Finitia Empowers Architects with Speed and Flexibility

Finitia requires top performance and resilience to support VDI services for architecture and engineering firms. The Pure Storage platform, with its Evergreen® architecture and subscriptions, provides sustainable, reliable performance—ensuring business growth for years to come.

Finitia specializes in providing IT, finance, and HR services for top architecture, planning, and engineering firms. Businesses can focus resources on creating the buildings, cities, and infrastructure of tomorrow knowing that Finitia has their backs.

When it comes to IT, every business needs reliable storage, but this is especially true for architects and engineers as their work often involves massive design files. They need high-performance, scalable storage capable of loading files quickly.

When the storage platform supporting the VMware environment for Finitia’s VDI service reached end of life, Micha Bucher, Head of IT, Associate Partner for the company, faced a difficult task. He needed to completely rip and replace storage—a process that would lead to not only enormous cost, but also enormous waste.

With support from implementation partner BNC, Finitia migrated its VMware environment to the Pure Storage platform. Using FlashArray//X™, it provides four to five times faster performance for the VDI service, eliminating lag while supporting up to 400 concurrent users. Pure1® streamlines management, providing administrators with excellent visibility into performance and allowing them to optimize the virtual environment from anywhere.

“VDI is inherently more energy efficient than running hundreds of individual PCs, and with Pure Storage, our VMware environment is easier and faster to manage,” says Bucher.

Having seen the excellent performance of FlashArray//X and the consistency of the entire platform, Finitia deployed Pure Storage FlashArray//C™ to support the disaster recovery environment with Veeam backups. Combined with immutable snapshots through FlashArray™, Finitia gains excellent resilience with protection against ransomware—one of the greatest IT risks for any organization. The company can better meet SLAs with very low downtime to keep customers working.

“Backup and recovery in combination with Veeam runs smoothly and securely,” says Bucher. “The combination of Pure and Veeam in terms of cyber resilience gives us peace of mind. There is no better protection,” says Bucher.

While performance and security impressed Bucher, it was the platform’s ability to expand and stay modern via the Evergreen//Forever™ subscription that convinced him that Pure Storage was the right choice.

With a Pure Storage Evergreen//Forever subscription, Finitia can upgrade controllers and expand storage capacity at any time, eliminating downtime for maintenance. The subscription model also makes costs more predictable, giving Finitia a competitive advantage by allowing it to deliver more visibility into fees for customers.

Sustainability is also a concern for many customers, particularly when it comes to sustainable design and building practices. With Evergreen//Forever, upgrades no longer involve fully replacing hardware, leading to less waste. The high-performance FlashArray units allow Finitia to deliver strong performance in a smaller footprint, which reduces power and cooling requirements.

“Pure Storage consumes 75% less power and needs 50% less rack space in the data center, helping us demonstrate our commitment to being a sustainability partner for our customers,” says Bucher.

With Pure Storage, Finitia significantly improved performance and cyber resiliency. It serves as a sustainable long-term storage solution with high flexibility for further growth.

“Pure Storage gives us everything our customers need: fast, highly available, and energy-efficient storage that balances frequent updates with continuous operation and for us, the management interface is very user friendly. There’s nothing else like it,” says Bucher.