Swedish Service Provider DGC Selected Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform

Hedvig, Inc. announced that DGC, a Swedish network operator, has selected the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform to help lower costs and modernize its business.

DGC’s outsourcing and managed services division will use Hedvig as a foundation for sustainable, differentiated cloud services that can tailor storage, performance and DR services to individual customers. Hedvig is part of DGC’s investment in both technology and data center facilities to consolidate its outsourcing and managed services and establish product offerings.

Operating in a competitive managed services market, DGC reexamined their current storage infrastructure as it sought to cut costs, consolidate data centers and develop revenue streams. The company selected Hedvig because Hedvig met the requirements of providing storage software decoupled from underlying hardware while still enabling a set of data services. It also equips DGC with a flexible platform that delivers infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) products to its customers.

“In the past six years DGC has expanded through multiple strategic acquisitions resulting in a number of inherited infrastructure platforms,” said Magnus Blom, business area manager of outsourcing and managed services, DGC. “We wanted to lower overhead costs and consolidate into a modern infrastructure where hardware and software are decoupled. We looked for a software-defined solution and the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform met our expectations. With Hedvig, we get real-time multi-site replication, flexible scalability, high performance and a single platform that supports all needed storage protocols. The market is shifting fast and we are also looking forward to develop tomorrow’s offerings together with Hedvig.“

The Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform combines the power of distributed systems, the simplicity of cloud and a set of enterprise capabilities to deliver a performing storage system. It enables DGC to provide customized, tiered services for each of its customers in which different performance, availability and efficiency features can be bundled based on customer needs and price points. Additionally, It enables IaaS, PaaS and CaaS architectures and allows DGC to add new workloads without the need to purchase and operate disparate storage platforms.

After examining several competing solutions, DGC selected Hedvig
because of four key platform features:

Real-time replication: The Distributed Storage Platform’s built-in real-time replication enables customer data to be protected across all of DGC’s data centers, providing maximum availability of customer data even if one or more data centers go down.
Scalability: As DGC brings aboard new cloud customers, it requires a solution that can grow incrementally. Hedvig’s hyperscale architecture allows DGC to scale storage independent of compute, providing elasticity and flexibility.
Performance: Hedvig maintains performance by providing a two-tier architecture that scales based on the type of performance DGC customers need.
Full storage protocol support in a single platform: DGC uses block and file storage and plans to provide object storage in the future, which mandates a platform that unifies all three. With Hedvig, it avoids additional storage platforms that would increase complexity, risk and operating costs.

“We’re excited to be the trusted advisor and storage platform for companies such as DGC that are building truly modern infrastructure environments,” said Avinash Lakshman, CEO and founder, Hedvig. “DGC’s choice of Hedvig is a testament to the breadth and flexibility of the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform to power scalable, differentiated services for cloud providers.“