Case Study: Owens Corning achieves flash‑accelerated SAP performance and a 75% reduction in refresh time with Hitachi Vantara

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

Owens Corning, a global Fortune 500 manufacturer with a fully virtualized SAP environment supporting customer-facing operations 24/7, needed faster, more reliable storage to support its Customer Experience Transformation (CET) initiative. Facing massive, complex SAP workloads across two data centers and stringent uptime and automation requirements, Owens Corning turned to Hitachi Vantara to find flash-accelerated storage and tools that could deliver consistent, low-latency performance for mission-critical systems.

Hitachi Vantara implemented Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) with Hitachi Accelerated Flash and management software (including Hitachi Dynamic Tiering, Tuning Manager and ShadowImage), plus replication and SAN migration services across Toledo and Granville. The Hitachi Vantara solution delivered dramatic gains—up to 100% performance improvements in some workloads—cut SAP refresh time by 75% (from ~4 days to 1 day), reduced failover times from days to hours, preserved continuous availability with zero downtime, and produced six-figure operational savings.

Owens Corning

Dean Barley

Service Delivery Manager/Project Manager