Case Study: Avnet achieves near 100x faster analytics with IBM dashDB

Serving up insight to customers faster than ever with data analytics and warehousing in the cloud

Avnet, a technology solutions provider, faced the challenge of delivering rapid data analytics to its managed services clients while needing to keep associated costs low. Their previous hosted environment was not providing the desired performance and flexibility, prompting them to seek a new solution from vendor IBM.

IBM implemented its dashDB data warehousing and analytics service on the SoftLayer cloud. This solution provided a nearly 100-times performance boost for analytics queries, significantly cutting report times from minutes to seconds. The fully managed service also freed Avnet's resources and delivered significant cost savings, allowing them to focus on developing higher-value solutions for their customers.

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Ted Johnson

Director of Infrastructure