Case Study: Under Armour achieves dependable, high-performance data access and 100% uptime with Dell Technologies

Pumping up data reliability and access with innovative digital transformation

Under Armour, a leading athletic performance brand, faced unreliable, fast-growing storage and backup environments that strained a small IT team and threatened access to mission‑critical data. To address these challenges they standardized on Dell Technologies solutions, including Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA), Dell EMC Isilon scale‑out NAS, Dell EMC VMAX All Flash, Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure and VMware.

Dell Technologies implemented an integrated, replicated infrastructure protecting 300 applications and 1,000 virtual machines across two data centers, delivering faster, more reliable backups and cloud-ready protection. The deployment achieved a 97% data reduction on two petabytes of backups, sustained 100% uptime for the business, sped business insights and freed IT time for innovation.

Under Armour

Nicolas Hennessy

Senior Manager, Compute and Storage