"We can add disk space and just keep going. The users will never know. We have plenty of room to grow with our Dell Compellent SAN."
- Dustin R. Hurshman, IT Analyst III, City of Thousand Oaks
Challenge
With ever-increasing demands to support new applications and services, the City of Thousand Oaks, California, needed to move away from direct-attached storage and implement a centralized storage area network (SAN).
Solution
The city centralized storage on a Dell™ Compellent™ Storage Center SAN, part of the Dell Fluid Data™ architecture, improving performance and service availability while simplifying storage management.
Benefits
- Zero downtime for Dell Compellent SAN since deployment
- Eightfold faster data recovery
- 86% less storage management time required (30 minutes/week vs.3.5 hours/week)
- Up to $5,000 annual savings on high performance disk with automated tiered storage
- 30% improvement in storage utilization with thin provisioning
