Customer stories

Customers who chose AiRE, and what it did for them.

Research institutes, cloud providers, banks and manufacturers across Europe. Each story names the customer, the products deployed and the results they report.

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Deployments

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Each story names the customer, the sector, what was replaced and what was measured afterwards.

Software development and managed IT services · Italy
Alma Pro
90% storage reduction and 65% time saved.
How Alma Pro reduced its storage utilisation by 90 percent and saved 65% of operating time with the agility of AiRE IntelligentFiler.
- Storage used for the database copies behind testing and simulation cut by more than 90%
- IT time spent operating the system down 65% compared with traditional archiving and backup
- Five services on three workloads across two systems consolidated into one AiRE, with ransomware and virus protection by default
Source: STORViX customer story
Cooperative credit banking · Italy
Banca d'Alba
Strategic resilience: Banca d'Alba's email compliance evolution with STORViX and Archivium.
The GDPR puts strict requirements on how corporations store personal information. For a financial institution such as Banca d'Alba, compliance is not just a legal duty but a responsibility to maintain trust among clients and stakeholders. To address GDPR compliance and email management, the bank partnered with STORViX and Archivium.
- Corporate email archived in line with GDPR, with automatic deletion as the Italian Data Protection Authority recommends
- Communications from former associates preserved long term, as the Data Protection Authority requires
- Among the first Italian banks to address email management systematically under current regulations
Source: STORViX customer story
Food and beverage manufacturing · Italy
Birra Castello
Fast-track solutions for data integrity and availability.
How Birra Castello used its new AiRE IntelligentFiler right out of the box and vastly improved on its Veeam setup, with guaranteed full file system consistency.
- Up and running within a few hours of delivery, used by the IT team right out of the box
- Full source-and-target file system consistency for Veeam backup images, through AiRE's corruption immunity
- A secure off-site copy for disaster recovery through Alma Pro's managed replication
Source: STORViX customer story
Cloud services and managed security · Italy
Eteria
Ultra-fast cloud storage solution with 50% cost savings.
How Eteria ensured hot copies of its customer VMs were available 24/7 and achieved a sub-millisecond maximum latency, with the flexibility, agility and performance of AiRE and the FlexiPay programme.
- Sub-millisecond maximum latency achieved for a key customer on the all-flash 3282
- Hot copies of customer VMs available 24/7 through the Zerto integration
- Compression factor of 2 with maximum compression enabled, and at least 50% saved on the investment
Source: STORViX customer story
Higher education and research · Belgium
Ghent University
Agile storage: from terabytes to petabytes in seconds.
The Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at Ghent University needed to archive simulation data that must outlast the research, on storage its scientists could grow themselves.
- Scales from a few terabytes to petabytes in seconds, with no RAID rebuild to wait for
- Researchers provision file systems themselves, without IT expertise
- Up and running with no manual, no training and no support call
Source: STORViX customer story
Health, safety and environment consulting · Italy
Made Hse
Leveraging a unified data solution across its lifecycle.
How Made Hse achieved performance gains of more than 50% and simpler GDPR compliance with a unified data lifecycle powered by AiRE.
- Performance gain of more than 50% for VMs and CRM systems, from AiRE's AI-driven optimisation
- Compression factor of 3 to 4 on database storage, shrinking the data footprint by more than 3× without deduplication
- GDPR compliance, data retention and data classification made simpler by managing the whole data lifecycle
Source: STORViX customer story
IT management consulting · Germany
Noventum Consulting
From minutes to seconds for Noventum Consulting.
How AiRE improved Noventum's virtual machine failover from minutes to seconds and made provisioning a piece of cake.
- Virtual machine moves between Hyper-V servers cut from minutes to seconds
- Multi-tenant storage provisioned accurately without the time cost, through full multi-tenancy and elastic provisioning
- Configured for full production use in under an hour after a six-month trial
Source: STORViX customer story
Scientific research and museums · Belgium
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Secure VMs and faster backups with a 15-minute RPO.
How the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) secured all its IT services by integrating AiRE with Proxmox, and turned a slow backup situation around by bringing its recovery point objective down to 15 minutes.
- Recovery point objective brought down to 15 minutes
- Every IT server runs as a Proxmox virtual machine on AiRE, keeping the institute's services secure and available
- A third AiRE system ordered after the first year to add archiving capacity
Source: STORViX customer story
IT and telecom services · Sweden
WE2U
Nightly backups ten times faster, on a VMware cluster that could finally grow.
A Swedish IT and telecom services provider replaced ageing legacy storage with an AiRE 3122 as primary storage for a new VMware cluster.
- Nightly backups 10× faster than the previous legacy solution
- 3× compression factor, cutting capacity utilisation
- Up to 60% lower monthly cost
Source: STORViX customer story
Managed services and private cloud · Sweden
Xpeedio
Xpeedio optimises mixed workloads with AiRE's flexibility.
A seamless migration from a legacy unit to a next-generation unified data platform, AiRE.
- Mixed workloads optimised automatically, data set by data set, with custom profiles and policies
- Less time on administrative tasks, so the team focuses on value-added work
- Always-on self-healing and point-in-time snapshots protecting a GDPR-compliant private cloud
Source: STORViX customer story

In their words

Seven years without a compromising failure.

“Superior robustness and high flexibility. After having used the STORViX storage solution for 7 years, we can testify to not having had a single software failure that would have compromised our operational systems in any impactful way.”

Sam Kauranne, ICT Manager, The Institute of Natural Sciences (INS)Source: STORViX website

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The results on these pages are the customers’ own, as published by STORViX. They describe specific estates, workloads and starting points, and a comparable configuration in your environment should be sized from a proof of concept against your data rather than read off from a story.

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