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Scality secures growing petabyte-scale backups for Natixis

about About Natixis

Natixis is a French multinational financial services firm specialized in asset and wealth management, corporate and investment banking, insurance and payments. A subsidiary of Groupe BPCE — the second-largest banking group in France — Natixis counts nearly 16,000 employees across 38 countries, serving corporations, financial institutions, sovereign and supranational organizations, and the customers of Groupe BPCE's networks.

 

As a geographically distributed organization with plans to keep growing globally, Natixis needed a cost-effective, scale-out backup storage architecture delivering high durability, rapid data recovery and improved performance.

 

Natixis demonstrated as much as 30% better throughput than its prior storage solution and now secures 100% of company-wide backups on Scality RING, expanding seamlessly multiple times.

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flag The Challenge

Distributed data and global growth outgrew traditional backup storage
As a geographically distributed organization with plans to keep growing globally, Natixis needed a cost-effective, scale-out backup storage architecture delivering high durability, rapid data recovery and improved performance.

Being a geographically distributed organization, with likewise distributed data, Natixis needed more flexibility. As they evaluated their options for backup data storage, it quickly became apparent that it was time for a move to a scale-out storage architecture.

With plans to continue growing globally, Natixis sought a cost-effective storage solution for their backups that would also provide the high durability their business demands, plus rapid data recovery and improved performance.

What drove us to Scality was the simplicity and efficiency of the solution. Its robustness means no accidents, no downtime, no surprises.

Herve Baldeweck

Project director, backup, Natixis

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.

Herve Baldeweck

Project director, backup, Natixis

tick Solution

Software-defined storage that plugs into IBM Spectrum Protect and Rubrik

Natixis' list of requirements led them to software-defined storage — and Scality. They were able to see that Scality RING was well-integrated and worked smoothly with their backup solution, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). The throughput also met their needs quite well — in fact, as much as 30% improvement in throughput was demonstrated as compared to their prior storage solution, resulting in a nice bump in performance of their backup and restore operations.
Scality RING
IBM Spectrum Protect
Rubrik

Their overall backup strategy has also evolved. They now store one week's backups via Rubrik to Scality RING, thanks to the great integration between Rubrik and Scality RING via S3. Longer-term backups still use the IBM Spectrum Protect and Scality RING solution.

list The Results

100% of company-wide backups on RING — with 30% better throughput
Scalability
Reliability
Performance
Natixis needed a solution that would grow with their data — they've seamlessly expanded their Scality RING multiple times.
Thanks to the RING's self-healing features, Scality maintains data and its integrity, even through hardware failures.

It wasn't long before their first expansion. In fact, Natixis has expanded their backup footprint, easily and seamlessly, multiple times. The bottom line: Natixis is 100% invested, with all company-wide backups secured on Scality RING.

We're 100% invested. All of our company-wide backups are stored in Scality RING.

Herve Baldeweck

Project director, backup, Natixis

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