Amongst the goals of the migration, Rakon sought to ensure the company’s storage platform could keep up with growing capacity needs, improve speed, performance and reliability, and reduce the need for in-house staff to manage the company’s storage environment. Pure was able to meet all these goals comfortably.
Stuart Blythe, Country Manager for Pure Storage New Zealand, said: “Rakon is just the latest of the hundreds of companies that we’ve helped in the country to better optimise their data. The simplicity of Pure’s technology also enabled Rakon to quickly migrate its data platform to support its global expansion.”
Working with Datacom as the systems integration partner, Pure Storage was able to seamlessly migrate Rakon’s entire storage environment in one week, with no downtime. The solution has delivered significant efficiencies and agile capacity and performance enhancements, including:
- Up to five times faster performance speeds for ERP system record updates;
- Faster and more reliable access to core applications – the Rakon database is now operating 60 times faster;
- Through compression and deduplication improvements, Pure FlashStack enabled Rakon to almost halve its storage requirements from 80 terabytes to 44 terabytes; and
- Significant efficiency gains in accessing its Business Intelligence system – from two and a half to three and a half hours to run analysis on mission critical data, down to 45 minutes.
All these improvements have allowed Rakon’s IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives that are contributing to a thriving global business.
More information on Rakon’s deployment can be found here.
