Securities America Radically Improves Customer Service and Advisor Satisfaction with Pure

Challenges

• Best performance needed for new STP system
• Performance for existing core systems was strained
• Maintenance tasks were exceeding window impacting the advisor experience of software
• Provide nationwide team of financial advisors with a high-performance web-based workspace
• Reduce risk and cost of regulatory compliance for business continuity
• Total cost of ownership must fit budget and technology roadmap

Results

• Migrated entire VMware virtual server platform to flash and saw 1,400% faster VM migration
• 65% faster backups of critical virtual servers
• Able to fit more backups into a much smaller backup time window
• Dramatic acceleration of core IT processes
• $600,000 anticipated storage savings, in part due to data reduction
• Near-instantaneous retrieval of key documents leading to better advisor experience
• Reduced reputation risk