Fondimpresa — Lower maintenance and cost, faster data with Fibre Channel and safer backups on Syneto Storage.
A leading Italian inter-professional training fund replaced a slow, labour-intensive tape infrastructure with Syneto Office Storage, cutting management time by up to 90%, removing data-access bottlenecks with 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel and securing its data with fast incremental backups.
Companies
5,000+
Partners
250+
CSAT
98%
Data lost
0 bytes
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Background02
Chapter 01 · Background
A national training fund held back by ageing tape.
Fondimpresa is an inter-professional fund for continuous education — an efficient and innovative system that covers the cost of training personnel according to each member company's professional requirements. Student accounts let individual users start tailored training activities at any time, while system accounts help businesses find the resources, partners and assistance they need.
129,000+
Member companies
4M+
Workers covered
2M+
People trained since 2007
98%
Members in the SMB sector
More than 129,000 companies — ranging from SMBs to large enterprises across a wide range of industries and employing over 4 million workers — have already joined Fondimpresa. Since the fund's inception in 2007, over 2 million people have been trained, many of them in SMBs where continuous education fosters healthy competition and innovation. Memberships are steadily growing, with 98% of members belonging to the strong SMB sector.
Ageing tape backup
Tape backups were cumbersome and expensive — labour-intensive, requiring downtime and constant IT involvement, and degrading over time.
Poor scalability
Faced with constant data growth, the tape system could not deliver the scalability modern standards demand.
Disruptive access speed
A slow standard network and a tape medium up to 20 times slower than modern enterprise storage created severe data-access delays.
Uncertain recovery
The fund struggled to recover backups quickly — an essential safeguard for preserving operations when something goes wrong.
Tape storage is very labour-intensive because you have to personally get in there and get a backup started, and it takes a lot of time to do it. Another problem with tape is that you can hit capacity while still actually having free space. How? Well, all that free space is dispersed across dozens of different tapes.Dan Vatca, CTO at Syneto
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The Syneto approach03
Chapter 02 · The Syneto approach
Syneto Office Storage: unified, fast and low-maintenance.
Fondimpresa adopted a Syneto Office Storage 4TB solution, casting off the shackles of labour-intensive tape. Built on the Storage OS, the system addressed every pain point at once: it slashed management overhead, accelerated data access with Fibre Channel and made backups fast, automatic and reliably recoverable.
Servers
production data
Fibre Channel
8 Gb/s
3rd-party backup software
existing tooling
Syneto Office Storage 4TB
Storage OS · ZFS
Backups
fast incremental
8 Gb/s
consolidate
incremental
Servers reach Syneto Office Storage over 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel through the existing backup software; the Storage OS ZFS filesystem stores fast incremental backups.
Cutting-edge unified storage
The Storage OS-powered system replaced tape, reducing management time by up to 90% thanks to easy configuration and broad automation.
Fibre Channel at 8 Gb/s
The Fibre Channel protocol on Storage OS connects to the third-party backup software, with 8 Gb/s speed virtually eliminating data-access bottlenecks.
Fast incremental backups
The Storage OS ZFS filesystem makes backups complete in minutes; after the first save, subsequent incremental backups take next to nothing, with a virtually limitless number possible.
Storage efficiency for lower TCO
Data Compression, Deduplication and Thin Provisioning drive unprecedented productivity and reduce Fondimpresa's total cost of ownership.
Hands-off, scheduled protection
The entire Backup & Recovery feature on Storage OS can be scheduled automatically at the user's discretion — so backups and restores run transparently and only the bare minimum of management is required.
Syneto Office Storage 4TB on Storage OS — the unified platform that replaces labour-intensive tape.
Fibre Channel connectivity at 8 Gb/s — links the storage to the existing third-party backup software.
The deployed solution comprised Syneto Office Storage 4TB, Syneto Backup & Recovery and Fibre Channel connectivity, with the storage feeding backups from the servers through the fund's existing third-party backup software.
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Results04
Chapter 03 · Results
Less maintenance, faster data and dependable safety.
With its data safe and its infrastructure modernised, Fondimpresa achieved unprecedented total cost of ownership and reliability. The move off tape removed cost, manual labour and uncertainty in one step — letting the IT team focus on the more than 129,000 companies that depend on the fund.
up to 90%
Less management time
8 Gb/s
Fibre Channel data access
minutes
To complete a backup
Labour-intensive tape replaced by Syneto Office Storage 4TB, cutting management time by up to 90%.
Data-access bottlenecks virtually eliminated with 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel on Storage OS.
Fast incremental backups complete in minutes, with a virtually limitless number and easy, accessible recovery.
Lower TCO delivered through Data Compression, Deduplication and Thin Provisioning, plus automatic scheduling.
Tape storage is very labour-intensive because you have to personally get in there and get a backup started, and it takes a lot of time to do it. Another problem with tape is that you can hit capacity while still actually having free space — all that free space is dispersed across dozens of different tapes.Dan Vatca, CTO at Syneto
The combination of a unified storage platform, high-speed Fibre Channel access and automated, incremental Backup & Recovery freed the fund from the cost, labour and uncertainty of tape — leaving Fondimpresa with a modern, scalable foundation for its continued data growth.
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Support & contact05
Chapter 04 · Support & contact
About Syneto & next steps.
Syneto designs and manufactures the complete Hybrid Cloud Ecosystem — hypervisor, data management, data protection and disaster recovery in a single plug & play platform. Founded in 2008, headquartered in Brescia and Timișoara, serving 5,000+ European businesses.
5,000+
Companies served
250+
Channel partners
18+
Years building HCI
$0
Ransom ever paid
European engineering
Designed, built and supported in Europe. ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certified operations.
Plug & play deployment
Production-ready in under 30 minutes. No multi-vendor integration, no professional services required.
Single-vendor support
One contract, one phone number, one SLA — for the entire stack. Local language support.
Zero ransom paid
Across 18+ years of customer deployments, no Syneto customer has ever paid ransom following a cyber incident.
Single-vendor support — one contract, one phone number, one SLA for the entire stack. Three response tiers, all delivered by Syneto engineers in your language.
Inter-professional training fund serving 129,000+ companies. Covers the ageing tape backup problem, the Syneto Office Storage 4TB solution with Fibre Channel and Backup & Recovery, and the maintenance, performance and data-safety outcomes.
