Industry
Real estate
Data Analytics
Boosting performance and results
by using the right servers.
One of the world’s largest SaaS provider that was founded just over 20 years ago provides cloud-based, on-demand software, and data analytics.
This global giant is also a top user of Microsoft SQL, using more than 50,000 Microsoft SQL databases. They process more than 3.1 billion transactions and generate over 1.2 million reports for their clients on peak days.

The Challenge
Their requirement was an infrastructure set up that effectively expanded with their ever-growing workload. The analysis of a massive amount of the enterprise’s unstructured data, be it at the edge, core, or on Cloud, posed an issue.
The approach
Our focus was to enable the implementation of solutions that functioned on VMware virtualised environment to run SQL database efficiently and concurrently deal with the increasing workload and perform data analysis on their data lake for operational and market forecasting, rental pricing and more.
The Solution
The use of The Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and VMware virtualisation reduced the number of server cores, resulting in the cost reduction of SQL licensing by 33%. The Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise console, decreased the complexity involved in the IT infrastructure management to keep all business operations running smoothly. We solved the data lake problem using Dell EMC Powerscale (Isilon) scale-out network-attached storage.
Now, the data can help their own data scientists to distil insights from this valuable information to improve their decision-making.
Product categories and services used
Dell Technologies
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
- Dell EMC Isilon
- Dell EMC PowerEdge rack server
VMware
- VMware vSphere