Case Study: Tiscali achieves hybrid cloud transformation and scalable, secure B2B services with NetApp

How Tiscali Reinvented Itself as a Cloud Service Provider and Opened Up New Market Opportunities

Tiscali, an independent Italian telecommunications operator, reinvented itself to capture growing B2B cloud demand. Faced with the need to move quickly from managed services to a cloud-provider model, the company needed to ensure low-latency performance, meet strict European data‑protection and residency requirements, and retain control over customer data while avoiding vendor lock‑in.

Tiscali built a hybrid private cloud on NetApp clustered Data ONTAP—deploying FAS clustered systems, EF all‑flash arrays, SnapMirror replication, secure storage virtual machines, deduplication, FlexClone and automated data‑protection tools—to enable nondisruptive scaling and fast DR. The result: 99.999% availability, customer RPOs cut to under one hour and end‑to‑end DR in <30 days, a 300% performance gain for mobile billing, 70–90% less stored data through dedupe, 50% less rack space and 60% lower power use, and the ability to manage 1.5PB with far fewer staff while winning new business.

Tiscali

Andrea Stefano Sardu

Storage Infrastructure Manager