Case Study: Via Varejo achieves Black Friday reliability and scalable performance with Cisco HyperFlex

Via Varejo Online Gains Agility and Scalability on Black Friday with Cisco

Via Varejo Online, the e‑commerce business unit of GPA that runs Extra.com.br, Pontofrio.com and Casasbahia.com.br, faced a critical challenge: Black Friday traffic causes a roughly 400% spike in simultaneous connections and requests, and the team needed better scalability, lower latency and guaranteed availability. To meet these requirements they evaluated and selected Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure.

Cisco HyperFlex was installed on the eve of Black Friday (the simple rack‑mount installation took only a few hours and initially ran on three nodes), enabling Via Varejo to reliably handle the highest traffic day of the year without incidents and withstand large VM read/write spikes. The Cisco HyperFlex rollout increased processing power, freed physical data‑center space, simplified expansion across duplicated data areas, and delivered measurable resilience during the 400% traffic surge.

Via Varejo

Alexandre Nascimento

IT Architect