A leading telecom company had major challenges in managing its storage growth and backup. Data was growing at an uncontrollable pace. The cost of storage had already overshot the budget.

We introduced a new tiered storage strategy by storing only the most current and business-critical data on new high-performance storage and moving the mediocre data to the older low-performance storage. We then implemented an archival solution to move the older data onto tapes. 

The result was that

• The growing cost of storage was immediately reigned in.
• The response time to applications increased instantly by almost 30%.
• The backup window shrunk to less than 30% of the original.
• Nothing in the existing infrastructure had to be scrapped which meant investment protection for the customer.

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