Eurosystem SpA adopted Cubbit DS3 to make S3 cloud object storage available with GDPR compliance, greater security and extreme resilience, and to generate new revenue streams.
Cubbit object storage
Eurosystem SpA is a systems integrator based in Italy with a speciality in the IT industry. After over 40 years of expertise in technical systems and cyber security, Eurosystem SpA now supports more than 800 business customers in Italy, mainly in the northern region, with customised implementations, training and ongoing support.
The company addresses specialised markets and industries that need robust security and cost-effective data storage, such as manufacturing, sports, telcommunications and media. Recently, the company has increased its revenue from storage services by a large margin.
The company can now generate new revenue streams from clients in vertical markets, and better maintain its customer base by making affordable, data resilient S3 cloud object storage available with a greater data sovereignty – control over the access to and location, encryption and resiliency of users’ data – irrespective of geographical location. Eurosystem SpA has plans in place to manage one Petabyte of its customers' data by the end of 2025.
Managing Cyber-threats
This revenue increase stems from the realisation that ransomware attacks and other cyber-threats have grown more sophisticated, targeting both client-side and server-side vulnerabilities with precision. Eurosystem SpA had been searching for an immutable storage system, which allows data to be accessed as needed but not modified, to protect its customers' data. Compatibility with the Veeam backup client was another requirement, as most of Eurosystem's customers rely on it.
Eurosystem has adopted Cubbit DS3 Composer, software that combines features of traditional cloud services and on-premises systems, while mitigating many of the associated challenges. DS3 uses the geographically-distributed nature of S3 storage, and enables organisations to set up cloud storage environments that operate according to their own rules.
The company had considered various commonly-used S3 cloud and on-premises storage systems over the years. Although S3 in the cloud was easy to deploy and operate, no guarantee could be made regarding security, compliance with data location regulations, or the ongoing cost of egress, deletion and bucket replication fees.
Making an anti-ransomware backup with a Veeam client.
On-prem storage brought sovereignty and compliance but also high upfront costs for hardware, licences, physical rooms and dedicated IT personnel to deploy, install and maintain the system. Also, scaling on-prem storage capacity must typically be carried out manually and is time consuming. Finally, the time and money needed to set up redundancy over multiple nodes manually was greater than with other solutions.
Resilience Through Geo-Distribution
Using Cubbit DS3 Composer, resources can be collected from any environment – public cloud, on-prem and/or edge servers – can be exposed as an S3 object store repository. Management is handled through an SaaS control plane called the Coordinator, centralised intelligence that optimises the payload distribution across the network.
The Coordinator monitors the files' location and functional metadata, and stores all payloads on the distributed storage nodes, achieving high performance and resilience through geo-distribution. From there, the user can organise resources in custom-designed networks that are also geographically distributed.
Cubbit DS3 users have cloud storage with up to 15 9s of data durability, and pay fixed storage costs that include all the main S3 APIs. Eurosystem protects data not only on the client-side, but also on the server-side through Cubbit's geo-distribution and encryption. On the cient-side, Cubbit’s object Lock prevents deletion or modification of object versions, and IAM policies may be used to allow or deny users to perform certain actions in a Cubbit project.
Cubbit's GDPR compliance and geo-fencing capabilities mean that Eurosystem SpA can now comply with regional regulations and laws impacting the industries where its its customers operate, enabling the company to create new revenue streams — an outcome usually associated with on-prem solutions. With the Cubbit deployment, storage capacity scale and maintenance are automatically managed without upfront investments or IT staff, in a few minutes.
Immutable Off-site S3 Storage
Nicola Bosello, Board Member and Sales Director of Eurosystem, said, "We searched for a long time for an immutable, off-site S3 storage solution that didn't come with an expensive, complex infrastructure setup, and was compliant with key requirements like GDPR.
“We have been offering Cubbit to our customers for a year now, receiving positive feedback for Cubbit's DS3 data localisation regulations and compliance capabilities within Europe, as well as its flexibility, speed of deployment, and ease of scaling storage space in a few hours. The pricing is also straightforward, without hidden costs. By increasing cyber-resilience in our portfolio, we have been able to reach new customers." www.cubbit.io
