San Diego County Communication Office Deploys Crossroads StrongBox

Crossroads Systems, Inc. announced that the San Diego County Communications Office is one of the latest government entities to deploy its StrongBox storage and protection solution.

StrongBox is designed to provide cost-effective, long-term data protection for fixed content and unstructured data, such as video or image files. As government entities face increasing budget constraints, it empowers organizations, such as the San Diego County Communications Office, to control storage costs with the ability to scale into petabytes, without sacrificing data availability.

The San Diego County Communications Office serves more than 70,000 monthly visitors to www.countynewscenter.com as well as numerous county departments that utilize the office’s video assets. Like many state and local government organizations, it felt the increasing pressures of a limited budget. Yet, as skyrocketing video content eclipsed its existing SAN storage capacity, the organization needed a more scalable, cost-efficient approach to data preservation.

To reduce the cost and complexity of managing its fast-growing video archive, the office deployed StrongBox through Crossroads’ strategic partner, ViON Corporation. StrongBox helped the organization minimize additional performance storage equipment expenses while providing long-term reliability for many terabytes of vital content. ViON streamlined the acquisition process through its existing GSA contract, allowing the office to meet storage growth requirements and avoid the complexities of the bid process.

“StrongBox has saved us a ton of money and time,” said Jose Villanueva, a producer at the San Diego County Communications Office. “We have about 25 TB of archival footage today, which we can expand easily with StrongBox. It acts like disk – we don’t have to extend our SAN and we also don’t have to buy a separate tape system for long-term content. We clearly found the solution that delivered the most ‘bang for the buck,’ that is also easy to use, and simplifies our workflow.“

“ViON is excited to collaborate with Crossroads to deliver an affordable, active archive solution addressing the ever-increasing data growth at the San Diego County Communications Office,” said Tom Frana, president and CEO, ViON.

“Crossroads is pleased to work with ViON to provide government organizations such as the San Diego County Communications Office with substantial cost savings and increased data protection,” said David Cerf, EVP of strategy and business development, Crossroads. “StrongBox delivers the always-online storage that the Communications Office needs and couples it with the low cost and protection of tape.“