Customer Stories
City of Davenport

Embracing Future Readiness for IT and City Services

The City of Davenport left disk storage behind a decade ago, better serving citizens via a modern infrastructure with enhanced performance, efficiency, and data protection powered by Pure Storage.

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Summary

Serving citizens in eastern Iowa, the City of Davenport takes pride in its service excellence and proactivity. Its IT environment keeps 13 departments running smoothly and protects city services from disruption and data loss. The city relies on Pure Storage for high performance in everything from its virtual desktop infrastructure and ERP to police forensics and recovery from cyberattack. Pure Storage also helped create a more sustainable IT environment, cutting power costs and space usage.

Industry

State and Local Government

GEO

North America

Use Cases

Accelerate Core Applications
Enable Multi-cloud
Modernise Data Protection

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Challenges

As the City of Davenport operations became increasingly digital, legacy storage could no longer meet performance and capacity demands. Upgrades and fixes took weeks of planning and days of downtime. When increasing concerns about cyberattacks prompted IT to reset its recovery time objective, a new storage solution was needed.

Results

Business Transformation

Supports continuous 24/7/365 service and rapid disaster recovery
Reduces costs and improves sustainability for the city
Positions city as nimble, future ready, and focused on excellence

IT Transformation

Accelerates workloads in a footprint < 10% the size of previous disk storage
Reduces recovery time objective from two weeks to just one hour
Eliminates downtime for upgrades and cuts planning to 30 minutes

“As we enhance city services and need to mature our storage capabilities, Pure is already there and ready with the next innovation. It’s refreshing to have a partner always evolving its technology, giving us long-term value.”

Cory Smith

CIO, City of Davenport

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