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How a health insurer made their block storage flexible and dynamic

This leading health insurance provider in the UK has evolved throughout the company’s life. To meet the demands of modern healthcare, they operate a complex Azure environment that must deal with strict data requirements and growing data volumes. This has led to a large and rapidly growing Managed Disk footprint. 

As a data-heavy company, cloud storage represents a significant portion of their cloud bill. Supporting and maintaining storage made up a significant percentage of the team’s time, and they frequently faced situations where changing data required their storage to change as well. While it was easy to expand their disks, shrinking them back down was all but impossible. 

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Facing the cost and time impacts of managing their Azure Managed Disks, they set out to find a better way. To do so, they implemented Lucidity to rightsize their block storage in Azure autonomously 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. 

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With their Managed Disks rightsized today and the peace of mind to know that their continued data growth will be optimized in the future, this health insurance company has eliminated manual storage management, recouped significant wasted spend and avoided future costs, all with no performance impact in a complex Azure environment. They’re now looking forward to building a strategic partnership with Lucidity focused on delivering autonomous, cost-efficient, and high performing infrastructure for whatever the future throws at them.