Leading MSP scales its data protection business and achieves 30% TCO savings

But as Somerville's data protection practice grew, customers' storage requirements grew with it, making it harder to keep up.

To scale the data storage services Somerville offers, the company implemented a petabyte-scale Scality RING stretched across three sites in Sydney and Melbourne (for zero RPO/RTO site protection) on HPE Apollo 4200 servers. Since the initial deployment, they've doubled capacity and are looking to add more workloads to expand their customer offerings.

Scality RING S3 object storage

Veeam backup software

HPE Apollo 4200 servers

Petabyte-scale deployment across three sites

Veeam writes backup data to Scality RING over the S3 API. This data is immediately protected with object lock, guaranteeing immutability and unbreakable ransomware protection. The delivery of Scality S3 object storage with HPE GreenLake provides scalable performance and pay-as-you-grow flexibility.

The solution helps Somerville manage unlimited amounts of data with reduced risk, easier management, and at lower cost for both them and their customers. Instead of worrying about data silos, Somerville manages all customer data from a single pane of glass. "Scality gives us worry-free capacity expansion to any level of capacity and performance. We can now scale out all customer data on one platform, which is fundamentally important for us." Craig says.

Somerville and their customers get a geographically dispersed, highly resilient solution with zero RPO/RTO, 100% availability and 14 nines of durability. All for a fraction of the effort they needed previously: "We have one engineer who manages the platform day-to-day," Craig says. "He spends more time on improvements and developing the platform than the time the entire team used to spend just keeping the lights on. It’s completely changed the way we manage the data protection practice."

Scality's immutable object storage extends Veeam's enterprise-grade capabilities, ensuring Somerville's total confidence in their ability to keep customer data secure and safe from ransomware exfiltration, modification or destruction. And without access and egress fees, Scality also allows Somerville to compete with hyperscalers like AWS, giving their Australian customers an affordable alternative to the public cloud that keeps their data in-country.

Faster customer onboarding with seamless scalability

~30% TCO savings and strong revenue growth in their data protection business

With Scality object storage, Somerville has seen strong growth in their data protection business, while at the same time achieving savings of around 30%. "The migration onto the Scality platform enabled us to scale our data protection business and, as a result, grow our client base," Craig says. "It also allowed us to streamline the backend of the business, so we could decrease the cost of operating and maintaining the platform."

One of Somerville’s customers recently faced a situation where a hacker managed to lock all of their on-prem data. Thanks to Scality, Craig and his team were able to recover all 19 of their servers within a single weekend. "Without immutability, chances are the customer would have lost all their data," Craig says. "Scality allowed us to restore that data off the Scality platform quickly, and then back into production with as minimal a time frame as possible…Life would’ve been vastly different for the customer if we didn’t have the Scality platform sitting underneath their backups."

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