Santa Clara, CA – April 2, 2024 — Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technologies and services, announced that the City of Bloomington, located in the heart of Central Illinois, is leveraging Pure Storage’s platform to drive financial flexibility, on-demand scale, and sustainability, while improving citizen services in the digital age.
Customer Challenge:
Home to approximately 80,000 citizens, the City of Bloomington is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country and boasts a robust economy, resulting from a diverse mix of sectors - from manufacturing and medicine to education and entertainment, among others.
Due to fiscal challenges in the past, the city was forced to make strategic cutbacks that affected critical infrastructure investments, including data storage systems. Over the course of a decade, the combination of expired storage system support contracts and makeshift solutions, like jump drives and low-cost arrays, added significant complexity to the city’s IT management and maintenance efforts.
The growing volume of public safety data, however, prompted a shift back to IT modernisation leveraging Pure Storage’s reliable, efficient, and secure data storage platform.
Customer Impact:
Pure Storage, consumed via an Evergreen//Flex™subscription, provides financial flexibility, simplicity, and performance to support the City of Bloomington’s delivery of critical citizen services. Benefits include:
- Reduced Data Centre Footprint: Pure Storage helps the City of Bloomington efficiently manage data growth to serve citizens in the digital age, without the added footprint. With Pure Storage, the City’s storage went from 48U to 7U in the data centre, representing an 85% reduction. As a result, the City’s IT team gains greater efficiency to focus on other critical initiatives, including creating data retention policies and contributing to regional efforts to bolster the local economy through innovation.
- Flexible, Grow-as-you-Go Data Storage: Leveraging Pure Storage FlashArray™via an Evergreen//Flex subscription gives the City of Bloomington the flexibility to pay only for the amount of storage used, with the advantages of on-premises storage ownership. The City now has ongoing access to the latest hardware, monitored and managed 24/7 by Pure Storage. At the same time, the City now has full visibility into its storage environment via the Pure1® AIOps management console.
- Faster Access to Critical Data: Public safety, including the increasing use of police body cameras, was driving exponential data growth for the City of Bloomington. However, with public safety videos residing on Pure Storage FlashArray, which is optimised for capacity, the City gains faster access to this critical safety data for its citizens. FlashArray also serves as the backup repository for Veeam, which the City uses together with SafeMode™ Snapshots for fast recovery in the event of a cyber (or physical) incident.
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