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END USER INSIGHT r, Hy b rid IT Pre -Sa le PE at H s S o lu t ion Architect TELENT EMPOWERS DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WITH SCALITY 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. Matthew Latter, Hybrid IT Pre- Sales Solution Architect at HPE, explains more about the implementation. www.intelligentdatacentres.com t elent is a leading technology company which designs and delivers solutions and services for organisations to create, improve and maintain their mission-critical communications networks, vital in the effective operation of the nation’s infrastructure. At the heart of many of the UK and Ireland’s best-known brands, telent operates within a variety of industry sectors including transport, service provider, public safety, defence and government/public services. telent’s industry expertise and professionalism make the company a partner of choice for organisations at the forefront of the digital revolution including Highways England, HM Coastguard, London Ambulance Service, Merseyside Fire and Rescue, Metropolitan Police, Network Rail, RNLI, Sky, Transport for London, Virgin Media and Vodafone. When the company, which is made up of around 2,300 employees, decided to develop a cloud services platform, it looked for a scalable, secure and simple storage solution. telent turned to Scality’s Ring solution – a software defined native file and object store solution for large-scale on-premises storage of unstructured data. We spoke to Matthew Latter, Hybrid IT Pre-Sales Solution Architect at HPE, to find out more about the benefits of the system. What were the key challenges telent was looking to address ahead of selecting Scality? When telent decided to develop a cloud service platform, it did so against a set of Issue 12 47