Mizuno USA is a leading provider of sporting goods, apparel, and gear in the US. The company was using a SAN based on traditional hard-disk technology, but was concerned about its efficiently, scalability, and performance. It had also outgrown its offsite backup solution and was looking for an easy-to-manage backup solution that could run in-house and help control costs. This white paper discusses the challenges Mizuno was facing and its reasoning for deploying hybrid flash storage with a backup solution purpose built for virtualization.
