Lafayette Utilities standardizes on Dell PowerStore for resilience

Lafayette Utilities System (LUS) has standardized on Dell PowerStore as a unified storage platform and expanded Dell PowerProtect solutions to strengthen resilience and cyber protection.

• Main announcement: LUS standardized on Dell PowerStore for block and file workloads and, with Dell Services and a dedicated resident engineer, migrated 93TB block + 44TB file (137TB total)three times faster than previous efforts with no downtime, realizing ~50% better virtual performance, ~30% faster service deployment, backup windows down up to 75% (overall backups from ~20 hours to 4–5 hours, Exchange from 4 hours to 20 minutes), ~25% lower power use, and ~80% reduction in daily administration effort.
• Background and implementation details: The deployment included PowerStore features like Metro LUNs, synchronous replication, and file-level snapshots to achieve near-zero RPOs and fast failover; LUS also deployed PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect Cyber Recovery with CyberSense for unified protection. The migration approach emphasized integration with existing tools (e.g., Active Directory) and operational simplicity; Dell engineers performed the migration and residency support during rollout.