Government agencies everywhere are facing enormous challenges as they confront the demands of the digital age, including an explosion in information system assets. LCCOC made the switch to NetApp to migrate the data from the legacy system in just two weekends.

1. Net BenefitsProductivity SavingsAlternative Solution
Cost Avoidance
Total Investment
-$1,000K
-$800K
-$600K
-$400K
-$200K
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$200K
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-$690K $700K
$321K $331K
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Headquarters: Ft. Myers, Florida
Web site: www.leeclerk.org
Industry: Government
Employees: 400
HIGHLIGHTS
Goal:
Lee County Clerk of Courts wanted to
upgrade its data-storage operations
to manage a growing volume of digital
records and control rising administration
costs.
Solutions:
• NetApp®
FAS3020 and 3070 series
storage with NetApp MetroCluster®
,
SnapMirror®
, SnapRestore®
,
SynchMirror®
, FlexClone®
, and FlexVol®
• SnapManager®
for Microsoft SQL
Server and Microsoft Exchange
Results:
• 46% ROI over 3 years
• Avoided $700K in capital costs
• Avoided IT staffing costs of $150K
• Gained $170K in productivity boost
LEE COUNTY CLERK OF COURTS STREAMLINES DATA
STORAGE, SAFEGUARDS RECORDS WITH NETAPP SOLUTION
“NetApp plays a critical role
in ensuring fast and reliable
information backups, while
maintaining maximum security and
availability of our records.”
Doris Maitland, IT Director
THE CHALLENGE
Government agencies everywhere are facing enormous challenges as they confront the
demands of the digital age, including an explosion in information systems and assets.
• Lee County Clerk of Courts (LCCOC) was experiencing rising data storage and
management needs, with its volume of digital records growing 400 gigabytes month.
• Backing up the agency’s 21 terabyte data repository was an extremely slow process,
taking nearly seven days to complete.
• The legacy system lacked seamless failover capabilities, raising the risk of service
interruptions.
THE NETAPP SOLUTION
LCCOC made the switch to NetApp in
mid-2007, enlisting NetApp Professional
Services to migrate the data from the
legacy system in just two weekends.
The new NetApp platform is exceeding
the agency’s expectations, with LCCOC
achieving 84% faster backups while
spending 70% time administering storage
systems. The move to NetApp also
provided LCCOC with the seamless failover
capability it needed to instantly recover
from a server or storage outage.
Meanwhile, NetApp’s space-optimization
technology is helping the agency cope with
rising volumes of data, with the FlexVol tool
enabling administrators to rapidly create
flexibly sized LUNs and volumes across a
large pool of disks.
Over three years, LCCOC is expected to
realize $1.0M in total benefits from NetApp.
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60
NetApp
Environment
Legacy
Environment
Email Recovery Time (Minutes)
Summary
ROI 46%
Net Benefits $331K
Payback Period > 1 year
27
163
NetApp
Environment
Legacy
Environment
Average Backup Time (Hours)
25%
95%
NetApp
Environment
Legacy
Environment
% of Storage Administration Time