Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 07 | Page 65

CASE STUDY could have made an incremental change to gain some modest improvements but we wanted a step change in performance, something that would last for many years.” Another reason for the choice was that the team required an infrastructure that was both state-of-the-art and portable. Putting performance-critical workloads trackside each race requires density and reliability. Pure Storage offered the team immediately focus on getting the technology in the door and impacting the business as quickly as possible.” Benefits from Pure Storage Since buying its first FlashArray from Pure Storage in 2015, the team has added several more and has moved virtually all its production applications and data onto Pure THE TYPICAL CONCERNS ABOUT FUTURE ISSUES – CAPACITY, UPGRADES, MAINTENANCE AND HOW MUCH IT WILL ALL COST US AGAIN – ARE NO LONGER AN ISSUE. Storage arrays. This includes Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases, CATIA CAD/ CAM, SAP, VMware servers, SharePoint and back-office functions along with Cisco UCS in its data centre. The ab