Kuwait based Mohamed Naser Al-Hajery & Sons has trusted Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for successful Digital Transformation.
Nutanix has announced that Mohamed Naser Al-Hajery & Sons Ltd. (MNH) has leveraged Nutanix to enhance performance and availability of digital services and reduce TCO. Migrating to Nutanix ensures the performance and availability of critical digital applications, while reducing TCO by nearly 50%. Reduced complexity enables the IT team to refocus efforts on high-value initiatives that drive business outcomes.
Founded in 1946 with a single ‘Kuwaiti Drug Store’, MNH has now become a household name with over 100 brands in the healthcare, FMCG, perfumes and cosmetics, and food and beverage segments. To ensure the performance and availability of the various critical services and applications, MNH initially invested in a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution. Despite being from a leading vendor, it had several shortcomings that impacted the smooth operations of its various lines of business.
“As a 24×7 operation with so many retail outlets, every minute of downtime translates to lost sales, frustrated customers, and a direct impact on revenues. We were convinced HCI was the solution, but we needed the support of the best provider in the market,” explained Jackson D’Souza, CIO, MNH.
“Initially, our intention was to only deploy Nutanix in our main data center, but after experiencing the incredible ease of deployment and use during the POC, we immediately expanded the scope to include our DR site as well,” D’Souza said.
Today, all the Group’s core services, as well as its vertical-specific business applications run on Nutanix and MNH has benefitted greatly from the implementation. “The cost benefits are impressive, with our estimates showing the TCO with Nutanix to be 60% less than the offering from our previous partner. Previously, we also had to manage solutions from multiple vendors which meant dealing with complex licensing, engaging with multiple teams for support, and inevitably navigating finger-pointing when things went wrong,” he added further.
With Nutanix, they now have a single vendor to trust, and this gives them the confidence to scale without constraints, added costs, or risk. This simplicity actually helps MNH to refocus their time and efforts on innovation.
With Nutanix deployed in its disaster recovery site, MNH now enjoys a near-zero RPO and a significant enhancement to RTO. Previously, a complete restore would take up to 24 hours from the disaster recovery site to the main data center. In comparison, Nutanix achieves the same in under 5 minutes.“Usually, the consolidation of IT systems associated with such activities introduces IT complexity. But given how easy app migration is on the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, my team and I are confident we can effortlessly support these needs of the business as it continues to grow. In my experience, it is the perfect combination of market leading technology, with highly-dedicated local expertise that makes Nutanix such a capable and reliable digital transformation partner,” D’Souza concluded.
