Case Study: North Texas Food Bank achieves up to 90% faster reporting and streamlined supply-chain operations with Pure Storage FlashArray

North Texas Food Bank Delivers 62 Million Meals a Year

North Texas Food Bank, which serves a 13‑county area and delivers about 170,000 meals per day (roughly 62 million a year) through 250 partner agencies, relied on a small IT team of three to keep its Microsoft Dynamics ERP and SQL databases running. Aging storage had become a bottleneck—causing slow performance, email outages and multi‑hour nightly and month‑end processing windows—and prevented the organization from adding reports needed to better target services.

The food bank deployed a Pure Storage FlashArray (with support from the Pure Foundation) and saw immediate gains: setup and management became simple, user complaints disappeared, and nightly ERP updates fell from 4 hours 15 minutes to 38 minutes (85% faster) while month‑end financial processing dropped from 6–8 hours to 38 minutes (up to 90% faster). Additional benefits include 5:1 data compression, a dedicated SQL server for research, reduced storage admin time (from ~15% to ~1%), and a longer storage lifecycle via Pure’s Evergreen program—freeing staff to focus on mission‑critical work.

North Texas Food Bank

Mike Wood

Senior Systems Manager