Customer Background
PT Surya Citra Televisi (SCTV) was established in 1990 in Surabaya as a regional broadcaster under the name Surabaya Central Televisi. After obtaining a national broadcasting license in 1993, it expanded its reach across Indonesia. Today, SCTV operates under PT Surya Citra Media Tbk (SCM), which is controlled by the Emtek Group, one of the largest media conglomerates in the country.
The network is widely recognized for its mainstream free-to-air programming, including news, entertainment, and drama. Over the years, SCTV has evolved from a local television station into a prominent national media player, continuously adapting to digital platforms within the broader SCM/Emtek ecosystem.
Challenges
Escalating Licensing Costs: Following Broadcom’s changes, the shift to subscription-only licensing has significantly increased OPEX, particularly for large-scale on-premises workloads such as media editing, rendering, broadcast playout systems, and VMS servers.
Uncertainty Around Long-Term Support: Broadcom’s consolidation of partners and reduction in support SKUs have created ambiguity around hardware compatibility, upgrade paths, and SLA commitments, making long-term infrastructure planning more difficult.
Migration Risks and Data Portability Concerns: With critical workloads heavily dependent on VMware, there is growing concern about the complexity of moving data and applications to alternative platforms. Migration risks are especially high for production environments, including SAP HANA applications and databases, where downtime and data integrity are critical.
Operational Complexity in a Multi-Vendor, Three-Tier Architecture: The coexistence of VMware, standalone SAN/NAS storage, and separate networking layers leads to increased operational overhead. This fragmented environment results in siloed monitoring, higher management complexity, and a greater demand for specialized skill sets.
Sangfor Solution and Benefits:
- Sangfor 3-tier infra (aSV + aNet) + Dell/Hitachi External Storage
- Unified management with Sangfor Cloud Platform(SCP)
- Socket based perpetual license
- Worry-free Migration from VMware
Solution Values
Predictable and Cost-Controlled OPEX: Sangfor offers a transparent, stable licensing model based on sockets with perpetual options, eliminating unpredictable subscription spikes. Customers pay only for deployed compute and network resources, with no hidden per-core charges, ensuring long-term cost control for large-scale media workloads. In proven customer deployments, organizations have achieved up to 70% lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) compared to legacy virtualization environments, significantly improving infrastructure investment efficiency.
Reliable Local Support and Long-Term Clarity: Sangfor delivers direct, in-region support in Indonesia, avoiding delays from overseas escalation. With a consistent product roadmap and extended hardware lifecycle support, customers gain clear visibility into future upgrades, compatibility, and SLA commitments, reducing operational uncertainty.
Seamless Migration with Minimal Disruption: Sangfor aSV is designed for smooth transition from VMware, enabling VM import, configuration retention, and minimal downtime. Proven migration tools and professional services ensure safe onboarding of critical workloads, including SAP HANA and SAP databases, as well as broadcast, playout, file servers, and VMS systems. In addition, Sangfor HCI supports integration with Dell and Hitachi storage via FC and iSCSI, preserving current infrastructure investments. Migration activities can be completed with near-zero service interruption, with end users experiencing little to no noticeable downtime throughout the transition process.
Simplified Operations with a Unified Platform: Sangfor integrates compute (aSV) and network virtualization (aNET) into a single, centrally managed platform. This unified architecture eliminates the complexity of managing separate virtualization, storage, and networking layers, while enabling micro-segmentation for improved internal security. The result is streamlined operations, faster troubleshooting, and reduced dependency on specialized skill sets.
