Chicago Records Management Launches Digital Services With EqualLogic SAN

With warehouses containing over a million boxes of documents and thousands of data tapes in a climate-controlled fire-resistant vault, Chicago Records Management (CRM) is one of the largest independently owned records management centers in the U.S. Founded in 1988, this family-owned company with 50 employees is located outside of Chicago, Illinois.

While continuing to provide hardcopy document storage, CRM has been implementing major changes recently. First, they are consolidating two warehouses into a single new facility near O'Hare Airport. Second, they have expanded their offerings to include digital imaging and electronic backup, making them an application service provider as much as an off-site record center. These revenue growth opportunities were the key drivers that led IT manager Bob Maiers to buy an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN.

Digital Imaging and Electronic Backup
The successful launch of these two electronic services depended not only on new applications, but on highly available and reliable data storage – the EqualLogic PS300E storage array.