Brocade Solutions solves California Tax Data Storage Woes.

Executive Summary

The business of the California Franchise Tax Board relies heavily on data. The organization, which employs 5,000 staff full time and up to 6,500 during tax season, also administers the state’s Homeowner and Renter Assistance initiative. The department saves much of this information in large Oracle databases and it scans paper tax returns for digital storage. In compliance with state regulations, the department must save this data for several years, depending upon the nature of the information. To meet this need California Franchise Tax Board relied on Brocade Solutions which provided Reliable, high-speed, centralized storage environment and Scalability to store data migrated from direct-attached storage