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Our city is like any other, we are a bustling business. We have 400,000 city residents in New Orleans. We service the 5000 city employees that does include our police, fire, and emergency medical services. Many agencies across the state of Louisiana were falling victim to cyber attacks.
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It started in our educational system in small courts to the state of Louisiana, and we were next. That cyber attack happened on December 13, 2019. Our mayor made it very clear that our work could not stop and city services could not stop even under a cyber attack. The first investment that we made after that cyber attack was in pure storage within 24
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hours it was the number one thing that we did. We were back up and running much quicker than we expected. We had a storage solution that allowed us to begin moving. We knew was safe data into a production environment as soon as we possibly could and two years later we had another hurricane and a fire in our data center that took our primary
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data center offline we brought them back online so what could have taken weeks took about 72 hours. Our team really felt like we had made the right decision. We had the right solution, and it just kind of built our confidence in the platform. Even since then we have a lot more storage and we're paying about 40% less for it.
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What we're spending on storage we've reduced that cost. We've reduced our infrastructure refresh cycles and we've saved money. The vision is always about delivering value, bringing value to the city. So an evergreen solution is something that plays right into a methodology and a way of thinking about our technology infrastructure.
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Your storage makes us look really good.
