Data consolidation case study: British Transport Police

Martin Courtney
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How 40TB of data from 148 sites has been consolidated into a single storage area network at the British Transport Police's primary datacentre in Camden

The British Transport Police (BTP) protects more than six million passengers a day as they travel on the UK's railways. The body relies heavily on information generated by specialist Command Con...

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