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City of Baton Rouge

The City of Baton Rouge Grows with Its Citizens

The City of Baton Rouge gains the freedom to upgrade, expand, and innovate with a modern, unified block and file storage platform from Pure Storage.

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Summary

The capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge is one of the fastest growing cities and a top 10 city for job growth. The City relies on Pure Storage for its unified block and file storage needs. This modern data storage platform also safeguards private data and continuity of city services with immutable SafeMode™ Snapshots, non-disruptive upgrades, and Veeam integration. The efficiency gains with Pure Storage enable the city to support growth and enhance citizen services.

Industry

Public Sector

GEO

North America

Use Cases

Accelerate Core Applications
Modernize Data Protection

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Challenges

As the city grew, its legacy storage fell behind in supporting the needs of the local population. Too much time was spent on maintenance and rip-and-replace upgrades, leaving precious little time for innovation. Meanwhile, the threat of ransomware demanded a stronger data protection and recovery strategy.

Results

Business Transformation

Optimizes internal operations to meet demands of rapidly growing city
Cuts storage admin time so teams can focus on enhancing citizen services
Taps into cybersecurity grant to help reduce overall costs and modernize IT

IT Transformation

Accelerates ERP backups from 19 hours to 2 hours
Reboots VMs in seconds versus minutes and eliminates forklift upgrades
Boosts ransomware resilience with immutable snapshots

“As a government entity, we don't switch technology vendors unless the use case is rock solid. It was time to evolve, and the efficiency gains that Pure Storage offers make it the perfect fit.”

City of Baton Rouge

Eric Romero, Director of IT Services