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OUR OLD ENVIRONMENT SLIPPED AND STUMBLED TO MANAGE THIS , CAUSING INTERNAL DELAYS AND HEADACHES TO GET THE DATA WE NEEDED .
Enterprise cloud OS leader Nutanix and its partner Australian Sentinel have announced they are helping Natures Organics lower its technology and carbon footprints , reduce IT costs and future-proof its infrastructure as Australia ’ s manufacturing industry reignites .
Since 1981 , Natures Organics has played a vital role in Australian homes as the nation ’ s pioneer in environmentally responsible initiatives , manufacturing eco-friendly cleaning products with a range of popular brands including Earth Choice , Australian Pure and OC Naturals . It creates over 50 million units of highquality , affordable and naturally derived products sold through major retailers including Woolworths and Coles each year .
In keeping with its ethos , the company sought to overhaul its ageing IT environment to improve its overall technology efficiency , a move which would complement its A $ 3 million , 1299kW roof-mounted solar deployment on its Victorian manufacturing plant . Its prior IT environment consisted of an array of fragmented and overly complex three-tier infrastructure that was inefficient , expensive and cumbersome to manage , which negatively impacted speed and productivity in important areas such as business intelligence and management of critical applications .
“ We receive thousands of customer enquiries per year and it ’ s vital we log and record those emails so the information can be transformed into actionable data ,” said Alex Plattfuss , Head of IT , Natures Organics . “ Our old environment slipped and stumbled to manage this , causing internal delays and headaches to get the data we needed . It was becoming prohibitively expensive and out of sync with our ethos and environmental commitment .”
Natures Organics engaged the services of trusted IT partner Australian Sentinel , which identified Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) as the ideal solution to meet the company ’ s needs . The initial deployment leverages Nutanix ’ s AHV hypervisor , Prism Central centralized management platform and Files software-defined storage for data management and analytics .
The company projects IT-related energy consumption to fall 55 %, reduced costs of 32 %, as well as an 700 % improvement in business intelligence reporting capacity and performance , eliminating the complexity that was hindering Plattfuss and the Natures Organics team . The deployment has also had a huge positive impact on critical application management performance and security , eliminating 70 % of risks identified by Australian Sentinel in its analysis of the company ’ s IT infrastructure .
“ Just by switching Nutanix on , the vast majority of these risks were mitigated or eliminated , with a clear pathway and simple platform to address the remainder ,” said Tim Crouch , Director , Australian Sentinel . “ This frees Natures Organics to securely launch new products , services and digital programs as it continues to expand in an exciting time for the manufacturing industry .”
Timely tech reboot as Australia ’ s manufacturing industry resurges
The upgrade comes at a crucial time for Natures Organics , with the manufacturing industry poised to play a pivotal role in Australia ’ s post-pandemic recovery . The company sees the upgrade as essential to enable it to drive new eco-friendly products , such as Cove – a new line of refillable cleaning products that aims to reduce single-use plastic by up to 80 %.
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