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evidence management for UK
police forces. This stores digital
evidence uploaded by police officers
that is managed by an application
providing intelligent search, scan,
analysis, management and secure
sharing of assets.
3. As an S3 compliant scale out storage
tier to support telent’s Backup-as-a-
Service (BaaS) service offering, enabling
us to automatically ‘age’ data out to a
longer-term retention tier of storage. What does the launch of RING8
– enhancements to the product
enable unique data visibility and
control across distributed sites
and clouds – mean for telent and
its customers?
How do customers benefit from
the system? The addition of eXtended Data
Management (XDM) is of particular
interest as it provides data management
capabilities across clouds and
multiple RINGs.
telent’s customers benefit by having
access to an object storage tier that is
secure, resilient, massively scalable and
cost-effective. With the Scality Ring
providing resilience across multiple data
centres and supporting a multi-tenant
environment of cloud services, it provides
telent with the ability to design and create
new services knowing that the Scality
Ring is in place and already providing the
benefits mentioned above.
What are the main benefits of
the system?
Being software-defined and therefore
decoupled from the hardware, it gives
us the flexibility to deploy it on server
infrastructure that is right sized for
the solution.
How long did it take to implement
the solution?
The implementation of the Scality solution
was part of the wider and overall build out
of the telent cloud platform.
How does the new system integrate
with telent’s existing systems?
Scality object storage is used in the telent
Cloud Platform in a number of ways:
1. As a scale out, cost-effective object
tier of storage to support any customer
consuming IaaS resources from the
telent Cloud Platform.
2. As a scale out, cost-effective tier of
storage supporting telent’s digital
asset management solution that was
primarily developed around digital
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Other areas are the resilience it provides.
telent’s solutions are used to support
national critical services and so to retain
data in long-term retention – lifetime
retention in some cases – it is essential
that telent can rely on the storage
platform to deliver.
Scalability is also key. As a service
provider, telent needed to be able scale
the solution in situ, while running, with no
impact to services. Couple this with the
data retention requirements and petabyte
scale becomes very important.
How far has the system future-
proofed telent?
It has given it a platform on which multiple
services can rely on in a multi-tenant,
service provider world.
RING8 provides a number of benefits.
Enhanced security and multi-tenant
features fit very well in supporting
telent’s customers and services so are
always welcome.
Many of telent’s customers have solutions
that are edge-centric when it comes to
data creation, so being able to provide
data management and governance from
Edge to core with a single namespace is
an interesting prospect.
What trends are you seeing/
expecting to see within the
infrastructure space?
Hybrid and Edge to core are really hot
topics at the moment.
Pretty much every customer
conversation starts by understanding
their approach to all things ‘cloud’.
A hybrid model brings with it many
benefits and coupled with a data
conversation (unstructured) around where
it is created, how it is managed, protected
and secured should lead directly into a
RING8 and XDM conversation.
More specifically around infrastructure,
with more and more solutions becoming
software-defined and therefore decoupled
from infrastructure, the underlying
infrastructure becomes more of a
commodity item.
However, the infrastructure layer still
needs to provide resilience, ease of
management (via industry standard
REST API) and be secure as not to
undermine the capabilities you layer
on top using software-defined
applications and solutions. ◊
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