FEATURE : STORAGE
Grupo Comercial Control is a 100 % Mexicanowned company with more than 50 years of retail experience . The company includes Del Sol , Woolworth , Boutiques Locura department stores , Noreste Grill and Café W restaurants .
Impact on Grupo Comercial Control
• Attracts customers by identifying products that people want
• Reacts quickly to changing retail industry during COVID
• Achieves 80 % performance improvement for critical applications
Challenges
• Storage lacked modern features to support new technologies
• Backups took a lot of time and effort
• Storage was difficult to manage , taking up limited IT team resources
Results
FlashArray supports greater performance for all business-critical data and workloads , including SAP HANA databases , business intelligence and inventory and sales systems .
All sales integration processes take advantage of SAP HANA Native Storage Extension ( NSE ), saving memory and making better use of SAP HANA Enterprise .
The IT team manages data backups through snapshots replicated to AWS , supporting the company ’ s hybrid cloud strategy . Snapshots take just seconds – a big change from the six hours needed previously to synchronize discs overnight multiple times a week .
Spinning up new environments takes less time , improving recovery times .
Meanwhile , compression and deduplication in FlashArray reduce the space needed for multiple test , quality and development environments .
Grupo Comercial Control plans to continue growing its business in Mexico with support from Pure Storage .
The innovative storage solution is preparing the company to address the future of retail and continue to exceed customer expectations by turning data into great results .
• Maximizes performance of SAP HANA native storage extension data tiering
• Enhances resiliency with snapshots processed in seconds
• Supports business growth by reducing daily storage maintenance
“ Pure Storage solutions have allowed us to be closer to our customers , to understand their behavior and to adapt to the changes that have taken place worldwide ,” said Ibarra . p
PURE STORAGE SOLUTIONS HAVE ALLOWED US TO BE
CLOSER TO OUR CUSTOMERS , TO UNDERSTAND THEIR
BEHAVIOR AND TO ADAPT TO THE CHANGES THAT HAVE
TAKEN PLACE WORLDWIDE .
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