Case Study: Draper achieves 30% lower storage costs and 75% higher IT staff productivity with Dell Technologies

Draper boosts innovation, cuts costs by 30 percent and increases IT staff productivity by 75 percent with an end-to-end solution from Dell Technologies

Draper, a leading R&D organization working on projects from spacecraft guidance to precision medicine, faced a highly complex IT environment that slowed workloads and risked delaying research. To simplify management and give engineers fast, on-demand access to diverse tools and historical data, Draper engaged Dell Technologies, using Dell EMC ProDeploy services and core solutions such as Dell EMC Unity and Dell EMC ECS.

Dell Technologies delivered an end-to-end architecture—including Dell EMC Unity, ECS, VxRail, Isilon, VMware virtualization, and Dell client devices—installed via ProDeploy to provide a single point of contact and faster rollout. The result: Draper replaced 12 arrays with one Unity rack (cutting physical storage footprint by 92%), lowered capital storage costs by 30%, halved daily backup times to six hours, and boosted IT staff productivity by 75%, dramatically simplifying maintenance and accelerating innovation.

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Sam Carone

Storage Engineer