City of Safford customer profile
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(0)Overview: If the storage goes out in the City of Stafford, there’s a whole city staff waiting for it to get back online. The City of Safford serves 10,000 residents, overseeing public works and maintenance, police, fire safety and response, utilities, recreation, and many other services. The City get calls on everything from forgotten passwords to broken printers, PCs, and mobile devices in police cruisers.
This customer profile discusses the challenges that faced the City, such as delivering more services to a growing population amid declines in tax revenues due to the economic recession.
In addition, the City‘s departments needed new technologies, even though budgets had decreased significantly. When asked, Safford’s IT department welcomed the opportunity to beta-test EMC’s new VNXe series, which delivers simple, efficient, and affordable storage, while providing application-optimized management and single-click help and support. For storage provisioning and management, Safford IT relied on EMC’s Unisphere simplified management software, which is part of the VNXe solution.
The key benefits of this successful installation include the ability to provision one terabyte of storage in 10 minutes; built-in best practices and live chat to simplify administration; automated optimization of application performance; and reduced IT spend on the overall storage infrastructure.
Learn why the City believes EMC’s VNXe is definitely the easiest storage device they’ve ever used.
