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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. It has over 1500 full-time employees plus 1000 part-time and volunteer workers working out of 103 locations.
As a non-profit charitable organization with staff all across North America, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) relies heavily on email to conduct their day-to-day activities. With a culture that encouraged “saving everything”, LLS faced a number of storage challenges that increased their exposure to risk. Their Exchange store had grown to a point that both data restorations and backups were prohibitively time-consuming and difficult. Additionally, their network storage was growing at an unsustainable rate, with up to 70 percent taken up by PST files. In an effort to find a single solution to all these concerns, LLS turned to Fortiva.
Improved storage management, access to data without burdening IT
The LLS IT staff consists of about 25 people, and they place a high priority on keeping their people costs under control. With Fortiva, LLS was able to keep its headcount and hardware, while adding powerful functionality to their IT organization. “The reality is that we’re not experts in every area and we never will be, so it just makes sense for us to rely on outside experts for certain things, like email archiving,” said Claude Edkins, Vice President of Technology Infrastructure at LLS.
With Fortiva, LLS got:
- Immediate access to all mail going in and out and across the organization for business continuity reasons, legal discovery, or HR issues
- End-user access to historical email, allowing IT to enforce tighter quotas
- Elimination of PST files
- Significantly reduced demands on both Exchange and their network storage, resulting in improved performance and relieving the LLS IT team so they could focus on other critical applications.
- A fully managed solution that was implemented quickly without adding to their internal IT staff or infrastructure costs.
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