Victorinox Enhances its Storage System in Preparation for Continued Growth

Swiss army knife maker attains increased efficiency to meet the demanding requirements of its business operations.

Summary

Victorinox has found the optimal storage solution for its VDI environment. Pure Storage all-flash arrays impressed Victorinox with their quick installation and ease of use, as well as their high performance, stability, and reliability in demanding work environments. Today, Victorinox’s VDI infrastructure performs much better and with greater system reliability than its previous storage solution. This increased efficiency helps the company meet the demanding requirements of its business operations and continued growth.

Industry

Manufacturing

GEO

Switzerland

Use Cases

Virtualization – Microsoft® HyperV®
Database – Microsoft® SQL Server®
ERP – Comarch ERP Enterprise

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Challenges

Victorinox’s ERP system plays an essential role in the company’s IT environment, accounting for about 80 percent of its users. Working with business-critical data requires maximum uptime, performance, and agility. It was particularly in the area of performance that problems increasingly arose in the past. Application response times — and the IT systems in general — proved to be too slow, with delays that hindered the users’ work. The ERP system needed to deliver more power — but it was already stretched to its limits due to inadequate storage capacity and performance.

Overload and performance problems with previous storage solution hindered work.
ERP system’s power requirements are high.
The company needed to adapt its storage resources for business growth.

Results

Business Transformation

The new storage system resulted in a 20 percent faster response speed when accessing the ERP system. Thanks to its architectural advantages and highly efficient data reduction, Victorinox can meet current requirements in a lean and cost-efficient manner, as well as react effectively and agilely to future business requirements. Additionally, the Pure Evergreen™ Storage model protects investments to a great degree, and enables huge savings in full-cost accounting over several years.

IT Transformation

Data reduction ratio reached 3.2:1 for all workloads including VDI and SQL; providing 20 percent faster user access.
Easy-to-use storage environment required no outside assistance or additional software.
Higher virtualization engine throughput was achieved as predicted.
Significant time was saved when performing maintenance and booting the virtualized environment.

“Pure Storage’s spot in the upper right corner of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant shows that the company is a market leader. We were particularly impressed by their innovativeness.”

Peter Detterbeck

Head of Global IT Services, Victorinox