Imagine walking into an IT environment of more than 1,500 employees that includes mainframes, a Token Ring network and a monolithic storage system. Your goals are to upgrade the network; consolidate file, print and authentication servers; reduce the number of utility servers; reduce costs for HVAC, power and space; and provide better support with the same or fewer staff. In other words, put your organization 'on the leading edge of technology'...with all the usual budget constraints. That's exactly the challenge that faced CTO David Siles in 2003, when he arrived in Kane, the fourth-largest County in Illinois. To make matters even more challenging, at the same time, the County's storage needs were growing exponentially, since they were required to keep an original copy of every official record, while maintaining constant data availability through a new paperless court system. This technical case study reveals the server and storage technology Siles used to tackle the problem.