Case Study: Burson Automotive achieves quadrupled performance and scalable, cost-saving infrastructure with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Burson Automotive Handles Growth with Scalable Infrastructure

Burson Automotive, a national automotive parts retailer, faced rapidly accelerating growth (from about 112 stores with plans for 175+) that its aging IT infrastructure could no longer support. To avoid repeated short-term upgrades, Burson chose Hewlett Packard Enterprise and its HP-UX based blade architecture—including an HPE BladeSystem c7000, HPE Integrity BL870c servers and HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7450 flash storage—to provide a stable, scalable platform for its MomentumPro ERP and Progress database.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise designed and implemented the new blade and all‑flash storage solution, enabling consolidation, parallel testing and a low‑impact cutover. The result: performance quadrupled (overnight batch windows fell from eight–nine hours to about two), user response and CPU headroom improved (CPU down from near 99% to ~15%), racks shrank from eight to two, disaster‑recovery capacity rose to about 90%, and total cost of ownership dropped with a 15‑month hardware payback and lower operating expenditure.

Burson Automotive

Leon Rawlins

Business Systems Manager