Case Study: Geographic Solutions achieves near-real-time reporting and SLA compliance with Pure Storage

Geographic Solutions Deploys Pure for its SaaS Offering

Geographic Solutions is a SaaS provider that supplies labor‑market, case‑management and reporting applications to state and local governments. As its spinning‑disk storage hit capacity and performance limits across two co‑located data centers, report generation slowed, SLAs were harder to meet, and storage footprint and operating costs kept growing—while the company lacked a dedicated storage administrator to manage the pain points.

After a proof‑of‑concept with Trace3, Geographic Solutions deployed Pure Storage all‑flash arrays (initial FA‑420s, later upgraded to //m70). Database response times fell from ~15–20 ms to ~0.5 ms, batch and report runtimes improved 25–70% (reports up to 70% faster), and data reduction averaged 4.2:1 (up to 8:1). The result: faster, near‑real‑time reporting, easier SLA compliance, lower operating costs, seamless upgrades with no downtime, and freed IT capacity for QA, backups and additional database copies.

Geographic Solutions

Ray Nichols

Senior Database Administrator