The Agency for Digital Italy adopted a Syneto Unified Storage solution to improve data sharing, virtualise its server farm and ensure fast, consistent backups and recoveries.
The Agency for Digital Italy, established by legislative decree no. 83 and converted into Law no. 134/2012, acts as an aggregator for digital skills previously distributed across different public entities. It coordinates innovation policy and drives the digitisation and modernisation of the Italian public administration, implementing the Digital Agenda for Europe across services such as gov.it websites, digital signature certification, certified email, the Public Connectivity System and the national PA Data Centre.
As the body responsible for introducing the latest technologies to the Italian public administration, the Agency itself needed a modern storage infrastructure with fast access to data. Instead, its environment was complicated and dispersed: data lived on independent, small hardware that was not properly interconnected, which slowed data access and prevented the distribution of important information. A decentralised server farm, with many different servers on separate hardware platforms, drove steadily growing maintenance, manpower, space and power costs. Disaster Recovery was inconsistent, because manual backups were performed on independent resources that could never be centralised — making recovery chancy and causing frequent work interruptions.
The Agency adopted a Syneto Unified Storage with a total of 8 TB, consolidating all data — from files to applications — onto a single, properly interconnected platform. The Storage OS, built on the ZFS filesystem, brought together virtualisation, automatic backups and fast network access in one system.
A smart VMware integration converted the costly server farm into virtual machines, importing the entire list of vServers in seconds. Syneto Storage holds, backs up and allocates all virtual machine data as a shared resource.
Incremental, automatic scheduled backups protect all data with almost no downtime and minimal maintenance. The ZFS filesystem lets the Agency reclaim data from any point in time in minutes, further optimised with Windows Previous Versions support.
LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) and Fibre Channel support transparently aggregate multiple network cards, guaranteeing the data access speeds needed to serve the Agency's large user base.
Active Directory integration ties the consolidated storage into the Agency's existing identity environment, keeping shared data accessible to authorised users across the organisation.
Syneto Unified Storage 8 TB · VMware integration · Active Directory integration · Automatic Backups · LACP functionality · Fibre Channel protocol.
With everything consolidated on a single Syneto Unified Storage, the Agency now runs a modern, efficient and protected platform: servers virtualised, data shared at speed, and one of the smartest Disaster Recovery implementations possible.
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