Ballance Agri-Nutrients Adds Nourishing All-Flash Arrays from Pure Storage

Farmer-owned cooperative uses Pure Storage to improve performance and deliver better outcomes so member farmers can be “future-ready.”

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Summary

Ballance Agri-Nutrients is a farmer-owned co-operative that is New Zealand’s largest producer and distributor of fertilizer and other nutrient products for use on soil and animals. Ballance uses a Pure Storage FlashArray to improve the performance of SAP and other key applications, deliver better outcomes for customers, and radically streamline storage management.

Industry

Manufacturing / Agriculture

GEO

New Zealand

Use Cases

Virtual Server Infrastructure – VMware® vSphere®
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – Citrix®
SAP® – ERP, CRM, e-commerce, supply chain
Database – Microsoft® SQL Server

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Challenges

Legacy storage was at the end of life and was exhibiting high latencies.
Complexity of storage management taxed the resources of a small IT staff.

Results

Business Transformation

Customer-owners see accelerated response times on an innovative farm-management portal. VDI performance is noticeably faster, and the IT staff has virtually no demands for storage management.