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Recruiting and staffing firm rightsizes and right-tiers their disks

This human resources and staffing company is a major presence in EMEA. Given the sensitive nature of their business and data, they operate a complex Azure environment with stringent security requirements, including Azure disk encryption across their infrastructure to ensure data protection and compliance.

As part of ensuring zero user impact during their initial migration efforts to the cloud, this company deployed all workloads on premium SSD storage with significant overprovisioning, resulting in only 28% disk utilization. With many areas to focus on, post-migration, storage management and optimization initially took a backseat, leaving significant visibility gaps, manual processes, and inefficiencies. 

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As the pain became sharper, they set out to better manage and optimize their Azure storage. To do so, they implemented Lucidity AutoScaler and Lumen to rightsize and right-tier their block storage in Azure without requiring code or infrastructure changes. With Lucidity, their Managed Disks automatically expand and shrink as the data requires, maintaining an ideal 65%-80% disk utilization with zero downtime. Lumen delivers intelligent disk tiering based on historical analysis of IOPS, throughput, and latency to recoup costs and ensure optimal performance. 

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With their Managed Disks rightsized and right-tiered, this HR technology company has eliminated manual storage management, recouped significant wasted spend and avoided future costs as their estate grows, all with no performance impact. 

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