Case Study: Cornwall Stodart Lawyers achieves doubled performance and 40% storage savings with HPE Nimble Storage

Legal Firm Deploys Nimble Storage As Part of An Infrastructure Refresh

Cornwall Stodart Lawyers is a Melbourne-based mid-sized law firm of about 120 staff whose on-premise IT—managed by two IT staff—had become outdated: desktops were still on Windows XP, Exchange and SQL were old, servers were a mix of physical and virtual, and storage was not easily scalable. The IT manager secured board approval for an infrastructure refresh to virtualise all servers and resolve performance and capacity constraints so the firm could adopt full electronic document management and automate more processes.

The firm deployed a Nimble Storage CS210 with implementation support from Huon IT and migrated 40 virtual machines in a single weekend. The new array was inexpensive to implement, doubled application performance, reduced storage requirements by roughly 30–40% through compression, provided actionable performance insights via InfoSight, and enabled a more robust three-tier backup process while remaining easy to manage without extensive training.

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