Veracel Improves its SAP Performance with a FlashStack Converged Infrastructure.

Company sees a simplified version of their IT Infrastructure to support the whole production chain, support, and IT evolution.

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Summary

Veracel is a joint venture of the world's two largest pulp and paper producers – Stora Enso and Suzano. As part of its digital transformation, their mission is to modernize the company’s processes without any risk of interruption at Veracel’s mill. Veracel chose FlashStack — the converged infrastructure solution from Pure Storage and Cisco Systems — speeds complex processing times and time-consuming processes, lowers operating costs, reduced storage space, and simplified administrative demands, enabling complete automation of SAP platform via CAT.

Industry

Pulp and Paper

GEO

LATAM / Brazil

Use Cases

ERP – SAP®
Database – Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle®
Virtual Server Infrastructure – VMware®

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Challenges

Maintain two active data centers without any risk of interruption at the plant.
Reduce ERP maintenance costs, equipment and periodic certification.
Reduce application response, storage space, latency and high rates of data.
Provide 24/7 support for uninterrupted business operations.

Results

Business Transformation

FlashStack™ — the converged infrastructure solution from Pure Storage® and Cisco Systems® — speeds complex processing times and time-consuming processes, lowers operating costs, reduced storage space, and simplified administrative demands, enabling complete automation of SAP platform via CAT.

IT Transformation

Application response reduced from 2 hours to 8 seconds.
Latency lowered from 100ms to 1ms.
High rates of data reduction ensure adequate storage capacity to meet long- term needs.
Storage space reduced by 75%, with only one rack in each data center.