Urban Institute Case Study – How NEC’s HYDRAstor HS8 4000 Provided a Better Technology Solution

The Urban Institute strives to gain direct access to sources to gather the data, often yielding large volumes of highly confidential information that must be secured and protected with extreme care. Reliable storage, encryption, and accessibility is a critical part of this customer’s daily operations. The weekly information load for which the Urban Institute must provide deduplication, encryption, storage, and back up generally ran between 25-30 TB of highly proprietary, most private, project data.

To manage this process, Urban Institute had purchased a leading vendor’s larger data storage solution, and quickly found that it had to be expanded–by forklifting another product in, which did not interact well with their other new products. The ensuing overhead associated with having the necessary redundancy to protect this hardware and their data began to multiply in costs and efforts.