TechValidate Research on Acme Systems B7500


Case Study: Fortune 500 Food Company

Introduction

This case study of Hormel Foods Corporation, Inc. is based on a May 2014 survey of Acme Systems B7500 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Acme Systems enabled us to meet our tremendous storage growth requirements while still hitting our infrastructure budget spending targets.”

Challenges

  • Solved the following operational challenges with their Acme Systems B7500:
    • Improved disaster recovery
    • Improved data protection of critical corporate information
    • Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
    • Met regulatory compliance standards
  • Cited that the top reasons for purchasing their Acme Systems B7500 were to:
    • Meet compliance regulations
    • Meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs
    • Achieve better management economies of scale

Use Case

  • Deployed their Acme Systems B7500 in conjunction with the following applications:
    • IBM DB2 databases
    • ECommerce application
    • SAP
  • Deployed the following operating system hosts in their environment:
    • Red Hat Linux
    • HP-UX
    • Sun Solaris

Results

  • Selected their Acme Systems B7500 after evaluating the following vendors:
    • IBM
    • Cisco
    • Oracle
    • Dell
  • Rated the differentiation of Acme’s capabilities as follows:
    • Scalability: Extremely Differentiated
    • Performance: Differentiated
    • Ease of use: Differentiated
    • Reliability: Differentiated
  • Achieved a payback period of 9 months.
  • Reduced their IT infrastructure Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) by 25% to 49%.
  • Increased the productivity of their IT staff by 50% to 74% with their Acme Systems B7500.




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