Lobbyist Organization Adopts ePlus Storage-as-a-Service Leveraging Pure Storage Evergreen//One Subscriptions
Streamlines customer onboarding with a predictable cost model while maintaining a sharp focus on core business of driving software innovation
Business Challenges
Challenge 1
The organization was experiencing performance issues with their databases, and the database administrators were getting frustrated with long-running queries. IT management was looking for a cost-effective way to improve SQL performance and reduce latency.
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Challenge 2
Their current platform continued to experience slowness and capacity constraints. Significant manual effort was needed to keep space freed for new data. There was no way to add performance to the existing array, and purchasing a new one was outside of their budget.
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Challenge 3
Legal holds require them to keep unknown quantities of data, often for long periods of time, so predicting capacity requirements was difficult.
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Challenge 4
Administration of existing storage system was burdensome, and they were interested in an easier platform to manage and use.
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Why ePlus?
- The ePlus account team has been working with the customer for years and has a strong knowledge of their environment, including their storage infrastructure. ePlus maintains a regular cadence of communication and functions as an extension of the organization’s team.
- ePlus consistently identifies and presents business solutions that address both technical and financial requirements, helping the customer select, deploy, and support equipment to reduce burden on staff.
- The ePlus solution enabled them to avoid an unbudgeted upfront purchase and pay monthly for only what was actually consumed to cover the SQL environment. On-demand burst capacity provided the ability to add more applications as needed. ePlus first-call support was also compelling for the duration of the contract.
Solution
ePlus Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) Leveraging Pure Storage Evergreen//One
- ePlus engaged the customer to develop business and technical requirements for the deployment.
- The account team developed an extensive total cost of ownership analysis and helped project growth and consumption.
- The customer signed up for a 50 TiB STaaS contract powered by Pure Evergreen//One. The capacity was delivered and installed in a few weeks, and they were using the solution almost immediately with very little need for assistance.
Business Outcomes
- The ePlus STaaS solution allows the customer to leverage on-demand burst capacity dynamically without incurring expensive upfront costs. They implemented the platform quickly and benefit from a monthly consumption billing model that aligns better with their budget, delivering the performance and latency improvements sought.
- They found so much value in the platform flexibility that they signed up for another subscription for their disaster recovery site. This allowed native replication from their primary array and provided the same budgetary benefits along with ease of use and management.
- An unintended benefit once a second array was purchased was the simplicity and speed of their quarterly recovery testing. The exercise, which normally took several days, could now be performed in hours.
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