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"Understanding priorities is important when moving toward a private cloud solution. For us, Sangfor has proven to be a competitive and reliable solution without compromising on quality. Based on our experience, Sangfor HCI delivers a level of quality comparable to leading technology brands while remaining highly suitable for developing businesses."
Subagyo Bagus Yuwono, Business Application Manager at PT Agro Boga Utama
About PT Agro Boga Utama (ABU)
PT Agro Boga Utama (ABU) is one of Indonesia's leading frozen food supply chain companies, providing local and imported dairy, meat, vegetables, and other frozen food products to both B2B and B2C customers across the country. The company relies heavily on its IT infrastructure and ERP systems to support logistics operations, inventory management, and business growth.
As business operations expanded, ABU required a modern infrastructure platform capable of supporting increasing workloads while ensuring business continuity, data protection, and operational efficiency.
Challenges
Balancing Growth with Infrastructure Costs
As ABU continued to scale its operations, infrastructure costs became an increasing concern. The organization needed a solution that could support future growth without significantly increasing operational complexity or IT expenditure.
Strengthening Backup and Data Protection
Data protection was another major priority. Before adopting Sangfor HCI, the IT team could perform only one backup per day, limiting recovery flexibility and increasing risks to critical business systems.
Ensuring Business Continuity During Migration
Operating as a nationwide supply chain company, ABU requires its applications and services to remain available around the clock. Any infrastructure migration therefore had to be completed with minimal disruption to business operations.
Establishing a Reliable Disaster Recovery Strategy
ABU's critical workloads ran in a single primary data center with no dedicated disaster recovery site. A major outage, hardware failure, or site-level incident could have disrupted nationwide supply chain operations for a long time. ABU needed a DC and DRC architecture that could replicate critical systems and restore services quickly without adding a complex, separately managed DR solution.
Maximizing the Value of Existing Server Investments
Moving to HCI would leave ABU's former x86 servers unused, even though they were still working. Retiring them early would waste previous investment, while building a new DR site from scratch would raise capital costs. ABU wanted to reuse this hardware in a meaningful role.
Why Sangfor HCI
After evaluating available alternatives, ABU selected Sangfor HCI because it delivered a combination of competitive licensing, enterprise-class virtualization capabilities, and enhanced backup functionality. The platform also offered simplified management experience and strong local support, helping the company confidently modernize its infrastructure.
Most importantly, Sangfor demonstrated its ability to support a smooth migration process with minimal downtime, a key requirement for ABU's business-critical environment.
Solution Value
Improved Data Protection and Business Continuity
With Sangfor HCI, ABU can now protect selected virtual machines every 30 minutes rather than once per day. This significantly improves recovery readiness and reduces business risk associated with potential system failures or data loss.
In addition, Sangfor's integrated aDR replication technology enables stronger disaster recovery capabilities, helping ensure operational continuity across critical workloads.
Simplified Infrastructure Management
Managing infrastructure has become significantly easier through Sangfor's centralized dashboard. The IT team can efficiently monitor resources, manage workloads, and optimize performance through a single management platform.
Reliable Local Support
Throughout the migration project, Sangfor's local team and implementation partners provided timely technical assistance and issue resolution. Their support helped maintain a smooth implementation experience and reinforced ABU's confidence in the platform.
Scalable Foundation for Future Growth
Sangfor HCI provides the scalability needed to support ABU's long-term digital transformation plans. The platform supports increasing compute requirements and enables the organization to transition toward containerized and modern application architectures.
Integrated DC and DRC Architecture with Sangfor aDR
ABU now runs a DC and DRC setup powered by Sangfor aDR (Application-level Disaster Recovery). Critical workloads in the primary data center are continuously replicated to the DRC, so services can fail over quickly if the primary site goes down. Because aDR is built into the Sangfor HCI platform, the IT team manages replication, recovery plans, and failover from the same interface they use every day, with no separate DR product to deploy or maintain. This gives ABU enterprise-grade disaster recovery with less complexity and faster, more predictable recovery.
Repurposed Legacy Servers as a Cost-Effective DRC
Instead of retiring ABU's former x86 servers, Sangfor reinstalled them with Sangfor HCI and turned them into the organization's disaster recovery center. This gave the existing hardware a new, business-critical job and let ABU build its DR site without buying a full new set of infrastructure. The approach protects ABU's earlier investment, lowers the total cost of the DR project, and shows that Sangfor HCI can run on standard x86 hardware.
Looking Ahead
As part of its digital transformation roadmap, ABU is exploring AI-driven automation technologies and future hybrid cloud initiatives. These projects require greater computing resources and a robust infrastructure foundation.
With Sangfor HCI in place, ABU now has a scalable, reliable, and flexible platform capable of supporting these next-generation business initiatives while maintaining operational efficiency.
