Case Study: Leading Investment Firm boosts SQL Server performance with Pavilion Data Systems

Wall Street Hedge Fund Addresses Highly Competitive Transactions with SQL Server for Windows

Leading Investment Firm, a $20B+ assets-under-management Wall Street hedge fund, needed to modernize its storage environment for SQL Server analytics. Its existing direct-attached storage/JBOF setup delivered strong performance but created storage silos, limited scalability, consumed too many CPU cycles, and was costly to manage.

The firm chose the Pavilion HyperParallel Data Platform from Pavilion Data Systems, using NVMe-oF/RoCE to move to a shared, next-generation storage architecture. With Pavilion Data Systems, the customer improved SQL Server application performance by over 10%, recovered 30% of CPU utilization, cut storage management costs by up to 50%, and greatly simplified storage scaling while maintaining ultra-low latency and high throughput.