Scality & WEKA expand France AI support partnership

Scality and WEKA have expanded their partnership in France, giving customers a single local contact for sales and first-line support.

Under the agreement, Scality will distribute the companies' joint offering in France and provide French-language front-line technical support. It extends an existing collaboration between the two data infrastructure suppliers as they target organisations building and running artificial intelligence workloads.

The combined offering brings together WEKA's NeuralMesh software with Scality's storage platforms. It is aimed at enterprises, public sector bodies and other organisations that need data systems for model training, inference and long-term data retention.

Local support

The new support model centres on in-country service delivery. For French customers, that means a local point of contact instead of dealing separately with both vendors for initial sales discussions and tier-one support issues.

The France expansion builds on a jointly validated solution announced earlier this year. That setup paired NeuralMesh with a Scality RING object storage tier, using Scality's object connector for NeuralMesh.

In testing carried out by Scality, the companies said the integration delivered up to 10 times faster performance and reduced infrastructure costs by as much as 20%. They are using those figures to argue that the arrangement can ease AI infrastructure adoption at scale while reducing the burden of moving data across storage layers.

WEKA's software is designed to manage data access and memory-intensive AI workloads. Scality's systems focus on storing and protecting data across its lifecycle, from active use to long-term retention, including for customers with sovereignty and cyber-resilience requirements.

French focus

The partnership signals a more targeted push into the French market. Scality, which has French roots, is taking on a more direct role in customer engagement as the two companies seek to turn technical integration into local commercial activity.

The target customer base includes regulated industries and government organisations, where language support, local presence and data control can weigh heavily in procurement decisions. By offering a single domestic contact, the partners appear to be trying to reduce friction for buyers that want AI infrastructure without having to stitch together support across several suppliers.

The move also reflects a broader shift in the AI infrastructure market. As demand for graphics processing units has surged, software and storage providers have increasingly argued that the bottlenecks now lie in feeding data to models quickly enough and managing it securely once workloads move into production.

Scality Chief Executive Officer Jérôme Lecat said the support agreement addresses that operational challenge for customers in France. "The race for AI is no longer limited by GPUs. It's increasingly limited by data infrastructure. Our partnership with WEKA brings those strengths together, and extending it with local, French-language support means our joint customers in France get the combined solution backed by a single, in-country point of contact. This is exactly the kind of practical, customer-first collaboration that earns trust in mission-critical environments," Lecat said.

For WEKA, the partnership offers a route to customers that need local service around high-throughput AI data environments. The company has been positioning NeuralMesh as a platform that links storage performance with memory extension for training and inference tasks.

WEKA Chief Strategy Officer Nilesh Patel said the limiting factor for AI projects often sits below the model layer. "AI doesn't stall because enterprises run out of models. It stalls because infrastructure can't keep pace with the demand they create. NeuralMesh solves the performance layer: it maximises GPU utilisation, scales inference throughput, and drives down cost per token. Scality covers the full data lifecycle with the cyber resilience and sovereign controls that regulated European industries require. Local French-language support from Scality removes the final barrier to adoption. For French enterprises deploying at scale, that is a meaningfully shorter, lower-risk path to production," Patel said.

The deal adds a service layer to an alliance previously framed around technical integration and joint selling. In France, Scality will now act as the front line for customers adopting the combined stack, while both companies continue to pursue shared prospects in a market where demand for AI infrastructure is rising alongside scrutiny of resilience, cost and control.