Real-Time Data Compression for Manufacturing Firms

Among all the data challenges you face as manufacturers, one of the biggest is to create a real-time supply chain information system where applications used by global business units, customers and partners have instant access to information. Firms of all sizes are investing huge sums of money in solutions from Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and others. If you want a real-time information system, built on substantial numbers of TBs worth of data, you need a real-time compression solution to get the most value from it.

Here are four ways IBM Storwize appliances helps manufacturing firms get the most from their storage infrastructure:

Compresses data in real time without performance degradation.
Increases your NAS disk capacity by up to 80 percent.
Increases the efficiency of your secondary data operations like backup, replication and deduplication by applying IBM Storwize's patented Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) technology in primary storage operations.
Enhances the ROI of your supply chain investments by redistributing power cycles that Storwize saves to other applications.

Field Findings:

A leading global automotive manufacturer needed to upgrade infrastructure to support mechanical CAD systems, as a result of having to keep up with increasing storage capacity requirements.

The company deployed IBM Storwize appliances and reported they had reduced:

Their data footprint (design data) from more than 300TB, to roughly 100TB
Millions of dollars worth of storage infrastructure costs
CPU utilization dramatically among storage devices

Plus, IBM Storwize solutions transparently integrated with their existing PLM solution.

Learn more about IBM Storwize from this automotive manufacturer case study, or watch one of the IBM Storwize videos to get details about how real-time data compression optimizes storage without compromising on performance.

Other case studies which highly manufacturing operations and IBM Storwize real-time data compression include a chip design manufacturer and a food and beverage company.