Case Study: Valley Proteins achieves near in‑memory SAP performance and faster financial close with Pure Storage FlashStack

Valley Proteins - Customer Case Study

Valley Proteins, a Winchester, VA–based renderer that collects and processes hundreds of millions of gallons of used cooking oil and other byproducts across 40 facilities, relies on SAP to track materials, inventory and fleet operations. Rapid growth through acquisitions exposed its legacy storage as a performance bottleneck: arrays were becoming overloaded, required frequent three‑year forklift upgrades, and consumed engineers’ time with constant workload rebalancing, limiting IT’s ability to support the business.

The company deployed FlashStack — Pure Storage FlashArrays integrated with its existing Cisco UCS servers and VMware — migrating 60 TB of production in under three days with zero downtime. The new converged all‑flash infrastructure delivered near in‑memory performance for SAP, accelerated monthly financial closes and reporting, sped replication and DR with FlashRecover, shrank data‑center footprint, cut ERP refresh time by 90%, and freed IT to be more strategic while providing scalable, long‑term capacity for future growth.

Valley Proteins

Brad Wilton

IT Director