Dustin Group Replaces VMware and Hyper-V

It is a IT and MSP with operations in Northern Europe.
It offers IT products with associated services and solutions to companies, the public sector, and private individuals. Their main focus is on SMBs.
It has more than 1,800 employees. More than 90% of its income comes from the corporate market.
Dustin Group has been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since 2015 and has its head office in Sweden.

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Challenge

To meet the changing needs of customers, it needed to have a highly efficient cloud platform. However, over time the company had acquired multiple IT platforms that had become too large, complex, and expensive to manage efficiently.

It launched a large-scale project with 3 primary goals:

Consolidate its various hardware and software platforms into a next-gen standardized cloud platform that serves all their business units and customers
Streamline their operating expenses by eliminating IT management overhead, while simultaneously providing superior performance and service quality
Implement new technologies that remove old limitations and increase the flexibility of their platform, enabling faster responses to market dynamics

Solution

Dustin embarked to do the unthinkable – replace their traditional software stacks, VMware and Hyper-V, with a next-gen IT stack powered by KVM.

The project also involved replacing the siloed pieces of specialised legacy hardware infrastructure. This included replacing SAN/NAS storage and FC networking with SDS and Software-defined Networking (SDN), running on standard hardware, as per the forward-looking Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) architecture.

To fill in the missing pieces, Dustin engineers did research on the best-in-class innovative technologies and extensively tested several of them. It selected StorPool Storage for their primary and secondary block storage needs an OpenNebula as their cloud management system, running the KVM hypervisor.

The end result is a powerful, scalable, API-driven, and efficient cloud platform, which was easy to deploy across all Dustin data centres. It allowed them to increase competitiveness, eliminate vendor lock-in, and improve service quality. All with low capital expenditures, optimised operating expenses, and fewer internal IT operations experts.

Why Dustin chose StorPool?

Proven product quality and track record in next-gen clouds
The solution is feature-rich and met Dustin’s complex needs
Multi-platform support – StorPool can provide storage to multiple IT stacks from one system – be it KVM, VMware, Hyper-V, bare metal, Kubernetes and more
Support quality – StorPool’s team is knowledgeable and easily accessible
Fully managed Service (FMS) which offloaded Dustin’s IT operations team from the day-to-day storage operations. Storage management, monitoring, and fine-tuning are all handled by StorPool
Pay-as-you-grow pricing model with seamless scalability

Key Benefits