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CASE STUDY

THE FACT THAT GDPR CAME INTO FORCE THIS YEAR AND THE EMPHASIS THAT THE COMPANY PLACES ON VALUE-ADDED SERVICES THAT IT WRAPS AROUND ITS SOLUTIONS, IT MADE SENSE TO FURTHER LEVERAGE HYPERSTORE IN ITS GLOBAL LOCATIONS.

Calligo – The trusted cloud
Calligo is an innovative, global cloud service provider offering mid-sized companies the highest levels of data privacy and security, application performance guarantees, commercial flexibility and a personalised support service. It has data centres in a number of global locations including the UK, Jersey, Guernsey, Bermuda, Singapore, Zurich and Geneva.
The company offers a range of cloud-based managed services to its clients, covering all aspects of infrastructure, applications and communications. These include Infrastructure-as-a-Service( IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service( SaaS) products, as well as strategy, security, managed and on-boarding services. Each offering is underpinned by a strong focus on privacy, as demanded by the EU General Data Protection Regulation( GDPR). Client workloads cover everything from financial, insurance and legal applications, to the large demands of the online gaming industry.
Background
Just over a year ago, responding to customer demand for object storage-based services, Calligo partnered with enterprise object storage systems leader Cloudian to deploy its HyperStore solution. The cloud service provider chose Cloudian’ s S3-compatible object storage offering because it was a very well supported storage solution, allowing for easy integration and management.
Calligo deployed a fault-tolerant, disasterresilient service made up of Cloudian HyperStore appliances and Lenovo server infrastructure, with three nodes running across two data centres. Implementing Cloudian HyperStore technology enabled Calligo to provide cost-effective cloud storage while ensuring smooth interoperability and integration with its other cloud services.
According to Julian Box, Chief Executive Officer at Calligo, S3 compatibility for its storage proved to be a significant benefit for Calligo’ s clients, as many of them have
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