Case Study: Square Enix achieves dramatically higher performance and availability with Pure Storage FlashBlade

Square Enix - Customer Case Study

Square Enix, a global developer and publisher best known for franchises like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, needed higher performance and capacity to support its increasingly complex development and online-service environments. Its legacy disk‑based NFS storage had reached limits: growing archive logs forced time‑consuming compression and constrained log analysis, prompting the IT team to seek a more flexible, higher‑performance shared storage solution.

Square Enix became Japan’s first adopter of Pure Storage FlashBlade, replacing the legacy system and achieving dramatically higher throughput (evaluations couldn’t reach FlashBlade’s limits), simplified management, and non‑disruptive software upgrades that reduced upgrade downtime from roughly 30 minutes to near zero. The result was improved availability, lower maintenance impact, attractive ROI, and plans to expand FlashBlade across other mission‑critical workloads.

Square Enix

Hironobu Murakami

Assistant Group Manager and Technical Specialist