Case Study: Woodard & Curran boosts collaboration and saves $350,000 a year with Panzura CloudFS

Woodard & Curran saves $350,000 a year with Panzura

Woodard & Curran, an environmental engineering firm, faced a significant challenge with an aging and ineffective NetApp data storage platform. This system created isolated data islands across their offices, severely impeding cross-site collaboration and causing massive losses in productivity as employees waited up to 20 minutes to open large CAD files.

By implementing Panzura's CloudFS solution with Microsoft Azure cloud storage, Woodard & Curran consolidated all its data and eliminated its storage islands. The solution from Panzura provided local-feeling file performance for all users, saved the company $350,000 annually on infrastructure and MPLS costs, and enabled a recovery from a ransomware attack in under an hour.

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