Case Study: Sun Branding Solutions achieves petabyte-scale storage and improved productivity with Microsoft Corporation Azure

The Future of Data looks Bright for Sun Branding Solutions

Sun Branding Solutions Ltd, a large UK professional services company, creates in-store packaging and marketing materials for major brands, which means managing huge amounts of artwork data. As its existing 25TB of storage and hundreds of terabytes of tape archives neared end of life, the company needed a better way to scale storage while keeping files accessible for artworkers, and turned to Microsoft Corporation and Azure.

Microsoft Corporation, working through partners, implemented Microsoft StorSimple Hybrid Cloud solutions built on Azure. The hybrid setup cached frequently used files locally and replicated the rest to the cloud, helping Sun Branding Solutions expand to 1PB of storage with no upfront capital costs. The move also improved artworker productivity, freed a full-time backup restorer for higher-value work, and strengthened disaster recovery readiness.

Sun Branding Solutions

Kevin Evans

CIO