Case Study: TTX Company achieves real-time railcar tracking and eliminates storage bottlenecks with Pure Storage

Pure Storage and Rubrik Keep TTX on Track to Optimize Railcar Pooling Operations

TTX Company, a North American railcar‑pooling operator that manages more than 230,000 railcars for nine railroads, relied on its in‑house Unified Fleet Distribution (UFD) SQL Server application to track railcars in near real‑time. High I/O and more than a million messages a day exposed storage as a persistent bottleneck—causing delayed updates of hours at times—and initial attempts to patch the problem with hybrid and early flash arrays proved unreliable and operationally costly.

TTX moved its critical databases and applications onto Pure Storage FlashArray and standardized backups with Rubrik, enabling a seamless, enterprise‑scale all‑flash environment and simplified data protection with cloud archiving. The change eliminated storage‑related delays, supported an active/active data‑center strategy, drastically reduced backup and recovery windows, let a small IT team manage storage easily, and allowed heavy BI workloads to run without impacting production performance.

TTX Company

Chad Plemons

Director of Digital Operations