Case Study: Global 500 Pharmaceuticals Company |
Challenges
- Their F5 ARX addressed the following top storage management challenges:
- Managing storage growth
- Backup administration and management
- Managing costs
Environment
- Deployed their F5 ARX with the following file storage:
- EMC
- NetAPP
- Storage environment of 500 TBs
Benefits
- Reduced storage budget by 20% or more
- Increased storage utilization from 60% to 80%, resulting in a 33% improvement
- Reduced backup time from 72 hours to 24 hours, resulting in a 67% reduction
- Reduced data migration time by 40%
- Achieved payback period of 24 months
Testimonials
With ARX and two tiers, 80% of our inactive data is today hosted on a more cost-effective storage tier.
| Source: | TechValidate Survey of a Global 500 Pharmaceuticals Company | TVID: C6A-C6E-BD3 |
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Source Info: TechValidate Survey of a Global 500 Pharmaceuticals Company




