Case Study: Somerville achieves scalable, ransomware‑proof data protection and 30% TCO savings with Scality

Leading MSP scales its data protection business and achieves -30% TCO savings

Somerville, an Australian end-to-end IT service and infrastructure provider with 40 years’ experience, faced limited backend storage scalability, fragmented data silos, longer backup windows, slow customer onboarding and rising operational costs — all while needing stronger protection and restore capability against ransomware and failures. To solve this, Somerville partnered with Scality, deploying Scality RING S3 object storage delivered via HPE GreenLake on HPE Apollo 4200 servers and integrated with Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.

Scality implemented a petabyte-scale RING stretched across three sites in Sydney and Melbourne (zero RPO/RTO), with Veeam writing to the S3 endpoint and object lock enforcing a 14‑day immutability policy. The Scality solution delivered ~30% TCO savings, faster onboarding and capacity expansion (they’ve already doubled capacity), enabled recovery of 19 servers in a single weekend, reduced day‑to‑day ops to one engineer, and provided in‑country, hyperscaler‑competitive storage with strong resilience and peace of mind.

Somerville

Craig Somerville

CEO and Founder