San Diego Padres Hit CRM Performance Gains Out of the Park

The San Diego Padres baseball club chose FlashStack® to replace sluggish legacy storage. Now sales staff has uninterrupted access to critical customer data, baseball operations and business intelligence units run complex data analyses without performance impact, and IT has more time for strategic activities.

Fan data drives core San Diego Padres applications, making fast access critical. As the organization and its fan base grew, performance suffered under heavy database use and complaints increased. The IT team traced the problem to resource contention, which could not be resolved with the legacy SATA-based storage system—not even by augmenting it with flash memory.

The San Diego Padres sales staff have unimpeded access to fan data, ending their rivalry with operations over resources. The operations team can run intensive workloads at any time and business intelligence teams can do more complex analyses. Backups run four times faster and day-to-day storage management consumes less time.