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LAKE dips into intelligent data storage to deliver agile backup-as-a-service offering

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LAKE Solutions is one of the leading cloud service providers in Switzerland. Customers of all types and sizes rely on LAKE, and each has their own unique needs — so LAKE has designed agility into its business at every level, making flexibility a key differentiating factor that helps the company maintain its competitive edge.

 

LAKE's aging backup offering forced large upfront capacity investments against unpredictable customer demand — costs LAKE still carried whenever a customer scaled back.

 

With Scality RING on HPE Apollo 4000 via HPE GreenLake, LAKE scales disk by disk, pays only for capacity actually used, and supports just about any backup software on the market.

flag The Challenge

Unpredictable demand and upfront capacity costs strained the old backup model
LAKE's aging backup offering forced large upfront capacity investments against unpredictable customer demand — costs LAKE still carried whenever a customer scaled back.

LAKE had a backup offering in need of an upgrade, but the company was in search of more than just upgraded hardware. With customers always top of mind, LAKE wanted its backup-as-a-service offering to bring new capabilities to the people it serves.

The constant uncertainty around demand and how much backup capacity customers would require over time had historically posed a major challenge. The old model required large upfront investment in capacity, and if a customer needed to scale back, LAKE still carried that cost — far from ideal.

One of our unique selling points is we can accommodate the various wishes of our customers. This is why we need a very flexible backup solution. Scality RING allows customers to back up to our cloud with just about any backup software on the market.

Roman Hegnauer

Chief sales officer, LAKE Solutions

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.

Roman Hegnauer

Chief sales officer, LAKE Solutions

tick Solution

Elastic BaaS on Scality RING + HPE Apollo 4000, delivered with HPE GreenLake

With flexibility at the core of LAKE's requirements, HPE Apollo 4000 systems and Scality RING, delivered with HPE GreenLake, provides the optimal solution for its cloud-delivered backup-as-a-service offering.
Scality RING software
HPE GreenLake
HPE Apollo 4000 systems

The combination of HPE Apollo 4000 systems and Scality RING, delivered with HPE GreenLake, makes our backup-as-a-service offering more elastic and secure. It gives us a durable platform for introducing additional services.

Daniele Palazzo

Chief operating officer, LAKE Solutions

list The Results

Cloud agility and economics — grow disk by disk, pay for what's used
Scale the solution
Manage costs
Accommodate individual customers
Scale the solution disk by disk instead of needing to add entire system nodes
Manage costs to be both competitive and profitable thanks to the ability to flex capacity up or down (and only pay for the actual capacity used)

The solution allows for accommodation of unpredictable customer demands with the agility and economics of the cloud.

Replicate data automatically between its two data centers, opening up the possibility for introducing new services to customers, such as data archiving.

Backup services: offer customers a choice of backup services thanks to RING's support of all major backup ISVs.

The combination of HPE Apollo 4000 systems and Scality RING, delivered with HPE GreenLake, makes our backup-as-a-service offering more elastic and secure. It gives us a durable platform for introducing additional services.

Daniele Palazzo

Chief operating officer, LAKE Solutions

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