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When the Boston Red Sox organization stepped up to the plate for a digital transformation, Chhandomay Mandal, director of product marketing at Dell EMC, was ready to go to bat for them with the right tools.
The baseball organization was looking to innovate the spectators’ experience across the JumboTron and smartphones, as well as the analytics on their own players. Mandal saw a lot of business opportunities to feed into a virtualized environment.
“As you look, ranging from better spectator experience, ranging to the coaches getting competitive advantage from the opposing players or the scouting department, and running the general back office applications like [Microsoft] Exchange … now they were able to consolidate all of these things into the [Dell EMC] XtremIO All-Flash array platform,” Mandal said.
Mandal spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Lisa Martin (@LuccaZara), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas. They discussed XtremIO’s unique, data-centric architecture designed to scale. (* Disclosure below.)
Think of an all-flash computing array as a souped up, high-performance version of a storage disk system. With multiple flash memory drives instead of spinning hard disk drives, all-flash helps deliver hundreds of thousands, even millions of input/output operations per second, with very low latency.
“And that’s just the first layer — the second layer has advanced data services always online,” Mandal explained. “The ability to deliver this performance, as well as getting data reduction of almost seven to one, was a key for the Red Sox’s digital transformation journey.”
The results were lower costs, faster speed, and simpler management, as well as faster time to resolve issues. Analytics used to take 10 hours to run for the Red Sox. Now that time spent has been cut 80 percent. The team’s information technology administrators can also support more spectators on the wireless network as they watch the game.
“[Boston Red Sox] are viewing IT as a strategic investment,” Mandal said. “Flash is a fast media, so having great performance — it will stay. That is not the real differentiator, so to speak, but it needs to be coupled with advanced data services.”
From his perspective, data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery are the three important keys to any business that need to rely on systems up and running 365 days of the year, 24/7. XtremIO All-Flash is just one of the “sweet spot” packages of an enterprise’s capabilities, Mandal concluded.
Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Technologies World 2018 event. (* Disclosure: Dell EMC sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell EMC nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
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