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    Southern California Institute of Architecture

    • Compressing storage by 98% so students don’t have to worry about losing their designs.

      Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) stores close to 600TB of data, with 20% annual data growth. Keeping students’ work, including animations and renderings that take days to create, is critical. Dell EMC Cloud DR keeps that data safe and recoverable at a moment’s notice. After deduplication and compression, SCI-Arc stores only 10TB on prem and in the cloud for disaster recovery — and backing up has little-to-zero network impact.

    • A smaller cloud footprint with more capabilities

      SCI-Arc’s data has grown at a rate of 20% in recent years.
      Students are constantly creating, and and protecting their data is vital. Dell EMC provides staff with peace of mind that data is getting backed up and that it can be restored.

    • Shaping architectural minds with confidence

      SCI-Arc’s data is integral to its identity as a haven for creative development, so data protection is one of the institution’s highest priorities. Dell EMC Cloud Disaster Recovery hosted on AWS allows SCI-Arc to recall all its backup data instantly.

    • Creative thinking necessitates creative data storage

      SCI-Arc underwent a IT transformation with on-premises and cloud-based backups. Retention of its cloud backups extended from 6 months to 2 years, and backup windows went from 36 to 3 hours. Dell EMC was the optimal partner for its transition to the cloud.

    • "Dell EMC has revolutionized how we back up and recover our data on premises or in the cloud through a single pane of glass."

      Peter Kekich, Network Systems Administrator, SCI-Arc

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    • Customer: Southern California Institute of Architecture
      Industry: Higher Education
      Location: United States

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