Swiss-Based Cloud Service Provider Lake Solutions Deploys Scality RING

Scality SA, announced that LAKE Solutions AG, a cloud service provider in Switzerland and part of Ricoh Co. Ltd, has deployed its RING to power a new backup-as-a-service offering, providing its customers with a reliable and secure infrastructure with cloud-like economics.

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LAKE can assure customers that their data is available and compliant with local data protection regulations.

It deployed Scality RING storage clouds built on HPE Apollo 4000 Systems delivered with the HPE GreenLake as-a-service consumption model.

Thanks to this flexible storage platform and consumption-based pricing model, the company upgraded its backup offering with the long-term objective of expanding service offerings to customers. This flexibility allows LAKE to respond to demand surges much faster than they could in the past and helps handle the uncertainty in customer usage peaks. The solution enables LAKE’s customers to backup to the cloud with just about any backup software on the market.

Thanks to new infrastructure, LAKE has:

A new regionally-compliant service offering
Incremental and agile scale-out capability
Ensured data replication across two datacentres
Cloud-economics with up to 50% TCO savings

“With Scality RING and HPE Apollo 4000 Systems we are able to scale disk by disk instead of needing to add entire nodes as with traditional infrastructures,” explains Roger Schellenbaum, head of cloud infrastructure, LAKE. “As our customers grow their backup requirements, we can accommodate them at a very granular level, which is more cost-effective for them and for us.“

Ensuring absolute security and compliance with customer data has always been a priority for the cloud service provider.

He notes: “Scality RING enables us to spread backup data across our two data centres-something other vendors couldn’t do.“

The capability to automatically replicate data between two different locations opens up a broad range of possibilities for LAKE to introduce new services, such as data archiving, for customers. In addition, RING provides data-at-rest encryption to FIPS 140-2 level 1 standards, and HPE innovations in firmware protection, malware detection and recovery augmentation further strengthen the security.

One of LAKE’s selling points is that it accommodates the various demands of its customers, so flexibility was a key priority in the new solution. The cloud service provider takes advantage of the RING’s ecosystem of qualified partnerships to offer its customers a choice of backup services. LAKE has standardised on Veeam Software, Inc. and Commvault software and offers a managed service to backup customer data from their production environments to the HPE/Scality infrastructure.