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As Cortizo, a leading Spanish manufacturer of aluminium and PVC profiles, experienced a surge in data volume, it upgraded to Pure Storage FlashArray, enhancing application access and reducing latency.

Santiago de Compostela

Accelerating applications with large technological data volumes

Founded in 1972 in Padrón( A Coruña), Cortizo has become a leader in the Spanish market and a European benchmark in the manufacture of aluminium and PVC profiles used in architecture and industry. It has nine production centres in four countries, 31 distribution and logistics centres, and sells in more than 60 countries. In 2017, it invoiced 554 million euros and currently employs more than 2,800 workers.

One of the keys to the success of Cortizo is its commitment to the use of the most cutting-edge technology in the sector to offer a technical response to the most demanding industrial and architectural demands. To do this, Cortizo has a powerful platform housed in two data centres. However, the growth in the volume of data handled by the company was generating demands on capacity and performance greater than what its previous storage solution could offer.

“ Our experience with the previous storage platform has been very satisfactory,” explains Ramiro Iglesias, Head of IT Systems at Cortizo, who has been working at the company for 17 years.“ However, due to the growth of the data we experienced, the storage platforms we had could not support the work either in capacity or in performance.”

In the short term, the most pressing need was to improve the speed of the company’ s Enterprise Resource Planning( ERP), as well as other applications

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