As database demands rapidly increased, Epicor partnered with Advania to modernise its storage infrastructure and ensure its systems could support growing global workloads.
🔎At a glance
- Global enterprise software provider
- Large global database environment
- Legacy HPE 3PAR storage infrastructure
🚨The challenge
Epicor’s databases had grown rapidly, frequently exceeding 1TB per database, placing heavy strain on the organisation’s ageing storage platform.
Key issues included:
- Storage systems approaching capacity limits
- Increased troubleshooting demands
- Ageing infrastructure unable to scale efficiently
- Need to support future global business growth
The organisation needed a new storage architecture capable of handling large workloads while maintaining performance.
💡The approach
Advania worked with Epicor to evaluate modern storage platforms.
The project included:
- Infrastructure assessment and discovery workshops
- Evaluation of multiple storage options including HPE 3PAR, Nimble, and Pure Storage
- Predictive analytics using HPE InfoSight
- Deployment of a 150TB HPE Nimble hybrid storage array
- Switch fabric upgrade from 8GB to 16GB
- Migration planning and infrastructure services
☑️The outcome
- 10x faster storage performance
- Capacity for rapidly growing databases
- Simplified infrastructure management
- Platform ready to support long-term global growth
⚡️Why this matters
As organisations generate larger volumes of data, scalable storage infrastructure becomes essential. Modern storage platforms provide the performance, reliability, and capacity needed to support data-driven operations.
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