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Leading telecom operator expands cloud-based services for 25+ million customers with Scality

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Not afraid to innovate, SFR is France's number one alternative telecommunications operator, providing voice, video, data and internet telecommunications services, as well as professional services for consumers and businesses. It serves more than 25 million customers.

 

In 2010 SFR needed to consolidate internal storage services, including backup and archiving, on a flexible, easily scalable platform at low TCO.

 

SFR turned its internal Scality RING platform into revenue-generating customer services (SFR Sync, SFR Backup and a CDN service) and today stores more than 7PB of data on HPE servers via both file and object interfaces.

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flag The Challenge

Consolidating backup and archiving without sacrificing flexibility or TCO
In 2010 SFR needed to consolidate internal storage services, including backup and archiving, on a flexible, easily scalable platform at low TCO.

It started in 2010 when SFR was looking to consolidate internal storage services, including backup and archiving. The flexibility of the Scality RING platform, as well as its low TCO and easy scalability, led the SFR team to choose Scality.

tick Solution

One shared storage environment powering a growing portfolio of cloud services

By 2012, SFR saw that they could build services for their customers using the same technology that was serving their own internal business well, so they developed two external services using Scality RING — SFR Sync and SFR Backup — and offered the services to consumer and business customers.

Scality is so much more than a storage supplier. By working with Scality, we benefit from a professional team of storage experts that have helped us maintain leadership in this industry through innovation and with services that really help our customers.

Bruno Beaugrand

Development & Marketing Cloud Director, SFR

SFR leverages the flexibility of the Scality RING to build a broad portfolio of cloud-based services, supporting a variety of applications for online backup and archiving, file sync and share applications, video on demand and several mobile applications — all from a single, shared storage environment.

list The Results

From internal backup platform to 7PB+ of revenue-generating services

SFR has since expanded both its service offerings and storage capacity. In 2014, they added a content delivery network (CDN) service to the portfolio — and they just keep growing.

Today, they store more than 7PB of data on HPE servers running Scality RING software-defined storage using both file and object interfaces to a variety of applications, including Commvault, Symantec, Ctera and Nomadesk. SFR has strengthened its customer-first reputation and grown its offerings with Scality RING.

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