Enecom shifts to InfiniBox

 To address growing cloud demand, rising data volumes, and evolving cyber threats, Japanese ICT provider Enecom Inc. upgrades its storage infrastructure using the Infinidat InfiniBox® platform.  The shift to Infinidat allows Enecom to achieve superior capacity, reliability, and cyber resilience while reducing overall costs and ensuring non-disruptive service for its Chugoku region customers, and ultimately strengthens Enecom’s leadership position in Japan’s service provider industry and benefits Enecom’s end-user clients with increased value.

Enecom has deployed five InfiniBoxes in its infrastructure: two systems for Enecom’s comprehensive enterprise-centric solution called “EneWings” using its own cloud infrastructure; two systems for internal Enecom virtual infrastructure; and one system for backup and verification.  The combination of high speed, high capacity, high reliability, autonomous system automation, and cyber resilience − at as much as one-half lower the cost per capacity compared to other vendors – is a differentiator for the service provider.

“When we were choosing how to upgrade our storage infrastructure, our customers told us that system reliability was particularly important and that the threat of damage caused by cyberattacks was a major concern.  We also had to address the rising costs of the legacy systems and the fallout when hardware failures occurred.  For the longer term, we needed to be proactive to be able to handle the expected future growth in cloud demand and to strengthen the appeal of our EneWings brand.  Infinidat met our requirements,” says Masayuki Chikaraishi of the Solution Service Department in the Solution Business Division, Enecom.

Having 100% availability of the storage infrastructure – made possible by InfiniBox and its unique triple redundancy storage architecture − has made a dramatic difference in how customers more deeply and quickly trust Enecom for information and communication technology services.  “Many of our customers are concerned that even the slightest outage will affect their business,” says Takashi Ueki of the Solution Service Department, Solution Business Division, Enecom.  “By using two InfiniBox systems in an active-active cluster configuration, we can continue to provide services with higher reliability and peace of mind without interruption, even when performing maintenance or software version upgrades.”

With cyber resilience expected to increase in importance in Japan and around the world, by leveraging InfiniSafe’s capabilities, Enecom can reduce the impact of future cyberattacks and recover very rapidly – without disruption to the business or its customers’ operations.  “InfiniBox provides high-speed, tamper-proof, immutable snapshots creation as a standard feature to enable rapid recovery from a future cyberattack.  Keeping data within Japan for data security reasons will become more important in the future.  I think that the fact that we store the data of our customers in combination with optical fiber service here in the Chugoku region, in Hiroshima, will be of great significance to our customers.  This is a key point that should get more attention in the future.  And we would like to explore the opportunity to meet our customers’ future needs with Infinidat’s InfiniSafe enterprise cyber storage resilience and recovery software,” adds Chikaraishi.

“Enecom has not only set a precedent in Japan for harnessing the capabilities of Infinidat’s enterprise storage solutions for performance, capacity, reliability, and price competitiveness, but it also demonstrates for the global service provider market the power of cyber storage resilience based on the InfiniBox platform,” says Steve Sullivan, Chief Revenue Officer, Infinidat.  “Enecom unlocks the potential of our InfiniSafe software to deliver the cyber resilience that is available with Infinidat’s next-generation data protection solutions.  This is critical for any cloud service provider or enterprise to have as part of an effective data protection strategy.”  

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