Case Study: Ganahl Lumber eliminates downtime, triples IT capacity and saves $1M with Zumasys

California’s oldest lumber company leverages state-of-the-art data center technology

Ganahl Lumber, California’s oldest lumber company, needed a responsive, full‑service local technology partner to tie its MultiValue ERP (Rocket D3 AIX) to a modern, resilient infrastructure as the company grew through acquisitions. They chose Zumasys for its combined MultiValue programming expertise and infrastructure services, including application hosting and cloud support.

Zumasys designed and built two fully redundant on‑campus data centers, deployed NetApp MetroCluster mirroring, VMware/Cisco UCS server virtualization, Citrix VDI and thin clients, and hosted Ganahl’s Exchange and applications in the Zumasys Cloud while delivering custom Rocket D3 AIX programming and mobile data‑capture solutions. The result: transparent failover and significantly reduced unplanned downtime, decommissioning of over 250 workstations, tripled IT capacity without adding staff, real‑time mobile access to ERP data, and more than $1M saved over four years.

Ganahl Lumber

Gary Armstrong

Director of IT