Case Study: RCR Tomlinson achieves 9X faster SAP archiving and major virtualization performance gains with SanDisk Fusion ioMemory

Rcr Tomlinson Crushes Performance For Microsoft Sharepoint, Exchange And Sql Server With Fusion Iomemory Solutions

RCR Tomlinson, a leading Australian engineering solutions provider serving mining, energy and resources across the Asia Pacific, needed to consolidate a diverse set of mission‑critical workloads into a single, highly virtualized blade environment. With limited hardware, unpredictable I/O from applications like SAP, SharePoint and CAD tools, and a requirement for high availability, the IT team sought a solution that would deliver consistent end‑user performance, maximize infrastructure efficiency and support seamless upgrades and migrations.

RCR deployed SanDisk Fusion ioMemory (ioDrive) cards in its Hyper‑V blade servers to accelerate I/O-intensive VMs. The result was dramatic: 9× faster SAP OpenText archiving, 5× faster large purchasing reports, 3× the concurrent SharePoint users, faster Live Migration and seamless upgrades — enabling higher VM density, better CPU utilization and lower infrastructure costs while maintaining high availability for mission‑critical applications.

RCR Tomlinson

Stacey Squire

ITC Infrastructure Manager