Case Study: Umbra achieves blazing-fast storage and 400% faster reporting with Dell Technologies PowerMax

Blazing fast storage array meets the challenges of a changing world

Umbra, a Toronto-based home design company selling in 75,000 stores across 125 countries, was rapidly outgrowing its aging IT infrastructure as e-commerce and order volumes surged. To modernize storage and support critical SAP, MySQL, VDI and PLM workloads, Umbra partnered with Dell Technologies and deployed Dell EMC PowerMax (alongside Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and Dell Technologies Boomi).

Dell Technologies implemented the PowerMax platform with end-to-end NVMe and Intel Optane SCM drives, delivering dramatic performance and efficiency gains: 400% faster production of key reports and SAP processes (reducing some jobs from up to two hours to about 30 minutes), 500% faster SAP BW updates, a 3.4:1 data reduction ratio, and robust 24x7 resilience—improving user responsiveness, order fulfillment and reducing storage needs and management effort.

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Tariq Jamal

Vice President of Analytics and CIO