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Scale Computing Adopted by STES, Provider of Outsourced Cashing and Banking Services

Across Tahiti and French Polynesia

Scale Computing, Inc. announced that STES, a Tahiti’s provider of outsourced cashing and banking services, has adopted a hyperconverged IT solution based on its HC3 edge and hyperconverged platform.

The installation combines servers, storage and a hypervisor with backup and DR capabilities – all within a single unit. Scale Computing’s solution enables STES to create a scalable, available and affordable IT environment while delivering on the fast data recovery essential for STES’ banking and financial service operations.

Many of Tahiti’s most prominent businesses, including the Bank of Polynesia and the Bank of Tahiti, rely on STES for outsourced financial services. STES processes more than $70 million a month in French Polynesia currency transactions and also produces customized check books for public and private sector use. It will also offer a digital banking service in a few months to French Polynesia customers. Because the company operates with a lean IT department, a simple and powerful IT solution was needed to keep in-house IT focused on their core responsibilities and cut troubleshooting and maintenance time to a minimum.

To give you an understanding of our requirements, let’s just take a look at our check production business. We produce over 350,000 check pages each month for our clients. That’s a huge volume of work in terms of preparation and administration and requires an incredible amount of supporting systems and data. So it’s critical that our IT infrastructure is accessible at all times and that we can ensure checks are issued on time and to client specifications,” said STES CIO Christophe Courcaud. “Scale Computing delivers on the necessary data protection because of the built-in backup and remote replication functionality in its HC3 platform. Scale Computing also provides the necessary scalability to grow and develop our business further without the worry of unexpected overheads that come with more traditional IT deployments.

In order to protect critical data and maintain an effective DR strategy, STES replicates data between two sites on the island. The sites are 7.5 miles apart to allow local protection in case of natural disasters such as hurricanes or earthquakes. Snapshots are taken on an hourly or daily basis depending on client requirements and, in the event of a disaster, data can be recovered within 15 minutes to an hour.

By deploying Scale Computing, STES has removed the need for a complicated and potentially expensive IT infrastructure. This is because our HC3 platform eliminates the requirement for VMware, separate backup software and DR software. I’d estimate that it has also cut the time that the company’s IT team spends managing their infrastructure,” said Dan Pierce, VP of strategic sales, Scale Computing. “This deployment demonstrates the truly global need for intelligent edge computing and the desire across all businesses and all sectors to bring automation to their IT systems.

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