Storage solutions maker EMC announced today that the British Isle of Man Government’s Information Systems Division chose its offerings to power an “IT transformation initiative” stretching the full length of the nation’s administration Using flash, EMC VPLEX technology and EMC Unified Storage, the Isle’s entire public service infrastructure is now hosted in a hybrid cloud. That includes 1,000 critical government applications such as email, financial accounting and health management, among other things.

Peter Clarke, Chief Technology Officer at the Isle of Man Government, said, “The Isle of Man Government is an early adopter of new technologies, and our analysis indicated that VPLEX would reduce operating costs by 15 %. We wrote our business plan around this. It was a compelling argument. “

Breaking that 15 percent reduction down into specific details, storage resource utilization increased by 40 percent, meaning that disk system needs to be scaled at 80 percent capacity instead of 60. Additionally, system usage patterns are not analyzed by VPLEX to optimize cost efficiency over time, and the flash element adds more accessibility to data and apps running in this new deployment.

Fusion-io is also a company growing its foothold in the government market, and it’s using flash to achieve that, too.  DISA, short for Defense Information Systems Agency, said Fusion meets the Department of Defense sanitization standards. This means its ioMemory offering allows users to quickly deleting critical data, and it also means the company can now start doing business with defense contractors and national security agencies that store such classified data.

The news of the certification followed a case study release by the Navy. It upgraded its old RAID 5 deployment with Fusion-io, and said the resulting performance boost stands at 800 percent.