Case Study
Cohesity Helps Extinguish Legacy Backup and Recovery Issues
CASE STUDY Cohesity Helps Extinguish Legacy Backup and Recovery Issues INTRODUCTION Founded in 1974, West Midlands Fire Service is the UK’s second largest metropolitan fire brigade, covering the whole of the county with a team of 1,887 employees. Comprised of 15 councillors from seven different councils, it encompasses 38 fire stations, one headquarters location, and a central command control centre providing services for 2.8 million people. CHALLENGES West Midlands Fire Service needed to update its IT strategy and identify a solution partner that embraced next-generation backup and recovery technology to guarantee future scalability. One of the biggest challenges for the Service was strict constraints on IT spending. As a government-funded service, budgets had been further slashe