High-Performance Data Processing Provides Timely Information

Customer:

ASE Global is an automotive marketplace profitability specialist based in Manchester, UK. ASE has been working exclusively in the automotive industry for nearly 40 years, providing motor trade specific accountancy and professional services and the detailed analysis of retail performance data.

Challenges:

• With the amount of data that ASE Global was processing for its clients, the incumbent storage was reaching its limitations and impacting operations.
• New storage was needed that could process data faster, providing information for ASE Global automotive clients that could increase their profits.
• Demand for a storage solution was needed that could be upgraded easily without the need to buy expensive new hardware.

Use Case:

• VSI – VMware® vSphere®
• Database – Microsoft® SQL

Business Transformation:

• Automotive marketplace profitability specialist ASE Global can now deliver faster information to the large roster of automotive brands it works with, allowing them to make better strategic and tactical decisions in the automotive marketplace.

IT Transformation:

• Pure Storage FlashArray has a data reduction rate of 4.9 to 1.
• Pure Storage FlashArray performance is much better than incumbent solution, with higher IOPS.
• The implementation of Pure Storage and a wider technology refresh means that the ASE Global datacentre has consolidated from four racks to just the one.