Case Study: Princeton Pharmatech achieves 10x read performance, 3x writes and up to 50% storage reduction with Maxta MxSP hyperconvergence

Maxta Prescribes Hyperconvergence with Superior Support for Big Pharma Research Specialist

Princeton Pharmatech, a specialized contract research organization providing clinical biostatistics and SAS programming services, was struggling with slow storage performance and network issues after adding VMware to servers attached to a Fibre Channel SAN—problems that threatened its ability to support I/O‑intensive SAS workloads. For its hardware refresh the company evaluated hyperconverged options and selected Maxta, deploying Maxta MxSP software to replace the legacy SAN approach.

Maxta implemented an MxSP‑based hyperconverged cluster on three 1U Supermicro servers (SSD + HDD + 10GbE) and redundant 10GbE switching, delivering a tenfold increase in read performance, 3x write improvement, and a 40–50% reduction in stored data. The Maxta solution also simplified management, supported Princeton Pharmatech’s SAS, Windows and Java workloads, avoided costly proprietary appliances, and was backed by highly responsive Maxta support during the transition.

Princeton Pharmatech

Liviu Elama

company partner, infrastructure architect