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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

Case Study Details

Status:	Validated
Validated On:	Sep 08, 2009
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