Case Study: Outdoor Retailer achieves 96% faster reporting with SanDisk Fusion ioMemory PCIe storage

Leading Specialty Retailer Supports A Growing Number Of Stores Through Cisco Ucs And Fusion Iomemory Pcie Solutions From Sandisk

A leading specialty outdoor retailer with more than 65 stores in the U.S. and Canada and a growing e‑commerce business struggled with a fragmented Oracle infrastructure that made updates slow, reporting unreliable, and seasonal scaling difficult. Nightly analytics queries could take up to 50 minutes, updates sometimes required a month, and IT teams spent excessive time on maintenance while the data centers lacked room to expand.

By standardizing on Cisco UCS servers and Fusion ioMemory PCIe flash storage from SanDisk, the retailer accelerated reporting, simplified management, and consolidated its footprint. Query times dropped from 50 minutes to 2 minutes (96% faster), update time fell from a month to about 20 minutes, 22 servers were consolidated into 7, and the company achieved better SLA compliance, lower power/cooling costs, and faster, more reliable business intelligence for executives.

Outdoor Retailer