Case Study: Coop Group achieves up to 10x faster response times and 3x faster overnight batch jobs with Hitachi Vantara all‑flash storage

Coop Group Cures Growing Pains with Super-Fast Hitachi All-Flash Storage Solution

Coop, a major Swiss retail and wholesale group facing roughly 30% annual data growth, was seeing mission-critical applications and nightly batch jobs threatened by its aging, hybrid storage platform. To prevent performance degradation and simplify storage allocation, Coop turned to Hitachi Vantara and its all‑flash storage technology, choosing Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 systems (with Hitachi Accelerated Flash and Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System) to meet rising demand.

Hitachi Vantara deployed VSP G1000 all‑flash arrays across Coop’s twin data centers and migrated all mission‑critical data during business hours with zero downtime in three weeks. The Hitachi Vantara solution cut response times by up to 10× (some apps now under 1 ms), made overnight batch jobs three times faster, reduced the infrastructure footprint by 60%, and delivered about one third more capacity — restoring predictable performance and freeing the storage team to focus on higher‑value work.

Coop

Roman Feigenwinter

Storage Team Leader