Case Study: Fortune 100 Financial Services Firm achieves 80% TCO reduction and consolidates storage across thousands of branches with CTERA Networks

Fortune 100 Modernizes IT Infrastructure in Thousands of Locations with CTERA

A Fortune 100 financial services firm with thousands of small, customer-facing branches across the U.S. faced failing Windows file servers, no off-site backups or centralized backup monitoring, and high support costs with no IT staff on-site. The company needed a secure, centrally managed storage solution that preserved fast local access, provided disaster recovery to a private cloud, and could scale to tens of thousands of users at a reasonable cost.

The firm deployed CTERA C200 cloud storage gateway appliances at every branch, presenting as regular CIFS file servers while locally caching data (RAID-1) and backing up centrally to a private cloud. Centralized management via the CTERA Portal enabled real-time monitoring, remote upgrades and fewer on-site visits; the project automated branch data protection and cut TCO by about 80%, saving the company millions and simplifying support and recovery.