Case Study: BPL Global eliminates latency and slashes storage management with Pure Storage

Managing Infrastructure to Support a Global Network of Specialist Brokers

BPL Global, a London‑based specialist broker in credit and political risk insurance, was struggling with latency and performance problems from its aging spinning‑disk storage as mailboxes and shared public folders grew alongside the business. Rising data volumes and slow server‑client response forced IT staff to spend significant time troubleshooting rather than developing customer‑facing applications.

The company deployed three Pure Storage FlashArrays (two for 45 VMs and one for snapshots/replication), gaining active‑active redundancy, >4:1 data reduction and a 20–25x performance boost. As a result, storage administration fell by about 80%, volume provisioning dropped from hours to seconds, email data doubled with no latency, storage life extended up to seven years, and the IT team can now focus on rebuilding applications and rolling out a VDI for 120 desktops.

BPL Global

Adam Koleda

Director of IT