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Customer Background
Dalda Foods Ltd., established in 1937, is one of Pakistan’s leading food companies. Originally founded as a vanaspati and edible oil company, Dalda has grown into a diversified food business covering edible oils and fats, snacks, and dairy products. With renowned brands including Dalda, Planta, Manpasand, Tullo, and CupShup, the company has built a strong legacy of quality, innovation, and providing healthier choices to consumers across Pakistan.
Challenges
Required a future-proof HCI platform with simplified and centralized management.
As Dalda Foods’ IT infrastructure continued to grow, the organization was facing increasing complexity and operational challenges within its existing VMware environment. The rising cost of virtualization and infrastructure management, combined with the dependency on multiple platforms for compute, storage, backup, and other infrastructure services, made the overall environment increasingly complex and costly to manage.
The organization required a scalable, future-ready infrastructure platform capable of supporting its growing business workloads while simplifying day-to-day operations. With increasing dependency on the VMware ecosystem, Dalda Foods was looking for a reliable alternative that could deliver enterprise-grade virtualization capabilities with greater operational simplicity, flexibility, and cost efficiency.
These challenges led Dalda Foods to explore a modern HCI-based approach that could consolidate infrastructure components, simplify management, and provide a scalable foundation for future growth.
Solution Values
1. Cost Optimization: The successful transition from VMware to Sangfor HCI enabled Dalda Foods to optimize infrastructure costs by consolidating compute, storage, and networking into an integrated HCI platform. This delivered a more cost-effective infrastructure foundation while reducing dependency on multiple infrastructure platforms.
In addition, by consolidating infrastructure under a single Sangfor platform and SLA, Dalda Foods significantly reduced the operational overhead associated with managing multiple OEMs, vendors, and separate support agreements. According to the project assessment, SLA management overhead and associated cost were reduced by approximately 60%, simplifying support management and providing greater cost predictability.
2. Simplified and Centralized Management: Sangfor HCI integrated compute, storage, and networking into a unified platform, simplifying the management of Dalda Foods’ infrastructure. This reduced operational complexity and delivered a centralized approach to managing the virtualization environment.
3. Scalable Infrastructure for Business Growth: The Sangfor HCI deployment delivered a scalable and future-ready infrastructure platform for Dalda Foods to support its production workloads. The solution was deployed across both Primary and DR environments, providing a structured infrastructure foundation for ongoing business requirements.
4. Centralized Backup and Streamlined Support: Sangfor enabled centralized VM-level backup while integrating with Veeam to support file- and database-level backup requirements. In addition, the complete infrastructure is covered under Sangfor’s SLA, reducing reliance on multiple OEMs and local partners, while eliminating the need for maintaining separate spare inventory.
5. Up to 40% Lower TCO: Through the migration from VMware to Sangfor HCI, Dalda Foods achieved up to a 40% reduction in infrastructure TCO, while simplifying infrastructure management and reducing dependency on multiple OEMs.
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