Case Study Skylark is the undisputed leader of Japan’s food service industry. Following reorganization, the group needed to rationalize its disparate in-house enterprise systems. Eighty systems and 200 servers were housed in four different data centers and were being operated individually. The solution was to create a private cloud founded on HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7400 Storage. Challenge Need for integrated infrastructure With a myriad of brands catering to consumer needs, a network of 3,000 restaurants and the highest sales in the family restaurant industry, Skylark holds a prominent position in Japan’s food service industry. But its recent history has not always been rosy. The business needed a major overhaul of its management structure in 2008 to ‘improve profitabil

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