Customer:

BoyleSports is Ireland’s most successful independent bookmaker, operating across 250 stores, in addition to hosting a digital platform. Offering everything from real-time sports betting to poker, casino games, bingo, and more; data-centric IT and a customer first mind set lie at the heart of its operation.

Challenges:

• Existing storage was nearing capacity ahead of plan due to rapid business growth.
• Upgrading the legacy storage was a step upgrade and thus potentially expensive.
• Needed resilient infrastructure that could respond to peaks in demand during busy betting periods, such as the Grand National.

Use Case:

• Virtual Server Infrastructure (VSI) – VMware vSphere, Oracle

Business Transformation:

The simplicity of Pure Storage FlashArray™ has streamlined data management for BoyleSport’s IT team and delivers the high performance and agility required within their industry.

IT Transformation:

• Pure Storage delivers speed, performance and data reduction in a consolidated environment.
• BoyleSports migrated old legacy and customer-facing platforms into one infrastructure, simplifying data management for employees.
• FlashArray delivers improved data de-duplication rate of 3:1.
• The Pure Evergreen™ Storage program allows infrastructure to be upgraded and modernized as needed, without incurring additional costs.