Case Study: Maurice Blackburn Lawyers achieves 4x faster data processing and boosted staff productivity with Pure Storage

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers Positions for Growth with Price, Performance and Simplicity of Pure Storage

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, a long-established Australian law firm with roughly 50 partners, 800 staff and 50+ offices, was struggling to support rapid growth: document management and other applications were sluggish, full-text searches and queries timed out or took up to 45 seconds, storage costs and management were escalating, and the existing SAN could not meet future needs.

The firm deployed a Pure Storage FA-405 following a quick POC and fast migration, gaining roughly 4x faster data processing, 12x faster backups and a 4.5:1 data reduction ratio. The result: full-text searches dropped to under 10 seconds, Citrix and SQL performance improved, storage management now requires less than one full-time equivalent, and the firm has a simple, scalable storage foundation to support ongoing growth.

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Brett Johnstone

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