Case Study: City of Nederland achieves scalable, compliant, and lower-cost storage operations with Zadara Storage

The City of Nederland Accelerates Data Storage Operations With Zadara

The City of Nederland, Texas, which provides IT services for Nederland and the neighboring cities of Port Neches and Groves, was facing a traditional SAN that was reaching capacity and proving inflexible, staff‑intensive, and CapEx‑heavy while also needing to meet CJIS criminal justice data compliance. To address these challenges the City engaged Blue Iron Technologies and adopted Zadara Storage’s fully‑managed Enterprise Storage‑as‑a‑Service (on‑premises VPSA) to get the flexibility and compliance controls they required.

Zadara Storage delivered an on‑premises, pay‑as‑you‑go VPSA solution with fully managed support that segregated criminal justice data onto dedicated arrays for compliance, enabled seamless scaling of capacity, and provided full charge‑back reporting. As a result, deployment was faster and simpler, staff training was easier, storage costs were reduced and tied directly to projects, and the City improved disaster‑recovery planning by replicating key data to a Blue Iron co‑location facility.

City of Nederland

William Spell

Certified Government Chief Information Officer