Irish Telecom Provider Viatel Invests €1 Million Into Storage-as-a-Service

Ireland’s largest Irish-owned telecom provider Viatel invested €1 million in enterprise storage technologies to address the growing market demand for Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS).

Celebrating 20 years in business this year, the Dublin-based telecom provider Viatel has been connecting businesses across Ireland with high-speed connectivity in Ireland since 1997. The telecom managed services provider owns and operates a data centre in Blanchardstown to provide colocation, dedicated servers and cloud services.

STaaS solutions enable businesses to pay for enterprise storage on a pay-as-you-go subscription model, without the need for expensive upfront capital expenditure. The telecoms and data centre company have partnered with Zadara Storage Ltd. to provide reliable, high-performance, on-demand storage.

Commenting on the partnership, Viatel’s director Damien McCann said: “Viatel identified a gap in the market for Storage-as-a-Service as companies move away from CAPEX intense purchasing physical storage assets to support their business and opt to leverage Storage-as-a-Service OPEX models. This service very much complements our existing portfolio of enterprise connectivity and data centre solutions, guaranteeing that our clients’ cloud storage resides in Ireland in our secure state-of-the-art data centre facilities.”

Cloud storage is expected to grow rapidly, capturing roughly 25% of the massive $50B enterprise storage market by 2020.

Viatel now offers a complete suite of cloud storage services, including block, file and object-based storage, with advance data protection.

It is offering customers the ability to mirror data between their Dublin and Cork colocation facilities. With the rollout plan to launch a third availability zone in London by Q4.

At-rest and inflight data encryption with customer owned keys gives Viatel customers the confidence that their data is protected against security threats. The storage resource isolation feature gives Viatel the ability to guarantee each customer their own isolated resources, eliminating the noisy neighbour problem and also providing an additional layer of data security – a competitive advantage over Viatel’s competitors.

Other features include data snapshots, remote mirroring, online volume migration and metropolitan failover to ensure Viatel’s customer data is always available.