SANTA
CLARA, Calif., March 26,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE:
PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data
storage technologies and services, announced that Motion Picture
Industry Pension and Health Plans (MPI), a nonprofit organization
that administers health and retirement benefits to the film
industry, modernized its IT environment with Pure Storage to drive
higher performance, greater efficiency, and business growth.
Customer Challenge:
Over 60,000 set designers, animators, and numerous other motion
picture production workers across 30 film industry unions and
guilds rely on MPI for their health and retirement benefits.
Serving as a custodian for trust funds between industry unions and
employers, MPI is dedicated to ensuring the welfare of
participants, which includes robust measures to safeguard their
personal data.
Faced with aging legacy systems and an escalating ransomware
threat, MPI underwent a comprehensive overhaul of its IT operations
to prioritize speed, scalability, and data protection.
Customer Impact:
MPI replaced its legacy systems with Pure Storage to achieve
these goals, while also enhancing overall performance, efficiency,
and recovery time. This transformation enables seamless support for
a wide spectrum of tasks, ranging from pension payments to health
eligibility and claims, reinforcing MPI's commitment to providing
reliable and secure services for its participants. Benefits
include:
- Reduction in Data Center Footprint and Energy
Costs: Always-on deduplication and compression make the
most of MPI's storage capacity despite continuous replication and
multiple copies of MPI's environment. A 13:1 compression rate and a
resulting 95% reduction in storage racks - from 44 rack units to
two - significantly reduced power and cooling costs and MPI's
overall data center footprint.
- Efficient Backup and Faster Time to Recovery: MPI
replaced all its tape archives with FlashBlade//S for rapid backups
and near-instant data recovery. MPI calculated time-to-restore from
a complete ransomware loss to be less than two days with
FlashBlade, compared to more than 18 days trying to recover from
tape. Ultimately, FlashBlade has proven to be 10 times faster than
MPI's previous system.
- Enhanced System Performance and Scalability: MPI's
IT team supports its employees with their daily technology needs,
ranging from a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to databases to
application development. Performance and scalability to meet
growing data volumes was a key factor in MPI's purchasing decision
of Pure Storage. Approximately 1,200 virtual machines, more than
200 VMware Horizon virtual desktops, and Microsoft SQL database
workloads run on Pure Storage FlashArray.
Executive Insight:
"Embracing Pure Storage's all-flash portfolio over legacy tape
was a strategic slam dunk for our organization. It goes beyond a
mere transaction; it's a genuine partnership that has not only
elevated our performance but also ensured the longevity of our
critical IT systems. Pure Storage has become an integral part of
our success story, providing a robust foundation that aligns with
our goals for the long haul" – Andy
Marosi, Sr. Manager, Infrastructure & Operations,
MPI
Learn More:
- Case Study: Setting the Stage for Modern Business
Operations
About Pure Storage
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store, manage, and protect the world's data. With a cloud
experience across a unified storage operating environment, Pure
Storage empowers every organization with the agility to meet
evolving data requirements at speed and scale, while reducing total
cost of ownership. Pure believes it can make a meaningful impact in
reducing data center emissions worldwide by providing a storage
platform that enables customers to significantly reduce their
carbon and energy footprint. Pure is proud to be a customer-first
organization, as evidenced by the highest Net Promoter Score in the
industry. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
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