Case Study: The Field Museum achieves scalable, protected cloud storage with Microsoft Azure and Nasuni

The Field Museum - Customer Case Study

The Field Museum, a major natural history museum in Chicago, faced a challenge managing the explosive growth of its unstructured data from digitized collections and scientific research. Its traditional storage area network (SAN) was not scalable, agile, or cost-effective, and data protection was becoming increasingly difficult. To solve this, the museum deployed a hybrid solution from Microsoft, utilizing Nasuni Enterprise File Services backed by Microsoft Azure.

The Microsoft solution provided the museum with a scalable, cloud-based storage infrastructure that integrated with their existing on-premises investment. This delivered significant cost savings of 60% on storage and reduced management time by 50%. Additionally, the solution offered superior, automated data protection with instant file recovery, ensuring the museum's critical research data is securely available 24/7 to scientists worldwide.

The Field Museum

Rob Zschernitz

Chief Technology Officer