Case Study: Crossflight achieves 20% performance improvement and 50% reduction in power and cooling costs with Dell EMC VNX

Crossflight - Customer Case Study

Crossflight, the UK’s leading independent express courier and logistics provider, faced aging storage systems that had reached their limits and lacked the VMware support required to maintain high data availability and transaction performance. To address these challenges, Crossflight evaluated multiple vendors and selected Dell EMC, deploying EMC VNX along with EMC Local Protection Suite and VMware vSphere to modernize its storage and virtualization stack.

Dell EMC implemented the VNX solution integrated with VMware vSphere and Unisphere management, enabling rapid three-day deployment and seamless data/VM migration with no downtime. The solution delivered measurable benefits: a 20% performance improvement, roughly 50% reduction in power and cooling consumption (about £500/year saved), faster VM provisioning and snapshots, the ability to move live VMs between arrays in seconds, and lower overall TCO and maintenance overhead.

Crossflight

Guy Dawson

IT Manager