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Saphety Leverages Violin Memory All-Flash Solution [Manufacturing Close - Up](Manufacturing Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Violin Memory was selected by Saphety as the company's storage of choice in a virtualized, data-intensive environment, through Violin channel partner Fujitsu Technology Solutions Portugal S.A. According to a company release, the Saphety portfolio of purchase- to-pay solutions, process optimization, and data and media synchronization allows for the exchange of electronic and automated business processes between organizations and clients. Part of the Sonae Group, Saphety provides value to more than 6,800 customers and 50,000 users in 20 countries by offering electronic-based business solutions at competitive service levels that deliver 99.999 availability. However, immense business and clientele growth became a challenge for Saphety's existing hard disk drive-based subsystems. Customer service levels were impacted and infrastructure consolidation and the rollout of new services were delayed. "Further impacting our IT processes, and the ability of our database team to meet business SLAs, was that our database administrators were continually spending time managing and tuning applications due to the poor performance of our existing storage rather than focusing on their critical tasks at hand," said Joao Sousa, IT Manager at Saphety. "The storage bottleneck was affecting all aspects of our business and operations." Saphety's infrastructure utilizes a number of different database technologies, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL and MySQL. In an effort to improve manageability and drive consolidation, Saphety planned to move the database servers and other physical servers to a VMware virtualized environment. Migration was delayed due to constraints in the existing storage and Saphety could not add more servers or services. "We had experienced first-hand the benefits of Violin with companies facing similar issues and we knew that Saphety's challenges would be addressed with Violin all-flash arrays," said Pedro Pinto, Storage Business Development manager at Fujitsu. "At Violin, our customers have continually demonstrated the business value of Violin all-flash solutions and how we help our customers transform the economics of their data center," said Eric Herzog, CMO and SVP of Alliances at Violin Memory. "Saphety is another clear case illustrating both the business advantage, technical benefits, and return on investment that Violin flash arrays deliver." More Information: http://www.violin-memory.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |