Case Study: Northumberland County achieves over $1.1 million in taxpayer savings and modernized citizen services with NetApp Private Storage for AWS

Northumberland County: Away from the River and into the Cloud

Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (about 90,000 residents) needed to modernize IT on a tight budget: its data center sat in a floodplain, was nearing capacity, relied on tape backups, and was managed by just two IT staff—making data protection, compliance (including HIPAA), and reliable citizen services increasingly difficult.

The county adopted a fully managed hybrid cloud using NetApp Private Storage for AWS hosted in Equinix with DirectConnect, keeping control of sensitive data while leveraging cloud compute. The move delivered stronger disaster recovery and compliance, more reliable services (email, 911, tax systems, and future ERP), enabled paperless and mobile initiatives with an estimated 25% productivity gain for field staff, and is projected to save over $1.1 million in hardware and facility costs over 10 years.

Northumberland County

Stephen Bridy

Commissioner