Icade

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Modernizes its backups and strengthens the digital resilience of its infrastructure with Scality ARTESCA

about About Icade

Icade is a leading French real estate investment and development company specializing in commercial and residential projects with a strong focus on sustainable urban environments. As part of the Caisse des Dépôts group, Icade is committed to building the city of 2050: sustainable, inclusive, and resilient. Digitalization plays a central role in this mission, with hybrid cloud, automation, and collaborative tools supporting business performance.

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Backups relied on magnetic tapes and a mix of tools — complex, time-consuming processes — and Icade needed a centralized, high-performance, immutable third backup copy with fewer manual interventions.

 

Immutable daily and monthly backups are now centralized on ARTESCA, eliminating tape management constraints and manual air-gaps while simplifying administration and reducing team workload.

flag The Challenge

Securing and modernizing backups at a company at the heart of urban transformation
Backups relied on magnetic tapes and a mix of tools — complex, time-consuming processes — and Icade needed a centralized, high-performance, immutable third backup copy with fewer manual interventions.

Within its department of Information Systems and Digital (DISN), Icade infrastructure teams had a clear objective to improve the reliability and simplicity of critical data backups, while reducing manual interventions.

At the time, backups relied on magnetic tapes and a mix of tools, resulting in complex and time-consuming processes.

We wanted to create a third backup copy that is centralized, high-performance, and immutable.

Alexandre Faura

Infrastructure Architect, ICADE

Data protection isn’t just important; it’s essential. If someone hit us with ransomware and encrypted our systems, then we’d have a big problem. We’d risk production, compliance, and customer trust.

Alexandre Faura

Infrastructure Architect, ICADE

tick Solution

A rigorous approach, a controlled deployment, and a smooth relationship

After evaluating several options, the choice naturally turned to Scality ARTESCA, recognized for its robustness, sovereignty, and compatibility with hybrid environments.
Scality ARTESCA

Scality's reputation in the world of object storage, as well as its ability to offer a scalable and easy-to-manage solution, were decisive factors,

Alexandre Faura

Infrastructure Architect, ICADE

The implementation was exemplary: all prerequisites had been defined and validated in advance with the Scality teams. The deployment was executed quickly, without incident.

For organizations still hesitating, I would highlight the simplicity of administration, reliability of support, and the significant reduction in on-site interventions that we experienced.

Alexandre Faura

Infrastructure Architect, ICADE

list The Results

Sovereign, immutable, and hassle-free backup
Operational peace of mind
Simplicity of administration
Time savings
Infrastructure teams gain efficiency and ease of work.
The console is intuitive, and daily operations are reduced to just a few checks.

Thanks to ARTESCA, Icade has now centralized all its immutable backups on a modern, sovereign S3 platform.

While weekly tape operations required a physical air-gap and regular interventions, the Scality solution now enables immutable daily and monthly backups that are instantly accessible and protected against tampering.

ARTESCA is a modern, sovereign, and reassuring solution: it frees up time and strengthens confidence in our infrastructure.

Alexandre Faura

Infrastructure Architect, ICADE

Responsive local support: The responsiveness and attentiveness of the Scality teams, praised by Icade.

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