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Natures Organics drives environmental and cost efficiency with Nutanix
N atures Organics , a manufacturer of eco-friendly cleaning products based in Victoria , Australia , is benefitting from a timely tech reboot from Nutanix to improve services with datadriven decisions .
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 futureproof 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 high-quality , 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 centralised management platform and Files softwaredefined storage for data management and analytics .
The company projects IT-related energy consumption to fall 55 %, reduced costs of 32 %, as well as a 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 programmes 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 singleuse plastic by up to 80 %. •
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