Case Study: Mead & Hunt cuts IT costs and scales collaboration with Panzura CloudFS

Mead & Hunt cuts IT spend by $250K and scales to 900 employees with Panzura

Mead & Hunt, a century-old engineering and architectural firm, faced significant challenges due to its rapid growth across more than 40 offices. Its legacy infrastructure created isolated data silos, leading to expensive expansion costs, collaboration bottlenecks with CAD files, and an inability to meet federal security compliance requirements. The company needed a solution to enable real-time collaboration, simplify its IT structure, and reduce costs.

By implementing Panzura's CloudFS hybrid cloud file system alongside Workspot cloud workstations, Mead & Hunt consolidated its storage and modernized its IT operations. The solution from Panzura provided global file locking, achieved CMMC compliance, and delivered high availability. As a result, the firm reduced its IT costs by $250,000 over two years while increasing its headcount by 50%, achieved a 50% storage reduction, and eliminated its legacy NAS/SAN hardware.

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