Scality maintains offices in Paris (France), London (UK), San Francisco and Washington DC (USA), and Tokyo (Japan) and has employees in 14 countries.

Scality was founded in 2009 by Jérôme Lecat, Giorgio Regni, Daniel Binsfeld, Serge Dugas, and Brad King.

[16] The object storage software platform is a multitiered architecture and can scale up to thousands of servers and up to 100 petabytes under a single namespace.

[17] Ring product depends on a keyspace calculated using a Monte Carlo simulation at install, spread across all of its node servers.

While the company aims for the Ring to function without the need of any external management process, a Supervisor server is functionally required to kick-off data integrity operations and keep track of node state, while also providing a single source of truth for data about the ring itself.

[31][32] In Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage Scality was ranked a leader.

[34][35] In 2017, Scality was again ranked a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.