SAN Serves Vital Role In City IT Initiatives

Ogden, Utah, which placed first in its population category in the Center for Digital Government's 2004 Digital Cities Survey, credits its storage area network with an important role in the city's overall strategy to leverage IP infrastructure, improve efficiencies and reduce IT spending.

"The city's storage infrastructure provided by LeftHand Networks is a primary component to the entire IT infrastructure, which was evaluated in the Digital Cities Survey," said Jay Brummett, the City of Ogden's chief technology officer. "The LeftHand SAN has been extremely easy to manage, even for our data-intensive operation. We leverage the SAN as an integral component to our overall IT infrastructure and disaster recovery initiatives."

The SAN was selected to address the city's need for a scalable and flexible storage solution that was capable of addressing long-term growth expectations while, at the same time, reduce down-time, simplify administration, provide high-data availability and improve performance across the network.