Scality CEO On ESG And Storage As A Solved Problem
SearchStorage, Monday, September 18,2023
Scality's CEO discusses the company's ESG efforts, ESG in IT, object storage's role in primary storage and AI while seeing the problems of storage have mostly been solved.
Scality co-founder and CEO Jerome Lecat wants to instill a culture at his company that is cognizant of every stakeholder, including the planet.
As part of his focus on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG), Lecat is pushing beyond measuring his company's carbon footprint by taking proactive measures to hire more female engineers as well as documenting the company's procurement processes and the sustainability practices of procurement partners. These efforts were recently recognized with a silver medal by global ESG assessor EcoVadis, putting Scality in the top 25% of all companies it assessed this year.