Customer Success Story : Retency

Thanks to the ease of configuration and deployment offered by Scaleway, Retency has reduced the time needed to set up its infrastructure by 70%, enabling it to speed up its operations and focus more on its core business, rather than the complex management of its infrastructure.

About the company

Retency is a French technology company that develops software for anonymizing and protecting personal data. These algorithms for processing massive databases are developed “privacy by design” and provide an unrivalled level of protection. They guarantee total confidentiality of databases and complete protection of individuals. Retency's algorithms are officially recognized by the regulator as valid throughout Europe.

Challenges

Retency faced a significant challenge in ensuring the secure and compliant management of personal data while leveraging cloud infrastructure for its Retency Privacy Engine. This software, validated by the CNIL (the French data protection authority), needed to implement Retency Privacy Engine in the cloud, where it needs a reliable, highly secure server infrastructure. This infrastructure must comply with EU regulations, ensuring that data processing remains within the European Union and is never exposed to U.S. jurisdiction, such as the Cloud Act. Retency's dedication to data security demands the highest standards, particularly as it deals with sensitive personal information. To address this, Retency chose Scaleway's security tools for their Compute instances, including features like Security Groups and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). These tools provide the necessary foundation to build a robust and secure infrastructure, ensuring that data remains protected.

Results

Thanks to the ease of setup and deployment offered by Scaleway, the company was able to reduce the time needed to implement its infrastructure by around 70%. This has allowed Retency to accelerate its operations and focus more on its core business, rather than spending time on complex infrastructure management.
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Future Plans

Today, Retency processes over 30 billion data points a month, and is looking to rapidly increase the automation linked to the Scaleway infrastructure (use of APIs and DNS functionalities in particular).