CASE STUDY
When oil and gas markets fluctuate , industry leaders adapt . Pilot Thomas Logistics , headquartered in Texas , continues to meet customers ’ industrial energy needs by doing more with less , including automating and streamlining IT .
As a cost center , Pilot IT recognizes the need to add value and reduce spend , both of which it has been able to do with the web-scale Cohesity data management platform .
Since deploying Cohesity for file shares , backup and cloud archiving , Pilot staff have regained nearly 800 hours of lost productivity and saved over US $ 70,000 while achieving rapid ROI .
ABOUT PILOT THOMAS LOGISTICS
Pilot Thomas Logistics is the premier provider of fuel , lubricants and chemicals to the energy , marine , mining and industrial markets and is headquartered in Fort Worth , Texas . PTL operates in over 30 states from 100 plus terminals .
Challenges
Pilot ’ s ageing network attached storage ( NAS ) product was quickly and dramatically failing . It was full , housing 230 plus shares , and initially Pilot had a dedicated IT specialist to manage the solution . Yet as IT reorganized into more general positions , system complexity and constant alerts were overwhelming staff , creating a liability for the energy company .
When Pilot IT began searching for a new NAS solution , top requirements included lower cost , meeting SQL performance thresholds ( when used as a storage target ), the ability to archive to cloud for scalability , and little to no downtime during the migration of its production systems including SAP that also uses the file shares as a storage target . Ease of use with a low learning curve were also important considerations .
Solution
After an introduction by SHI , Pilot replaced its existing NAS product with Cohesity SmartFiles . Migration of all production file systems to Cohesity for nearly 50 terabytes of data was seamless , including about 100 SQL Servers writing to Cohesity as target storage . The
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