Customer Stories
TownNews

Mississippi DOR converged infrastructure

TownNews Delivers Timely Content to Support Local Media

TownNews helps thousands of local news organizations find audiences in the digital age by using Pure Storage FlashBlade to help deliver billions of articles, images, and videos.

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Summary

TownNews manages tens of billions of articles, photos, and videos for thousands of customers. Pure Storage FlashBlade provides a unified fast file and object platform that speeds up read-write times, improves reporting times, and allows TownNews to serve up the news faster for local media organizations.

Industry

Media & Entertainment

GEO

North America

Use Cases

Pure Storage® FlashBlade™
Power Artificial Intelligence

Website

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Challenges

With Pure Storage FlashBlade, TownNews has the performance that it needs to support growing storage capacities and deliver billions of pieces of news to local new organizations.

Results

Business Transformation

Positions TownNews as a leader in the fast-changing media industry
Helps local news outlets grow their readership through powerful data insights
Allows IT to drive innovation rather than managing storage

IT Transformation

Monthly storage usage reports run in 30 minutes instead of 45 days
45% data reduction means a smaller footprint and lower overhead costs
Migration completed in 30 days instead of the expected 10 months

"I was impressed by how simple Pure is to manage. It’s a quiet powerhouse in the back of the room that does exactly what it is supposed to.”

CHRIS MURLEY

DIRECTOR OF NETWORK OPERATIONS

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