MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Aug. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure
Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market's leading independent all-flash
data platform vendor for the cloud era, today announced that
Valley Proteins, Inc., the leader in recycling food-service waste,
has adopted a FlashStack™ converged infrastructure from Cisco
Systems and Pure Storage to host its business-critical SAP
applications.
Valley Proteins, a Winchester,
Virginia-based rendering company, transports hundreds of
millions of gallons of used cooking oil and other byproducts every
year, which enables the materials to be re-used instead of ending
up in landfills. The company uses SAP as the cornerstone of its
business, tracking materials, inventory, and vehicle location and
maintenance in real time to maximize the efficiency of its 40
processing and transfer facilities and private trucking fleet, one
of the largest in North America.
It depends on SAP for a holistic view of customer profitability,
supplier pricing, and individual factory performance, helping to
guide and expedite business decision-making.
To achieve all the benefits of a Cisco and Pure Storage
converged infrastructure (CI), Valley Proteins decided to deploy
FlashStack, which combines Pure Storage FlashArrays with Cisco UCS
servers and VMware software into a single, integrated architecture.
A fully tested and validated reference architecture for SAP on
FlashStack ensures rapid deployment, with no storage tier planning
or tuning required. Highly efficient components reduce power,
cooling, and data center costs.
"FlashStack gives us the ability to plan for the next
five-to-seven years, which fundamentally enables our ability to
pivot and grow," said Brad Wilton,
Director of Information Technology for Valley Proteins. "It's an
incredible value proposition. By helping us be more efficient with
our logistics, FlashStack directly contributes to our bottom line
and improves customer experience."
As the company pursued an aggressive growth strategy through
acquisitions, it became clear that storage had become a bottleneck
to consistent performance for SAP applications. The company's
legacy storage arrays were three years old and had become
overloaded.
"It got to the point where our storage required so much hands-on
maintenance that it was difficult for engineers to get out to our
remote sites and solve business problems," Wilton said.
Instead of another forklift storage upgrade and a lengthy,
expensive professional services engagement, Valley Proteins began
looking at all-flash storage solutions. It wanted enterprise
storage as well as a converged infrastructure that would be easy to
deploy, maintain and scale as the business grew.
For years, Valley Proteins has standardized on Cisco UCS
servers, networking and security solutions for its data center and
disaster recovery (DR) environments for a reliable, scalable and
secure infrastructure. Pure Storage all-flash arrays were paired
with Cisco UCS servers and, in a test environment, some production
workloads were moved onto the Pure arrays.
"We were impressed with the performance gains that we saw. With
Cisco UCS and all-flash storage behind SAP, we returned results at
nearly the speed of an in-memory database," Wilton said. "Our
engineer moved our entire 60TB production environment to FlashStack
in less than three days, with zero downtime to the business, and
without professional services assistance. The efficiencies gained
were incredible. Now, we run faster and simpler."
About Valley Proteins
For three generations, Valley
Proteins, Inc. traces its roots to 1949 has been a leader in
providing an invaluable service to global economies and the
environment. Through our core competencies in the recovery,
rendering and recycling of animal processing, supermarket and
foodservice waste streams, Valley Proteins sets the standard in
creating renewable resources for the development of quality animal
and pet feed ingredients.
At Valley Proteins, our business is based on the collection and
recycling of animal processing waste from the food industry that
would otherwise lead to environmental contamination. We provide
prompt disposal services to restaurants, supermarkets,
slaughterhouses and poultry processing facilities throughout the
mid-Atlantic, eastern and southwestern United States. Our clean and efficient
conversion plants recycle these waste streams (fat and bone
trimmings; waste cooking oils; meat/poultry waste) into safe,
high-energy feed fat and protein-rich meal products. These
value-added sustainable ingredients provide the nutrients feed
producers need to create high-quality animal feeds.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps
companies push the boundaries of what's possible. Pure's end-to-end
data platform - including FlashArray, FlashBlade and our converged
offering with Cisco, FlashStack – is powered by innovative software
that's cloud-connected for management from anywhere on a mobile
device and supported by the Evergreen business model. The company's
all-flash based technology, combined with its customer-friendly
business model, drives business and IT transformation with
solutions that are effortless, efficient and evergreen. With Pure's
industry leading Satmetrix-certified NPS score of 83.7, Pure
customers are some of the happiest in the world, and include
organizations of all sizes, across an ever-expanding range of
industries.
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