Grow Financial Federal Credit Union
Grow Financial streamlined storage management and maintenance with a Dell Compellent SAN, and upgraded systems to include Dell PowerEdge and Dell KACE solutions.
Date
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1/1/2012
We had reached capacity on our SANs and needed to do a forklift upgrade.
James Stock, Assistant Vice President of Network Services, Grow Financial Federal Credit Union, United States
Challenge
Grow Financial Federal Credit Union was spending too much on maintenance for a legacy storage array that was difficult to manage and expensive to upgrade.Solution
The credit union deployed Dell™ Compellent Storage Center SANs with Dell Fluid Data™ technology. The longtime Dell customer also recently upgraded its Dell PowerEdge™ servers and deployed virtual Dell KACE™ appliances to manage a stable of Dell Vostro™, Dell Dimension™, Dell OptiPlex™, Dell Inspiron™ and Dell Latitude™ client computers dispersed across 19 locations.Benefits
• 9 months to achieve payback on Dell Compellent SANs• 2-fold improvement in storage utilization through thin provisioning
• 50 percent reduction in maintenance costs vs. legacy SAN
• Avoided hiring additional full-time employee by using Dell KACE appliance
