Koton Chose Huawei's Dorado Storage and OceanProtect for Retail Operations

Koton, one of Turkey’s leading fashion retail brands, was founded in 1988 and today operates with more than 450 stores in Turkey and in 28 different countries. Reaching over 30 million customers every year, Koton continues its rapid growth through both its physical stores and its e-commerce channel.

At the core of Koton’s success lies a strong and uninterrupted IT infrastructure that supports both store operations and the e-commerce platform. At the heart of its operations, critical applications from product management to point-of-sale systems, from the e-commerce platform to logistics management run on a virtualization infrastructure.

The company uses a multi-data center architecture to ensure business continuity. This infrastructure is critical for the seamless and secure operation of both in-store operations and online order processes.

Collaboration with Atacom

Atacom Bilişim has been a trusted technology partner to Koton for over a decade. This long-standing collaboration has successfully delivered numerous critical projects, encompassing server virtualization, ERP systems, and data storage systems. The proven track record and deep technical expertise established over years of partnership were key factors in ensuring the success of this project.

Customer Requirements and Challenges

Koton’s rapidly growing data volume was causing performance bottlenecks in the existing storage infrastructure:

• The heavy workloads running in the virtualization environment were facing increased latency and capacity issues.

• The traditional backup infrastructure was operating slowly and becoming increasingly difficult to manage.

Koton’s Objectives

To build a high-performance, reliable, scalable, and integrated data-protection-enabled enterprise storage infrastructure.

Additionally, they were seeking a solution that would ensure business continuity, shorten backup times, and increase operational efficiency.

Huawei Solution

Working together, Atacom and Huawei, provided Koton with a solution package that ensures high performance, business continuity, and data security.

Products and Positioning:

• Data Center 2: 1× Dorado 5000 + 1× OceanProtect X3000

• Data Center 1: 1× Dorado 2000 + 1× OceanProtect X3000

• Headquarters Building: 1× Dorado 2000

Thanks to this structure, Koton's primary and secondary data centers were equipped with high-performance all-flash storage systems.

The backup infrastructure was distributed across two locations, ensuring high resilience against disaster scenarios.

Benefits Provided by the Huawei Dorado Series

• Sub-millisecond latency and millions of IOPS with a full NVMe architecture.

• Automatic resource optimization through AI-powered iMaster Storage management.

• Business continuity ensured with 99.9999% availability.

• High data efficiency with features such as snapshot, cloning, replication, compression, and deduplication.

• Enhanced data security with hardware- and software-based encryption, as well as ransomware protection.

Benefits Provided by the Huawei OceanProtect X3000

• Up to 70% savings in backup storage with inline deduplication and compression.

• Up to 5× faster data recovery times.

• Advanced data protection against ransomware with WORM and Air-Gap technologies.

• Cloud-compatible (S3) architecture ready for hybrid backup scenarios.

Competitive Environment and Differentiation

The project served as an important reference that strengthened Huawei's position in Koton's IT environment.

Key advantages of Huawei solutions:

• Full NVMe architecture and high IOPS performance

• AI-powered management

• Cost/performance balance

• Strong local support network consisting of Huawei & Atacom engineers

These factors determined Koton's preference for Huawei solutions.

Implementation Process

The project was successfully completed within approximately 4 weeks:

• Dorado systems were integrated into the existing IT environment.

• Data migrations were carried out in a planned and seamless manner.

• The OceanProtect infrastructure was optimized by integrating it with the existing backup software.

All technical challenges were quickly resolved by Atacom's experienced engineers.

Results and Benefits Achieved:

The deployment of Huawei Dorado and OceanProtect systems brought significant improvements to Koton’s IT infrastructure:

• Up to 70% performance improvement, with noticeable reductions in application response times

• 60% shorter backup times and more efficient data protection

• 50% storage savings through deduplication and compression

• Centralized management ease, increased operational efficiency

• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and high investment protection

Overall Assessment

This success story demonstrates Atacom's ability to combine long-term customer relationships with strong technological expertise, while highlighting the competitive advantage of Huawei's Dorado and OceanProtect solutions in enterprise data centers.