Blount International increases speed, capacity and gains SAP HANA certification
Challenge
SAP enterprise applications run Blount’s core business. As the databases grew, process times extended. Development teams encountered excessive operational 
delays. Applications were sluggish. One currency conversion operation regularly stretched for five days. Their hybrid storage arrays just couldn’t keep up. In addition, storage capacity had nearly run out. Their expected transition to SAP HANA would require storage certification that placed added urgency on changing their storage infrastructure.
Results
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Performance increased for SAP and all other applications
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SAP Currency Conversion operation reduced from 5 days to 3.5 hrs.
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DB restores in ten minutes, down from five hours
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Non-disruptive scale-up, scale-out
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Simplified management
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Assured seven-year maintenance pricing & guaranteed drive replacement
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Power is 120v compatible
