Customer Stories
The Foschini Group

The Foschini Group Gains Real-Time Access to Critical Data and Provides High-Quality Customer Shopping Experiences

Summary

The Foschini Group (TFG), one of South Africa’s leading retailers, needed a robust storage infrastructure to guarantee high-performance and 24/7 availability of applications for forecasting and customer management. By partnering with Pure Storage®, TFG now has a modern storage infrastructure that is reliable and offers sub-millisecond latencies. In addition, with the Pure Evergreen™ Storage business model and the Pure1® storage management console, TFG can proactively manage any performance issues and easily scale storage in line with business needs, without any forklift upgrades or disruption to the business.

Industry

Retail

GEO

South Africa

Use Cases

Database – Microsoft® SQL Server, SAP®, Oracle®, SAS
VSI – VMware® vSphere®

Website

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Challenges

Legacy infrastructure included a number of disparate storage subsystems with unacceptable latency and response times.

Results

Business Transformation

TFG employees now have real-time access to critical data for forecasting and understanding customer buying habits, allowing them to better control inventory and provide high-quality customer shopping experiences.

IT Transformation

Performance and availability of business-critical applications improved significantly.
Pure1 enables IT team to have a holistic view of the Pure Storage infrastructure and gain granular, minute-by-minute control over performance issues.
The Pure Evergreen Storage business model allows easy scalability without any downtime or disruption in service to business.

“This is the performance level we needed to be at to remain relevant in our operating market."

Conrad Roos

Senior Department Manager

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