Case Study: Peter Cremer North America achieves scalable, high-performance storage and reliable business continuity with VMware vSAN

Peter Cremer Transforms Data Storage and Business Continuity with VMware Solution

Peter Cremer North America, a Cincinnati-based supplier of oleochemicals, faced rapid growth that pushed storage to 98% capacity, aging servers that threatened costly outages, and rising customer demands for failsafe business continuity. To address these challenges, Peter Cremer engaged Appica’s AppBlock service built around VMware technologies — including VMware vSAN (Virtual SAN), VMware vSphere Replication, and VMware vSphere Data Protection.

Using the AppBlock implementation based on VMware vSAN and other VMware solutions, Peter Cremer moved to a hyper‑converged virtualized infrastructure with 12 TB of virtual storage (scalable to quickly double), faster mission‑critical performance, reliable managed backups, and rapid failover. The upgrade cut business‑intelligence query and report times from about 15 minutes to seconds, improved uptime and employee productivity, enabled quick disaster recovery without data loss, and turned IT into a competitive differentiator.

Peter Cremer North America

Steve Taylor

IT Manager