Large German Retailer Converts to a Single Object Storage System
From sturdy work pants to everyday clothing and even a fashion statement, jeans are one of the most popular garments of modern times. Jeans Fritz Handelsgesellschaft für Mode mbH, a German retail chain, has built its business around jeans and grown to more than 300 stores.
With the amount of data generated from in-store and online sales increasing, the company’s primary storage costs were rising significantly, leading it t ... show more
Large German Retailer Converts to a Single Object Storage System
From sturdy work pants to everyday clothing and even a fashion statement, jeans are one of the most popular garments of modern times. Jeans Fritz Handelsgesellschaft für Mode mbH, a German retail chain, has built its business around jeans and grown to more than 300 stores.
With the amount of data generated from in-store and online sales increasing, the company’s primary storage costs were rising significantly, leading it to seek a more cost-effective solution that would also provide the scalability and data availability needed. After initially considering public cloud, Jeans Fritz decided that it would be better served by deploying Cloudian on-premises object storage as a single platform for consolidating its primary and secondary storage.
As a result, the retailer reduced its storage costs by more than 50%, while still maintaining high data availability. In addition, the company avoided the need to purchase an additional backup system while laying the foundation to capitalize on the growing ecosystem of S3-based applications. Throughout the decision-making process, Jeans Fritz relied on the expertise and advice of Kramer & Crew (formerly Iso Data Technology), a market-leading IT services provider
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