EDF and Scality

Scality RING represents modernization for EDF. This, their first foray into software-defined storage, won the team an innovation award.

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CUSTOMERS / GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES

Électricité de France

Scality ensures data availability for the world’s largest electric utility

EDF can now confidently grow its storage capacity without limits, interruptions or downtime

Électricité de France (EDF) produces, markets, and distributes electricity, as well as a wide range of natural gas, electricity and energy eco-efficiency services.

A significant enterprise, EDF is ranked #112 on the 2020 Forbes 2000 and employs nearly 160,000 people worldwide.

Headquartered in Paris, with €71.3 billion in revenues in 2019, EDF operates a diverse portfolio of 120+ gigawatts of generation capacity in Europe, South America, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

The challenge

For EDF, data availability is mission-critical. Through disk failures, server outages, upgrades, you name it — data must remain accessible to meet compliance requirements, safety requirements and business requirements. When there’s a problem, it’s visible to customers and the consequences are serious.

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“Our Scality RING deployment won an innovation award because it brought strong, resilient storage for multiple use cases at half the cost of competitive solutions.”

Ruggero Gatti

Data management engineer , EDF

The outcome

A new solution achieves more storage, flexibility and cost-savings.

The need to transition to a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solution prompted a major overhaul of EPS’ storage infrastructure environment.

The deployed solution includes the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, HPE scalable object storage with Scality RING, HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 storage, and the HPE Apollo 4510 Gen10 and HPE Apollo 4500 system, as well as Veeam for backup.

The EPS is currently storing 1.4 PB of data on its new storage platform. The HPE + Scality solution acts as a base layer for all the virtual infrastructure that supports EPS’ new digital asset management system. While the HPE GreenLake platform provides mission-critical, scalable performance, Scality RING offers the flexibility required to scale out the platform, store unstructured data, and put it onto performant hardware that cost-effectively meets the organization’s needs.