Telenet

Telenet

Telenet the largest cable operator in Belgium

The challenge

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.

Enter Scality.

The outcome

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.

Their vast messaging storage system runs like clockwork on multiple generations of HPE servers, safeguarding more than 24 billion unique objects for Telenet’s nearly 5 million subscribers.

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. 

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.