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CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Photobucket Pictures Better Business Efficiencies With Hitachi Cloud Services Rather than facing recurrent storage capital outlays, Photobucket Corporation focuses on an optimized consumption model for greater business agility and innovation.
“ We must always be ready to transform and align in this fast-moving market. Flexibility and rapidly being able to make changes are essential to our success. The partnership with Hitachi Data Systems enables us to focus on the customer, keep our data center footprint to a minimum, and move to an operational, expenditure-based cost model. These are extremely important priorities for us.” Tom Munro, CEO, Photobucket
CHALLENGES
Wanted to archive original photos off-site and keep Web copies on-site for faster retrieval
Needed to move from capital outlay model to operational, expenditure-based model
Continue providing innovative services, performance and capacity to customers
Difficulty adequately forecasting and budgeting storage capacity purchases
Required greater agility and lower IT costs
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Actionable Actionable Technology
Actionable Actionable Innovation
Legacy architecture hampered technology decisions and product innovation
Volume of content being uploaded exceeding supportable ingestion rates
RESULTS
Straightforward API for easy development and deployment
Optimized performance for customers
Optimize for customers Improvedperformance business agility
Cost-effective consumption model
Extensive cloud mobility and application integration
Dual replication of original images are
Provisioning of terabytes of storage in minutes
Instant replication to tenant or namespace
Fully managed cloud service
SOLUTIONS
Cloud
Hitachi Cloud Services with Hitachi Content Platform Single vendor, all-cloud and object-based storage solution
