Impressive Cost Savings and Performance Gains with Storage Upgrade

This case study explores how a global brand used IBM FlashSystem 5200 to cut costs and boost performance in their data center. They faced high maintenance costs, power consumption, and a large storage footprint with their IBM V7000 Gen2 arrays.

Covenco, an IBM partner, suggested replacing these with FlashSystem 5200 arrays, achieving:

• Cost-neutral replacement in 18 months, 80% lower maintenance costs after 3 years
• Power use cut from 4,351 to 886 watts per hour, saving 189,400 kWh over 4 years
• CO2 emissions reduced by 99 tons, equal to planting 1,150 trees
• Storage footprint cut from 32U to 2U
• IOPS rose to 797,710, latency dropped to 0.1ms

See how IT upgrades enhance efficiency.