Case Study: Room & Board achieves dramatic application performance and operational efficiency with Pure Storage

Room & Board Furnishes a Business Operations Makeover with Pure Storage

Room & Board, a U.S.-focused retail furniture company with 14 stores and a growing e-commerce business, was hitting performance limits as its legacy spinning-disk storage strained under heavy SAP, Citrix and reporting workloads. Slow I/O caused routine SAP queries and large reports to impact users across the company and forced IT to schedule jobs to avoid system slowdowns.

After a head-to-head test, the company moved to Pure Storage all-flash arrays, migrating all production apps in about 40 days. The arrays recovered instantly from simulated failures, eliminated SAP bottlenecks, and cut key run times dramatically: an overnight delivery scheduler dropped from 5–7 hours to under 2, four daily sales reports went from ~1 hour to under 2 minutes, Citrix logins fell from 38s to 14s, and data reduction reached about 16:1—while allowing IT to maintain the same headcount and budget and giving the company headroom for future initiatives like SAP HANA and streamlined disaster recovery.

Room & Board

Shawn O’Brien

Director of IT