scality run on?
Standard x86 servers from Dell, HPE or Supermicro. HPE is a long-standing Scality partner. We size the servers with the licence so the cluster is balanced for your workload.
One desk. Sized, deployed, tuned, supported.
Send your backup tool, your data size and your retention rules. Inside 8 working hours you get the product choice, the server bill of materials, the usable capacity and the landed price. The review is free, and 200+ businesses already trust Sirius Star.
200+ businesses · Response within 8 hours · 17+ years in IT · Navi Mumbai
P.S. A finance firm near Pune thought it was covered, until a test restore showed its only backup sat on the same volume ransomware would reach. One small ARTESCA target, with object lock on, gave it a copy nothing could touch. The review that found the gap cost nothing.
Who is Scality in India a good fit for in India?
Scality in India works best for Indian businesses that already have established workflows around the related platforms, need DPDP-compliant data residency, and want a single accountable partner for deployment plus quarterly tuning. Sirius Star runs the entire lifecycle — scoping, deployment, training, and renewal — from a Navi Mumbai engineering team.
How long does Scality in India deployment take?
A typical Scality in India rollout in India takes 2-6 weeks from purchase order to production cutover, depending on scope. Sirius Star follows a phased plan: scoping call within 8 working hours of enquiry, design review within 5 days, deployment waves, then a 30-day stabilisation window before handing over to your team or our managed retainer.