Case Study: Swisscom achieves scalable, cost-effective third-generation cloud services with Dell EMC ScaleIO

Taking cloud services to a new level with EMC ScaleIO

Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecom and IT services provider, faced a demanding “third‑generation” cloud initiative requiring software‑defined, hardware‑agnostic storage to handle high I/O, big‑data analytics and easy workload mobility on commodity servers. To meet these needs it selected ScaleIO from Dell EMC as the software‑only converged storage solution.

Dell EMC implemented ScaleIO to deliver hypervisor‑agnostic, REST‑API‑driven storage that ran at hardware speed with virtually no overhead; POC testing showed ScaleIO covered 100% of Swisscom’s use cases versus 50–70% for alternatives. The deployment enables Swisscom to migrate up to 70% of its workloads to the cloud, target ~10% better infrastructure utilization, and significantly lower CAPEX/OPEX and cost per gigabyte—validating Dell EMC’s role as the strategic storage partner.

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Torsten Boettjer

Head of Technology Strategy Cloud