Case Study: FICO achieves accelerated time-to-market and 10x faster batch runs with NetApp SolidFire all-flash storage

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FICO, a global leader in analytics best known for the FICO credit score, shifted to a service-based SaaS model with the FICO Analytic Cloud to reach broader markets. The company faced demanding storage challenges—high‑I/O analytic workloads, mixed OpenStack and VMware environments, strict SLAs, and the need for faster, easier provisioning and lower-latency performance to support both customer and internal applications.

FICO adopted NetApp SolidFire all‑flash, scale‑out storage integrated with OpenStack and VMware, leveraging QoS, simple APIs, and rapid cluster provisioning to guarantee performance and multitenant isolation. The results: batch jobs dropped from 10 hours to 1 hour, VMware latency as low as 2.1 ms, dramatic VDI deduplication (~78%), faster deployments, improved density and scalability, and accelerated time‑to‑market for new analytics services.

FICO

Mike Trkay

Vice President of Global Technology Services