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Scality RING safeguards 24+ billion unique objects for over 4.9 million email subscribers

about About Telenet

Telenet is the largest cable operator in Belgium, providing media, telecommunications and entertainment services to residential and business customers. Its mission is to provide an ideal digital experience, and it prides itself on a culture of innovation to exceed the expectations of its 4.9+ million email users.

 

Telenet's growing subscriber base drove exponential storage-capacity growth, and it needed a solution that could scale with the business while lowering costs and keeping subscriber email 100% intact and available.

 

Since 2010, Scality RING has safeguarded more than 24 billion unique objects for nearly 5 million subscribers across multiple geo-distributed data centers with no service interruption — and eliminated the need for data backups.

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flag The Challenge

Exponential storage growth with zero tolerance for downtime
Telenet's growing subscriber base drove exponential storage-capacity growth, and it needed a solution that could scale with the business while lowering costs and keeping subscriber email 100% intact and available.

As Telenet's business has transformed and its subscriber base has increased, so has its need for storage capacity — and there are no signs of letting up. The company needed a solution that could easily grow with it — all while lowering costs, without compromising the other critical requirement: availability of data and service.

As our business has transformed and our user base has grown, our need for storage capacity has increased exponentially. However, scaling up hasn't required any maintenance windows or any downtime

Bart Provoost

Manager, Network Applications and Services, Telenet

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.

Bart Provoost

Manager, Network Applications and Services, Telenet

tick Solution

An email architecture designed end-to-end on Scality RING and HPE

Since 2010, Telenet has relied on Scality RING to keep its subscribers' email intact and available — even through multiple expansions and upgrades — with exceptional data durability and no service interruption. Its vast messaging storage system runs on multiple generations of HPE servers.
Scality RING
Zimbra suite
Multiple generations of HPE servers
24+ billion unique objects

Scality worked hand-in-hand with Telenet to design their email architecture end-to-end, including customization of the Zimbra suite and the migration strategy for moving users' email from the legacy platform to Scality RING.

list The Results

24+ billion objects protected, backups eliminated
Hassle-free scalability
Zero downtime
Extreme durability
Massively scalable, Scality RING grows without worry — up to 100s of petabytes.
100% availability is paramount; Scality RING supports very high levels of app workloads and concurrent user access.

Telenet's messaging storage system runs like clockwork, safeguarding more than 24 billion unique objects for Telenet's nearly 5 million subscribers.

Telenet's RING is distributed across multiple, geographically-distributed data centers to ensure data resiliency and always-on availability. Because of that data distribution on Scality RING (unlike with traditional NAS or SAN storage), the need for data backups has been eliminated, resulting in huge savings both in terms of time and cost.

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