LCCOC with NetApp Solution
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The Lee County Clerk of Courts upgraded its data-storage operations using NetApp technology to manage growing digital records and control rising costs. The switch resulted in a 46% return on investment over three years, avoiding $700k in capital costs and $150k in staffing costs while achieving faster backups and improved data management. Overall, the agency expects to realize $1.0 million in total benefits from the NetApp solution.
LCCOC with NetApp Solution
- 1. Net BenefitsProductivity SavingsAlternative Solution Cost Avoidance Total Investment -$1,000K -$800K -$600K -$400K -$200K 0 $200K $400K $600K -$690K $700K $321K $331K Mainstay Partners, LLC · 901 Mariners Island Blvd., Suite 105, San Mateo, CA 94404 · 650-638-0575 · www.mainstaypartners.net Research and analysis was conducted by Mainstay Partners, the leading provider of IT value assessments to Enterprise IT Organizations and High Tech Solution Providers. Mainstay does not warrant any results derived from this study. Headquarters: Ft. Myers, Florida Web site: www.leeclerk.org Industry: Government Employees: 400 HIGHLIGHTS Goal: Lee County Clerk of Courts wanted to upgrade its data-storage operations to manage a growing volume of digital records and control rising administration costs. Solutions: • NetApp® FAS3020 and 3070 series storage with NetApp MetroCluster® , SnapMirror® , SnapRestore® , SynchMirror® , FlexClone® , and FlexVol® • SnapManager® for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Results: • 46% ROI over 3 years • Avoided $700K in capital costs • Avoided IT staffing costs of $150K • Gained $170K in productivity boost LEE COUNTY CLERK OF COURTS STREAMLINES DATA STORAGE, SAFEGUARDS RECORDS WITH NETAPP SOLUTION “NetApp plays a critical role in ensuring fast and reliable information backups, while maintaining maximum security and availability of our records.” Doris Maitland, IT Director THE CHALLENGE Government agencies everywhere are facing enormous challenges as they confront the demands of the digital age, including an explosion in information systems and assets. • Lee County Clerk of Courts (LCCOC) was experiencing rising data storage and management needs, with its volume of digital records growing 400 gigabytes month. • Backing up the agency’s 21 terabyte data repository was an extremely slow process, taking nearly seven days to complete. • The legacy system lacked seamless failover capabilities, raising the risk of service interruptions. THE NETAPP SOLUTION LCCOC made the switch to NetApp in mid-2007, enlisting NetApp Professional Services to migrate the data from the legacy system in just two weekends. The new NetApp platform is exceeding the agency’s expectations, with LCCOC achieving 84% faster backups while spending 70% time administering storage systems. The move to NetApp also provided LCCOC with the seamless failover capability it needed to instantly recover from a server or storage outage. Meanwhile, NetApp’s space-optimization technology is helping the agency cope with rising volumes of data, with the FlexVol tool enabling administrators to rapidly create flexibly sized LUNs and volumes across a large pool of disks. Over three years, LCCOC is expected to realize $1.0M in total benefits from NetApp. 10 60 NetApp Environment Legacy Environment Email Recovery Time (Minutes) Summary ROI 46% Net Benefits $331K Payback Period > 1 year 27 163 NetApp Environment Legacy Environment Average Backup Time (Hours) 25% 95% NetApp Environment Legacy Environment % of Storage Administration Time