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END USER INSIGHT ug in st ein , St ora ge a nd Back up Team t er a g a Man z Be eq BEZEQ DISPLACES ALL-FLASH ARRAY FOR DATA WAREHOUSE INFRASTRUCTURE WITH EXCELERO NVMESH Bezeq, a leading telecommunications provider in Israel, has cut its database run times by up to 90%, boosted throughput 2x–3x after deploying simple, scalable Excelero NVMesh shared NVMe storage. Igal Muginstein, Storage and Backup Team Manager at Bezeq, tells us more. www.intelligentdatacentres.com ezeq, a leading telecommunications provider based in Israel, has deployed the Excelero NVMesh as the centrepiece of a new scale-out storage architecture behind its mission-critical data warehouse. B Replacing a high-end all-flash array with the simplicity and scale of an architecture using Excelero NVMesh along with Fujitsu servers and Mellanox 100 Gbps Ethernet switches, Bezeq has achieved a 2x–3x throughput improvement and cut database run times by up to 90%. As NVMe SSDs overtook traditional Flash SSD sales in 2019, they are expected to grow into a US$9 billion market by 2022, up from just US$2 billion in 2017 (G2M Research, December 2018). Bezeq’s results with Excelero, a disruptor in software-defined block storage, typify the advantages that NVMe over fabrics architectures deliver in superior throughput, ultra-low latency, scalability and flexibility. Bezeq offers phone and Internet services, smart devices, cybersecurity and cloud backup services. Its data warehouse holds more than 118 TB of vital data on sales, services, financial transactions, engineering device and customer interactions – data used to generate reports that help management streamline operations. The data warehouse is also supporting an expansion into promising new lines of business such as high-performance Issue 11 47