Case Study: Steelcase reduces storage costs and restore times with Microsoft Azure and StorSimple

Steelcase Corporation - Customer Case Study

Steelcase, a global office furniture manufacturer, faced significant challenges with its SharePoint backup and disaster recovery systems. Its lengthy backup times, frequent failures, and soaring storage costs prompted the company to seek a new solution. Steelcase turned to Microsoft for a hybrid cloud storage approach.

By implementing a solution featuring Microsoft’s StorSimple cloud-integrated storage and the Microsoft Azure platform, Steelcase automated its data protection. This move reduced administrative overhead and SAN storage costs by nearly half. Microsoft's solution also slashed backup and restore times by 75 percent and provided the company with a reliable, tested disaster recovery plan.

Steelcase

Roger Dore

Manager, Technical Services and Operations