Case Study: Pacific Star Foodservice achieves always-on operations, 50% lower storage costs and 4x capacity utilization with DataCore Software

Pacific Star - Customer Case Study

Pacific Star, a Guadalajara‑based food service distributor with four distribution centers, faced the challenge of managing mixed physical and virtual environments that must run 24x7 (supporting SAP, WMS and other critical systems), improving storage orchestration, automating routine tasks, and ensuring disaster recovery and high availability. To address this, Pacific Star engaged DataCore Software and deployed its Software‑Defined Storage platform, SANsymphony‑V.

DataCore Software virtualized and pooled Pacific Star’s heterogeneous storage, added infrastructure‑wide caching and auto‑tiering, and deployed synchronous mirroring for continuous availability. The result: at least a 50% reduction in storage costs, a roughly 4x increase in capacity utilization, elimination of storage‑related downtime, faster application performance, and significantly less time spent on routine storage tasks while supporting 60 virtual servers and 10 hosts.

Pacific Star

Juan Carlos Cedillo

CIO