Perfekt helps Forever New ditch Dell for Nutanix

Melbourne-based IT partner Perfekt has modernised fashion retailer Forever New’s IT infrastructure, swapping Dell for Nutanix. 

Perfekt was responsible for migrating Forever New’s Dell infrastructure, which was running Microsoft’s Hyper-V, for Nutanix’s AHV with the aim of speeding up infrastructure and enterprise applications. 

Forever New originally began using Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure in 2016, collapsing the previous three-tier array of separate server, storage and networking technology in its data centre. 

However, the retailer was looking to refresh its infrastructure, tapping Perfekt to complete the migration to Nutanix AHV following an introduction by the vendor. 

“Since completing the migration, middleware errors have gone, and our warehouse management system is more accurately providing shop staff and customers real-time inventory data,” said Ben Tobgui, group head of infrastructure of Forever New. 

“Performance of the underlying infrastructure has immensely improved. Our offshore teams and stores, who access the information they need through Citrix, have felt it too. Logins which used to take minutes now connect in seconds.” 

Performance improvements also extend to online application programming interfaces (APIs), payroll systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and product lifecycle management – all of which are running much faster, Forever New said. 

“Nutanix simplifies managing this environment through a single pane of glass, giving us the flexibility to move workloads across clouds as new assets enter the business or as needs change – this aligns perfectly with our hybrid multi cloud strategy,” Tobgui added.