For 17 years, Scality has sold a stubborn idea: the valuable part of storage should be software, while the hardware underneath stays replaceable. Ransomware, sovereignty rules and GPU-hungry AI have made that once-technical argument a boardroom concern.
Cloudian turned the wreckage of a mobile-messaging company into an enterprise storage business. Its newest wager is that the AI race will be won as much in the data room as in the GPU rack.