West Midlands Police is the second biggest police force in the UK. With data volumes per individual case routinely passing the four terabytes mark, the on-premise IT infrastructure was being pushed to its storage limits and data analysis was becoming very time-consuming. To resolve these challenges, Node4 — in partnership with Microsoft and Exterro, and with regular input from the detective and other key stakeholders within the West Midlands Police Force — built and delivered FTK Central, the UK’s first cloud-based digital forensics analysis solution.