Valley Proteins Adopts FlashStack™ Converged Infrastructure for its Business-Critical SAP Applications

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market's leading independent all-flash data platform vendor for the cloud era, today announced that Valley Proteins, Inc., the leader in recycling food-service waste, has adopted a FlashStack™ converged infrastructure from Cisco Systems and Pure Storage to host its business-critical SAP applications. Valley Proteins, a Winchester, Virginia-based rendering company, transports hundreds of millions of gallons of used cooking oil and other byproducts every year, which enables the materials to be re-used instead of ending up in landfills. The company uses SAP as the cornerstone of its business, tracking materials, inventory, and vehicle location and maintenance in real time to maximize the efficiency of its 40 processing and transfer facilities and private trucking fleet, one of the largest in North America. It depends on SAP for a holistic view of customer profitability, supplier pricing, and individual factory performance, helping to guide and expedite business decision-making.