Nutanix announced that Al Dahra, a global agribusiness company with operations across 20 countries, has successfully migrated its IT infrastructure to a Nutanix Cloud Clusters environment on Amazon Web Services. The move has resulted in a 10x improvement in the performance of business-critical applications and a 60% reduction in cloud costs, empowering the company to operate more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Al Dahra is a prominent multinational provider in agribusiness, operating over 400 thousand acres of agricultural land in Egypt, Romania, Serbia, USA and others, specialised in the cultivation, production and trading of up to 3 million tons of essential food commodities and up to 3 million tons of animal feed. They faced a critical deadline to migrate out of its UAE-based data centre.
The company’s IT infrastructure, built over time through expansions and acquisitions, had become complex and siloed, consisting of three distinct environments, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, VMware and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure. These systems created challenges in terms of performance, cost and administrative overhead.
“Our ERP system and other mission-critical applications were struggling with less than optimal performance, regardless of the environment they were running on,” said Gagandeep Singh Hoda, IT Manager at Al Dahra. “Analysis revealed that the IOPS in each environment were insufficient and upgrading hardware would have been too expensive.”
Hoda and his team decided to consolidate their environments into a single cloud-based solution, ultimately selecting Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS. “Nutanix consistently performed the best across our environments and we had a strong partnership with AWS, so the decision was clear,” said Hoda.
The migration, which involved evaluation, procurement, deployment and application migration, was completed in just four weeks. The simplicity of the procurement process via the AWS Marketplace, along with Nutanix Move, which migrated applications at no additional cost, made the transition seamless.
