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Case Study: VP Buildings

Overview VP Buildings, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, is a world leader in developing, manufacturing, and distributing versatile, energy-efficient, pre-engineered steel building systems. It employs 200 people at several manufacturing facilities throughout the United States. The company needed a reliable, cost-effective alternative to general-purpose servers for storing builders' drawings for current projects. VP Buildings chose Windows Powered Iomega NAS for its affordable cost of ownership, hot-swappable drives, and ease of deployment and management.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	November 2005
Format	Case Studies
Topics	N/A

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