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Case Study: Medium Enterprise Architecture Firm

Challenges

Their F5 ARX addressed the following top storage management challenges:
- Managing storage growth
- Backup administration and management
- Managing costs
- Storage provisioning

Environment

Deployed their F5 ARX with the following file storage:
- Data Domain
- NetApp
- Microsoft Windows
Storage environment of 105 TBs

Benefits

Reduced storage budget by 50% or more
Reduced backup time from 72 hours to 8 hours, resulting in 89% reduction
Reduced storage administration time by 80%
Reduced data migration time by 80%
Achieved payback immediately

Testimonials

“We utilised the ARX to establish a tiered storage architecture primarily to segregate less active data and apply different a different backup strategy. This reduced backup administration and costs significantly. Additionally we were able to place active data on high-performance disk and less active data on high-capacity disk.”

Source:

TechValidate Survey of a Medium Enterprise Architecture Firm

TVID: 072-8FA-2FE

Case Study Details

Status:	Validated
Validated On:	Sep 08, 2009
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