Bank Leumi’s IT team had objectives typical to those of their counterparts in the finance arena: ensuring high system performance and reliability while utilising rich features for optimised administration. An ongoing challenge to these objectives was an ever-growing capacity need, as well as tight IT budgets limiting equipment purchases and administration team size. Always seeking a better mousetrap to meet its objectives, the Leumi team opted to put a single XIV system in place. Given that the system was then a newcomer to the storage market, Leumi cautiously anticipated a two-year trial period. Yet within five months, due to overwhelmingly positive results, the system was put into production. The bank ultimately installed a total of seven XIV systems in the first 19 months, at its primary as well as its disaster recovery sites.