Case Study: Owens Corning achieves faster, always-on customer experiences with Hitachi Data Systems

Owens Corning Transforms Customer Experiences With Precision Performance From Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Owens Corning, the manufacturing company behind fiberglass products and a global SAP-heavy operation, needed to transform customer experience and improve the speed, reliability, and responsiveness of its 24/7 IT environment. As it expanded mission-critical SAP systems across two Ohio data centers, it looked for a storage platform that could support faster transactions, high availability, and disaster recovery.

Hitachi Data Systems implemented a solution built on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, along with Hitachi Dynamic Tiering, Hitachi Tuning Manager, and Hitachi ShadowImage Heterogeneous Replication, plus migration and implementation services. The result was a 75% reduction in refresh time, failover measured in hours instead of days, zero downtime, and six-figure savings, with some workloads seeing performance gains of up to 100%.

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