Case Study: Fabick Cat achieves cost-effective flexibility and up to 25% performance gains with Dell EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure

EMC VSPEX provides cost-effective performance and flexibility

Fabick Cat, a John Fabick Tractor Company dealer with 14 locations and more than 550 employees, faced fragmented storage that couldn’t be managed as a single pool and projected IO requirements more than triple its existing capabilities. After a procurement process, Fabick Cat selected Dell EMC’s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure—deploying EMC VNX unified storage with the EMC FAST Suite, Cisco UCS blade servers and Microsoft Hyper-V—to consolidate and modernize its infrastructure.

Dell EMC’s VSPEX solution consolidated Fabick Cat’s storage onto VNX (with a FLASH‑first mix of Flash and high‑capacity drives and FAST caching/tiering), upgraded networking/compute, and virtualized 94% of the environment with Hyper‑V. The deployment delivered measured benefits: performance gains of roughly 9–25% (up to 25%), a platform 30% more cost‑effective than the nearest competitor, a 78% reduction in software virtualization costs, zero downtime since deployment, and easy scalability (already adding 20 TB), significantly lowering TCO and improving Microsoft application performance.

Fabick Cat

Bob Lambrecht

Director of IT