{"id":32758,"date":"2019-08-12T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T07:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=32758"},"modified":"2019-08-14T09:16:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T08:16:17","slug":"telent-empowers-digital-transformation-with-scality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2019\/08\/12\/telent-empowers-digital-transformation-with-scality\/","title":{"rendered":"telent empowers Digital Transformation with Scality RING solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

telent, a leading technology company which specialises in the effective operation of critical national infrastructure, has empowered Digital Transformation and hybrid cloud for a variety of use cases from rail and traffic, public safety and defence to enterprise after deploying the Scality RING solution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

telent is a leading technology company which\ndesigns and delivers solutions and services for organisations to create,\nimprove and maintain their mission-critical communications networks, vital in\nthe effective operation of the nation\u2019s infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of many of the UK and Ireland’s\nbest-known brands, telent operates within a variety of industry sectors\nincluding transport, service provider, public safety, defence and\ngovernment\/public services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

telent\u2019s industry expertise and professionalism\nmake the company a partner of choice for organisations at the forefront of the\ndigital revolution including Highways England, HM Coastguard, London Ambulance\nService, Merseyside Fire and Rescue, Metropolitan Police, Network Rail, RNLI,\nSky, Transport for London, Virgin Media and Vodafone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the company, which\nis made up of around 2,300 employees, <\/em>decided to develop a cloud\nservices platform, it looked for a scalable, secure and simple storage\nsolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

telent turned to Scality\u2019s Ring solution \u2013 a software defined native\nfile and object store solution for large scale on-premises storage of\nunstructured data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nspoke to Matthew Latter, Solutions Architect at telent, to find out more about\nthe benefits of the system. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What were the key challenges you were looking to\naddress ahead of selecting Scality?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When telent decided to develop a cloud service\nplatform, we did so against a set of design principles \u2013 the six S\u2019s of\nsecurity, scalability, speed, stability, simplicity and serviceability. The platform provides services that support national\ncritical infrastructure so it was important that every component part of the\nplatform excelled in its ability to meet the design principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you choose to work with the provider and\nto select the solution\/s?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

telent has a number of strategic vendor\npartnerships in data centre technologies, HPE, Juniper and Cisco being the three\nmain ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was through our HPE relationship that\nwe have built our relationship with Scality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When telent decided to build a secure and\nmanaged cloud services platform we went to our strategic partners with a set of\ndesign principles and produced a design based on HPE server and storage as\nthe basis of the platform, Scality for object storage and Juniper for the\nlayers of network and security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More specifically, the requirement was for cost effective scale out\nobject storage in a secure, stable and resilient fashion and Scality ticked\nevery box we required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, with HPE being a strategic\ninfrastructure partner to telent, leveraging the strong ties between HPE and\nScality, and layering the Scality Software Defined Storage \u2018stack\u2019 on top of\nHPE Apollo server hardware produced a very compelling solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How long did it take to implement the solution?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The implementation of the Scality solution was\npart of the wider and overall build out of the telent cloud platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does the new system integrate with your\nexisting systems?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scality object storage is used in the telent\nCloud Platform in a number of ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. As a scale out, cost\neffective object tier of storage to support any customer consuming IaaS\nresources from the telent Cloud Platform.<\/li>
  2. As a scale out, cost\neffective tier of storage supporting telent\u2019s digital asset management solution\nthat was primarily developed around digital evidence management for UK police\nforces. This stores digital evidence uploaded by police officers that is\nmanaged by an application providing intelligent search, scan, analysis,\nmanagement and secure sharing of assets.<\/li>
  3. As an S3 compliant scale\nout storage tier to support telent\u2019s Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) service\noffering, enabling us to automatically \u2018age\u2019 data out to a longer-term\nretention tier of storage.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    How do your customers benefit from the system?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    telent\u2019s customers benefit by having access to an\nobject storage tier that is secure, resilient, massively scalable and cost\neffective. With the Scality Ring\nproviding resilience across multiple data centres and supporting a multi-tenant\nenvironment of cloud services, it provides telent with the ability to design\nand create new services knowing that the Scality Ring is in place and already\nproviding the benefits mentioned above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What are the main benefits of the system?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Being software defined and therefore decoupled\nfrom the hardware, it gives us the flexibility to deploy it on server\ninfrastructure that is right sized for the solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Other areas are the resilience it provides. Our\nsolutions are used to support national critical services and so to retain data\nin long term retention \u2013 lifetime retention in some cases \u2013 it is essential\nthat we can rely on the storage platform to deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Scalability is also key. As a service provider,\nwe need to be able scale the solution in situ, while running, with no impact to\nservices. Couple this with the data retention requirements and petabyte scale\nbecomes very important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    How far has the system future-proofed your\ncompany?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It has given us a platform on which multiple\nservices can rely on in a multi-tenant, service provider world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What does the launch of\nRING8 \u2013 enhancements to the product <\/strong>enable unique data visibility and\ncontrol across distributed sites and clouds \u2013 <\/strong>mean for telent and its customers?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    RING8 provides a number of benefits. Enhanced\nsecurity and multi-tenant features fit very well in supporting telent\u2019s\ncustomers and services so are always welcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The addition of eXtended Data Management (XDM)\nis of particular interest as it provides data management capabilities across\nclouds and multiple RINGs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Many of telent\u2019s customers have solutions that are\nedge centric when it comes to data creation, so being able to provide data\nmanagement and governance from edge to core with a single namespace is an\ninteresting prospect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What trends are you seeing\/expecting to see\nwithin the infrastructure space?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Hybrid and Edge to core are really hot topics at\nthe moment. Pretty much every customer conversation starts by understanding\ntheir approach to all things \u2018cloud\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A hybrid model brings with it many benefits and\ncoupled with a data conversation (unstructured) around where it is created, how\nit is managed, protected and secured should lead directly into a RING8 and XDM\nconversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    More specifically around infrastructure, with\nmore and more solutions becoming software defined and therefore decoupled from\ninfrastructure, the underlying infrastructure becomes more of a commodity item.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    However, the infrastructure layer still needs to\nprovide resilience, ease of management (via industry standard REST API) and be\nsecure as not to undermine the capabilities you layer on top using software\ndefined applications and solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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