Hedvig, the company modernizing storage and accelerating enterprise adoption of private and hybrid clouds, today announced that DGC,
a leading 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 disaster recovery services to individual
customers. Hedvig is part of DGC's investment in both technology and
new data center facilities to consolidate its outsourcing and managed
services and establish new 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 new revenue streams. The
company selected Hedvig because unlike other solutions, Hedvig met the
requirements of providing storage software completely decoupled from
underlying hardware while still enabling a complete set of advanced data
services. It also equips DGC with a flexible platform that delivers new
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 at 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 complete set of
enterprise capabilities to deliver a modern, high-performance storage
system. Hedvig 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, Hedvig enables IaaS, PaaS and CaaS architectures
and easily 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 Hedvig
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 both elasticity and flexibility.
- High performance. Hedvig maintains performance by
providing a two-tier architecture that scales intelligently 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, DGC 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 of 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."
To learn more about how Hedvig provides storage for private and public cloud infrastructure visit the Hedvig website here: http://hed.vg/HedvigDGC.