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It avoidedjust US$140,000 five years inago.” SAN costs, will a annNimbleuall ystorage to man areaage inetworkt,” Cuoc c(SAN),i says .a premium-priced storage solution that delivers exceptionally fast eliminate $50,000 a year in paper storage fees, and gained endless storage scalability and access• Save speeds.$50,000 However, a year o nCuocci offsit edidn’t stora wantge fee tos . wasteWhen hisall high-pricedof its docum Nimbleents a restorage digitiz eond, archives.MulvannyG2 georeplicated disaster recovery. will also realize an annual savings of more than $50,000 for third-party archival fees. Business Outcomes Ray Chan Softchoice• Extend the li fSolutione of existing SAN. Additionally, Cuocci estimates that the firm will extend the life of Vice President of Information technology its existing Nimble SAN by at least two years by not using it for archive storage. Client Profile: San Diego Padres MulvannyG2 Architecture is the third-largest For Cuocci, the choice was clear: buy cheaper on-site storage or move to a cloud solution. “The problem with Scoring• Gain e ndbig:les sA s tmodern,orage scala cloud-basedbility. “Our arch iworkforceval storage i sdelivers ever grow resultsing, and using Windows Azure retail architect in the world and among the 50 a fcloudor st orsolutionage al lwasevia tthates w weor rhadies abnoo wayut con tos indextant e thexpan storedsion, ”data Cuo socc i thatsay semployees. “The Sto rcouldSimp lfinde so luit,”ti onCuocci largest architecture firms worldwide (BD World Assays. gtheiv eHe sPadres u turneds the continue stoca lSoftchoice,abil ittoy wdevelope an eelongtimed their.” youngIT solution talent provider and build and technologytowards a Championshipadvisor, for help. on Softchoice the field, had Architecture, 2012). It designs retail, office, thejust IT learned department from Microsofthas hit a aboutfew home the StorSimple runs already. family of cloud-integrated storage solutions. StorSimple is an mixed-use, and hospitality facilities for global • Achieve better disaster recovery. When MulvannyG2 uses the StorSimple solution for disaster on-premises enterprise SAN that interoperates with Windows Azure to provide hybrid cloud storage for primary, clients, including five of 2012’s top 20 Fortune recovery, it will gain geographically distinct data protection and no longer worry about physical Officebackup, 365 archival, is giving and users disaster essential recovery capabilities needs. to get their work done, no matter where they are in 500 retailers. 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all modern businesses seek. Which is exactly what Chan’s team needs to win. “Our employees don’t know or care whether the document is stored on the on-premises StorSimple device “Weor in might the Windows not be theAzure biggest cloud,” IT Cuocciteam insays. the “StorSimpleleague, but manageswe can dothat. so Newformamuch more has thanks very powerfulto Softchoice, search thecapabilities Office 365 that technology, make finding and documentsKeystone,” super said Chan.easy.” “We are so much more swift and nimble than we could have ever been just five years ago.”

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