Case Study: Com Hem achieves resilient, zero‑downtime media storage and lower TCO with Scality RING

Com Hem switched to Scality RING to keep their growing VoD business competitive

Com Hem, a Swedish triple‑play provider serving roughly 40% of households, faced an urgent need to replace legacy storage after an outage and poor vendor support. Their priorities were zero downtime, zero data loss, higher resiliency and lower total cost of ownership, so they evaluated and selected Scality and its Scality RING software‑defined storage.

Scality deployed Scality RING in a geo‑distributed configuration across three sites (running on 15 HPE Apollo 4200 servers) with erasure coding, NFS/CIFS/CDMI interfaces and integrations such as AWS Elemental. The solution delivered self‑healing resiliency and ensured content availability for Com Hem’s video services, produced a “huge reduction in cost per terabyte,” enabled flexible hardware/support choices, and has scaled via expanded footprint since the initial 2016 deployment — demonstrating measurable TCO savings and improved operational confidence.

Com Hem

Jacob Morgan

Head of Datacenter