Clackamas County Awarded for Deploying F5 Networks and Data Domain Solution

F5 Networks, Inc. announced that Clackamas County of the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area has been recognized for its deployment of the F5 products ARX solution to control rising data storage costs and increase data management efficiencies.

 
Clackamas County’s use of ARX to address its storage challenges has earned the company a spot as a finalist in the category of Best Practices in Planning, Designing, and Building a Next Generation Storage and Server Infrastructure for the Storage Networking World (SNW) Best Practices awards. Presented in conjunction with Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, the award program is designed to identify and acknowledge excellence among IT user organizations. Clackamas County’s IT team was honored at an awards ceremony at Storage Networking World Fall in Dallas, Texas.  
 
Details
Clackamas County implemented a flexible storage strategy built on two layers of storage virtualization: block-level with its storage area network (SAN) and file-level with F5 ARX. Each virtualization layer decouples logical data access from physical storage locations. This enables data to be moved without disrupting users, which is fundamental to increasing operational flexibility. File-level mobility with ARX enabled the organization to immediately incorporate and start tiering to new deduplication storage systems, further reducing storage costs. As part of its comprehensive storage solution, Clackamas County has also incorporated additional capacity and introduced solid state caching as a high-performance storage tier.
 
Highlights of Clackamas County’s ARX deployment
include:

• Automated Storage Tiering: Reclaimed 85 percent of high-performance disk capacity, enabling the county to meet storage requirements
• Scaled Storage Capacity: Scaled capacity from 50TB to 100TB without an increase in storage budget
• Deduplicated Storage: Moved 90 percent of file data to deduplicated storage (10:1 deduplication ratio), allowing for deferred Tier 1 capacity purchases

 
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