Tiscali Selects Scality

Tiscali S.p.A., an independent telecommunication company in Italy, selected Scality and its object-based RING storage platform to develop its own public cloud service platform in Italy.

"Scalable, reliable and cost-effective storage lies at the heart of offering carrier-grade cloud services," explained Salvatore Pulvirenti, Tiscali’s CIO. "We found with Scality’s RING technology the best software solution to develop the new service platform we are planning to market in the next future."

Scality RING is an object-based storage software infrastructure that enables Mail Service Provider, Hosted Services providers and Telco companies to offer the high performance of a storage area network with the cost savings and scalability of the cloud.

Scality’s technology will allow Tiscali to manage a storage pool with unlimited capacity, sure in the knowledge that data is completely load-balanced and replicated so that, when a drive or a whole machine fails – for whatever reason – the data integrity of the storage pool remains intact.

Jérôme Lecat, Scality’s CEO, said: "We have a long lasting relationship with Tiscali. We are very proud of this renewed trust under these new Cloud Storage services. Our hardware-agnostic technology is a perfect fit for Tiscali. The power and unlimited scalability of our RING technology will allow Tiscali to retain its data close to customers, meaning that lower latency and higher reliability levels become an integral feature of its REST compliant range of cloud services."
 
As 30 June 2010, Tiscali had more than 740 thousand customers in Italy, of which roughly 582 thousand ADSL customers. Around 362 thousand of these are Dual Play customers.