Case Study: Livingston Parish Library achieves secure, compact, cost-effective data protection with Synology Inc.'s DS411slim

Livingston Parish Library - Customer Case Study

Livingston Parish Library, a public system in Louisiana with about 80 employees across six locations serving roughly 496,000 people a year, needed a compact, reliable way to protect sensitive administrative and personnel files and to provide simple access controls that management — not IT — could administer. To meet those requirements they selected Synology Inc.’s DS411slim as their storage solution.

Synology Inc. delivered the DS411slim, providing easy access control, automatic virus scanning of shared folders, and one‑click WordPress installation to host a local site copy for testing. The library gained organized, secured data management, improved disaster-readiness thanks to the small removable unit, and clear cost advantages — the director noted the DS411slim outperformed a prior $8,000 device and said a Synology could have been purchased for roughly a third of that price — prompting plans to replace other vendors’ storage and even a personal purchase by the director.

Livingston Parish Library

Giovanni Tairov

Director