Case Study: Woodard & Curran achieves unified cloud storage, $345K/year savings and rapid ransomware recovery with Panzura

Woodard & Curran Boosts Collaboration, Saves $350,000 Per Year

Woodard & Curran, a 900‑employee engineering, science and operations firm with 13 U.S. offices, was held back by an aging, multi‑NAS storage architecture (NetApp NAS, SnapMirror) and Riverbed WAN accelerators over a private MPLS network. Those "islands of storage" forced project files to live in single locations, slowing cross‑site collaboration and limiting IT responsiveness as the company scaled.

The firm deployed Panzura Hybrid Cloud Controllers in a hot‑edge/cold‑core design, migrating data site‑by‑site to the public cloud (initially AWS, later Azure) without changing user workflows. The consolidation eliminated NetApp/SnapMirror and Riverbed, enabled faster direct Internet links, saved about $120K/year on equipment refreshes and $225K/year on networking, simplified DR/backup/archiving, improved collaboration, and allowed rapid ransomware recovery via retained snapshots.

Woodard & Curran

Kenneth Danila

Director of Information Systems