Case Study: SoftBank achieves higher VDI performance and offers new DaaS services with Pure Storage

SoftBank Boosts Performance and Operational Efficiency with Pure Storage

SoftBank Corp., a major Japan-based telecommunications company with a large corporate group and over 60,000 employees, needed to scale and stabilize one of the country’s largest Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments to support a company-wide work-style innovation program and growing customer demands. Persistent storage bottlenecks threatened user experience, operational agility, and the ability to turn internal VDI expertise into new desktop-as-a-service offerings.

SoftBank migrated its VDI onto Pure Storage all-flash arrays (deployed FlashArray models) running VMware Horizon with linked clones, gaining inline deduplication and compression that cut stored data to one-eighth and halved rack and power requirements. The move delivered much faster I/O, reduced master-image recreation time to a quarter of previous effort, and enabled the December 2015 launch of the White Cloud Desktop Service—helping SoftBank support 30,000+ users and expand cloud-based desktop services for customers.

SoftBank

Toshio Takeuchi

Head of Service Promotion Office