Saphety reduces batch processes by 12X, from 24 hours down to fewer
than two hours
Company Website:
http://www.violin-memory.com
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- (Business Wire)
Violin
Memory®, Inc., (NYSE:VMEM) a leading provider of award-winning
all-flash storage arrays and appliances delivering application solutions
for the enterprise, was selected by Saphety as the company’s storage of
choice in a virtualized, data-intensive environment, through Violin
channel partner Fujitsu Technology Solutions Portugal S.A. The Saphety
portfolio of purchase-to-pay solutions, process optimization, and data
and media synchronization allows for the exchange of electronic and
automated business processes between organizations and clients.
Part of the Sonae Group, Saphety provides value to more than 6,800
customers and 50,000 users in 20 countries by offering electronic-based
business solutions at competitive service levels that deliver 99.999
availability. However, immense business and clientele growth became a
challenge for Saphety’s existing hard disk drive-based subsystems.
Customer service levels were impacted and infrastructure consolidation
and the rollout of new services were delayed.
“Further impacting our IT processes, and the ability of our database
team to meet business SLAs, was that our database administrators were
continually spending time managing and tuning applications due to the
poor performance of our existing storage rather than focusing on their
critical tasks at hand,” said João Sousa, IT Manager at Saphety. “The
storage bottleneck was affecting all aspects of our business and
operations.”
Saphety’s infrastructure utilizes a number of different database
technologies, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL and MySQL. In an effort to
improve manageability and drive consolidation, Saphety planned to move
the database servers and other physical servers to a VMware virtualized
environment. Migration was delayed due to constraints in the existing
storage and Saphety could not add more servers or services.
“We had experienced first-hand the benefits of Violin with
companies facing similar issues and we knew that Saphety’s challenges
would be addressed with Violin all-flash arrays,” said Pedro Pinto,
Storage Business Development manager at Fujitsu.
Saphety saw drastic improvements using the Violin solution. Processes,
such as reporting, that had taken 24 hours to complete, now finish 12X
faster in fewer than two hours. With the legacy hard disk drive-based
subsystems, Saphety experienced latencies ranging from 15 to 40
milliseconds. With the Violin® 6264 all-flash array, average latency was
dramatically reduced to only 0.2 to 0.3 milliseconds.
With its storage performance challenges resolved, Saphety was able to
proceed with the planned migration to a VMware environment. In addition
to solving the performance and scalability challenges that had prevented
the migration to VMware, Saphety was also able to consolidate its
physical server farm by more than 2X, lowering physical server count
from 21 servers down to 9 physical servers. Commensurate with this
reduction in physical server infrastructure, Saphety achieved
significant cost savings in power, cooling, and floor space, as well as
application licensing, on-going maintenance, and IT server management
savings.
“At Violin, our customers have continually demonstrated the business
value of Violin all-flash solutions and how we help our customers
transform the economics of their data center,” said Eric Herzog, CMO and
SVP of Alliances at Violin Memory. “Saphety is another clear case
illustrating both the business advantage, technical benefits, and return
on investment that Violin flash arrays deliver.”
The Violin family of award-winning all flash solutions will be featured
globally at:
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Storage Decisions, being held November 3 – 4 at the Hilton Midtown,
New York, NY
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Dell World 2014, being held November 4 – 7 at the Austin Convention
Center, Austin, TX
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Microsoft PASS Summit 2014, being held November 4 – 7 at the
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
For a complete list of where Violin’s all-flash solutions can be seen
over the next few months, please visit us at – http://www.violin-memory.com/news/events/.
About Violin Memory
Business in a Flash. Violin Memory transforms the speed of
business with high performance, always available, low cost management of
critical business information and applications. Violin’s All Flash
optimized solutions accelerate breakthrough CAPEX and OPEX savings for
building the next generation data center. Violin’s Flash Fabric
Architecture™ (FFA) speeds data delivery with chip-to-chassis
performance optimization that achieves lower consistent latency and cost
per transaction for Cloud, Enterprise and Virtualized mission-critical
applications. Violin's All Flash Arrays and Appliances, and enterprise
data management software solutions enhance agility and mobility while
revolutionizing data center economics. Founded in 2005, Violin Memory is
headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit www.violin-memory.com.
Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/violinmemory.
About Saphety
Saphety offers solutions that allow paper-free, simple and automated
business processes between organizations. This is accomplished in a
secure, reliable, efficient, and economic way in accordance with the
legal framework in force. Saphety is a leading company in
purchase-to-pay solutions, process optimization, data and media
synchronization for GS1 MO’s worldwide. With more than 6.800 customers
and 50.000 users over 20 countries, Saphety is owned by the largest
non-financial Portuguese group - Sonae Group - which has more than
40,000 employees in 66 countries. Apart from IT and Telecommunications,
the Sonae Group also conducts business in Retail, Real Estate and
Industry amongst other areas. With presence in Europe, Latin America,
Africa and Asia, through local offices or local partnerships, we
develop, implement and support our own software solutions.
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Violin Memory Forward-looking Statement
This public announcement contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including statements with respect to: (1) the possible results and
economic benefits that customers and others may realize by using Violin
Memory’s products; and (2) Violin Memory’s business plans and strategy.
There are a significant number of risks and uncertainties that could
affect Violin Memory's business performance and financial results,
including those set forthunder the captions "Risk Factors" and
"Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations," in Violin Memory's annual report on Form 10-Q,which
was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and which is
available on the Violin Memory's investor relations website at investor.violin-memory.com and
on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
All forward-looking statements in this public announcement are based on
information available to Violin Memory as of the date hereof, and Violin
Memory does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking
statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that
exist after the date on which they were made.
Contacts:
US Press Contact:
Eastwick Communications
Jayne Scuncio,
415-820-4164
violin@eastwick.com
or
EMEA
Press Contact:
A3 Communications
Federica Monsone, +44 (0)
1252.875.203
Fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk
Source: Violin Memory, Inc.
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