Case Study: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California achieves a cloud-ready, organized 40M-file (80 TB) repository with ActiveNav

How the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California came to understand and organize their unstructured data sources

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the regional wholesaler serving 19 million people, had accumulated 80 TB of file share content across more than 200 file shares and 5+ million folders over 30 years. Staff couldn’t reliably find or govern information and the District needed to understand, cleanse, and organize its unstructured data before migrating to the cloud, so they engaged ActiveNav and its file discovery and management system (ActiveNav Governance).

ActiveNav indexed more than 40 million files, applied automated ROT detection, and collaborated with 400+ stakeholders to decide what to keep, restructure folders, and prepare data for cloud migration. The work identified roughly 40% of the data as redundant, obsolete, or trivial, streamlined folder structures, enabled metadata tagging and records compliance readiness, and positioned the District for future ECM and cloud deployments — measurable outcomes delivered by ActiveNav’s combination of technology and services.

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Steve Gonzales

Information Governance and Enterprise Content Management Manager