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NCMEC Helps Protect Kids with Fast, Secure Storage

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) works to keep children safe by using data housed on Pure Storage FlashBlade.

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Summary

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) works to keep children safe by analyzing millions of files every day. Pure Storage FlashBlade® keeps sensitive data secure while improving performance to help analysts complete investigations faster.

Industry

Non-profit

GEO

North America

Use Cases

Activate Real-Time Analytics
Modernize Data Protection

Website

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Results

When a child is potentially in danger, NCMEC needs to find them as quickly as possible. Every delay—from slow-loading files to a system failure—increases the time until NCMEC can help get a child to safety.

Business Transformation

Manages nearly 22 million annual reports of potential child exploitation with over 65 million photo, video, and audio files uploaded to the system
Accelerates investigations, helping provide support to children and families faster

IT Transformation

Loads files to investigate reports faster
Adds encryption and disaster recovery capabilities to keep sensitive data secure
Installed new storage in half a day with minimal effort
IT team spends far less time responding to application issues

“With Pure we were able to check all of the boxes - increase our storage capacity while also encrypting our data at rest and adding disaster recovery capabilities – all to make sure that our analysts had the tools they needed to help keep kids safe.”

Russ Johnson

Executive Director of the Technology Division, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

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