Case Study: QNET achieves 55% faster compensation processing and reduced rack space with Pure Storage FlashArray

QNET Gains Significant Improvement in Storage Performance with Pure Storage

QNET, a Hong Kong–based e-commerce and direct‑sales arm of QI Group with more than five million distributors worldwide, was struggling with a legacy spinning‑disk storage system that could not keep up with constant order activity and a critical commission‑calculation database. The aging platform caused severe I/O bottlenecks and lengthy processing windows—commission runs took about 30 hours—and prevented full use of new ERP and e‑commerce functionality.

QNET deployed a Pure Storage FlashArray, which eliminated the I/O constraints and shrank effective storage from 15 TB to about 3 TB (reducing rack space from 1.5 racks to 5U). Commission processing time dropped to under 15 hours (a >55% improvement), routine database maintenance can be done more frequently, management overhead and operating costs fell, and the company gained scalable, easier‑to‑manage storage to support future growth.

QNET

Henry Lai

Head of IT Data Management