Ski firm dumps ‘motley’ storage for DataCore software-defined Eurogroup cuts power usage by 70% and rackspace from 84U to 7U as it consolidates multiple physical servers and storage protocols onto SANsymphony software-defined storage Share this item with your network: By Published: 12 Mar 2021 France-based holiday firm Eurogroup – known by its Ski France brand in the UK – has gone all-in on software-defined storage from DataCore to try to resolve challenges around business agility. In the process, it has been able to gain control over a heterogeneous storage landscape – with management from a single console – and cut usage of power and space. “Our commercial activity is very dynamic,” says Athénaïs Carlon, head of IT at Eurogroup. “As campaigns come and go, we have to create and decommission servers. That means provisioning, then freeing up, hundreds of gigabytes of storage every time.