Case Study: Southwest Traders achieves 24x7 uptime and cost savings with Zumasys Cloud

Southwest Traders Keeps on Trucking with the Zumasys Cloud

Southwest Traders, a 325‑employee regional food distributor based in Temecula, CA, runs a 24x7 operation across 17 states and depends on its Mark Information System ERP for inventory, warehouse and order processing. With nearly 10‑year‑old servers, frequent component failures, high refresh costs (an IBM Power Series 7 with new storage was estimated north of $100K) and tight customer downtime tolerances, Southwest Traders needed a more reliable, cost‑effective infrastructure—so they chose the Zumasys Cloud.

Zumasys migrated Southwest Traders’ ERP and web services into a managed virtual data center in the SUPERNAP facility, delivering an SLA-backed environment, pay‑per‑use pricing and ongoing support. Since moving to Zumasys in June 2014, Southwest Traders reports significantly improved throughput and performance, much greater availability (protecting customer relationships that cannot tolerate more than four hours offline), and reduced capital expense—freeing cash that would otherwise have funded costly hardware refreshes.

Southwest Traders

Daniel Ruckel

IT Director