Swedish MSP Dustin Group Chooses SDS Solution From StorPool Storage

Dustin Group AB is a MSP publicly listed company, with approximately €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) in sales, 1800+ employees and 10+ data centers across Europe.

To meet the changing needs of customers, it needed to have an efficient cloud platform. However, over time they had acquired multiple IT and storage platforms that had become too large, complex, and expensive to manage. The company needed to consolidate its various hardware and software platforms into a standardised cloud platform that serves all its business units and customers.

After carrying out a detailed study of the new technologies available, Dustin selected StorPool’s SDS platform for their primary and secondary storage needs. They implemented a solution in several geographical locations for primary storage, backup and DR. The platform allowed them to replace their existing diverse storage estate and replace specialized storage SAN arrays with software running on standard servers.

On the software side, the project replaced the traditional VMware and Hyper-V software stacks with a new-age IT stack powered by Linux and KVM, managed by OpenNebula’s cloud management platform.

On the hardware side, Dustin’s cloud design uses standard hardware from multiple vendors – HPE, Supermicro, Nvidia Networking (Mellanox) and the primary storage is running on NVMe devices.

The cloud platform enabled the MSP to streamline business operations. The end result is a powerful, scalable, API-driven cloud platform, which was easy to deploy across all its data centres.

It allowed the company to streamline operations, increase competitiveness, eliminate vendor lock-in, and improve service quality. All of these achieved with low capital expenditures and fewer IT staff.

“We are very pleased with the engagement with StorPool and their ability to meet our special needs. In addition to the unique storage solution, they provide us with first-class support with which we are very happy,” said Dan Mårtensson, product manager infrastructure and cloud-services, Dustin.

With the transition to new-age IT and building a software-defined cloud, Dustin managed to expand its technological leadership on the European market.

“The project of Dustin Group is impressive. Both in terms of the scope/size of the exercise and also in terms of the willingness of Dustin’s management to use the best new tools available to innovate and set their business apart from their competitors,” said Boyan Ivanov, CEO, StorPool Storage.

The joint project with Dustin, is a testimonial of the capabilities of StorPool Storage in powering large-scale IT infrastructure projects. This storage solution is recognized for its performance, data management capabilities and customer support. In the last years, the company solidified its ability to provide a better replacement to traditional storage arrays, thus enabling businesses to implement flexible new-age, multi-platform storage solutions, which eliminate complexity and deliver agility.

Case study: Dustin Group replaces VMware and Hyper-V with a New-Age IT Stack