City of Bloomington Modernizes for the Data Age

When growing volumes of public safety data shifted the priority to IT modernization, the City of Bloomington chose a Pure Storage® Evergreen//Flex™ subscription for financial flexibility, stability, and performance.

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Summary

In the heart of Central Illinois, the City of Bloomington boasts a diverse economy and a highly productive agricultural community. A new data governance initiative spurred a major IT modernization effort to better manage the City's growing data load. Public safety in particular generated increasingly large data sets through the use of body cameras. With a goal of scalability to match data growth, the IT team selected Pure Storage FlashArrays on an Evergreen//Flex subscription, paying only for storage used.

Industry

State and Local Government

GEO

North America

Use Cases

Accelerate Core Applications
Modernize Data Protection

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Challenges

Fiscal challenges for the city resulted in strategic cutbacks and deferred maintenance. Meanwhile, exponential growth from police body cameras taxed the legacy storage infrastructure. It became increasingly difficult to use and manage the City's disparate and aging storage systems. The City needed a way to scale its own storage quickly while paying only for what it used.

Results

Business Transformation

85% reduction in storage footprint, cutting data center costs
Delivers on-demand scalability and financial flexibility for city budget
Gives the City a modern infrastructure to serve citizens in the digital age

IT Transformation

Speeds access to time-critical data for public safety and other departments
Lowers upfront capital costs while maintaining ever-modern storage
Standardized on a single storage platform, simplifying administration

“Pure Storage stands above the rest in terms of flexibility, simplicity, performance, and support. It felt like we were able to press the ‘easy button’ and Pure made everything better.”

Craig McBeath

Director of Information Technology, City of Bloomington