City of Bloomington,
IL optimizes citizen services without compromising cost or
sustainability using Pure Storage
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., April 2,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 modernization 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 Center 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 center, 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 optimized 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.
Executive Insight:
"Pure Storage has revolutionized our approach to IT with
unparalleled flexibility, simplicity, and performance across our
data storage environment. It's like pressing the 'easy button,'
making everything better. With Pure Storage, we now carry the
confidence of constant vigilance, providing significant peace of
mind, while gaining the ability to effectively deliver and scale
superior citizen services." – Craig
McBeath, Director of IT, City of
Bloomington
Learn More:
- Case Study: City of Bloomington Modernizes for the Data
Age
About Pure Storage
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delivers the industry's best platform to store, manage, and protect
the world's data. With a cloud experience across a unified storage
operating environment, Pure Storage empowers every organization
with the agility to meet evolving data requirements at speed and
scale, while reducing total cost of ownership. Pure believes it can
make a meaningful impact in reducing data center emissions
worldwide by providing a storage platform that enables customers to
significantly reduce their carbon and energy footprint. Pure is
proud to be a customer-first organization, as evidenced by the
highest Net Promoter Score in the industry. For more information,
visit www.purestorage.com.
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