Nutanix, Inc. partners with Forever New to modernise the global women’s fashion retailer’s infrastructure and to support its cloud strategy for enhanced customer experience.
“With multiple ways for shoppers to reach us all around the world for a seamless shopping experience – backend performance is the essence of a better, more personalised customer experience (CX). With Nutanix, we’ve woven confidence into our infrastructure outfit,” Naresh Teckchandani, general manager of IT, Forever New, said.
Core motivations
Teckchandani said there were core motivations behind the modernisation: ease of migration, cost of migration, cloud readiness, and future-proofing.
“Our eCommerce platform largely lives on AWS, while corporate workloads run on Azure. But not everything is cost-effective in the public cloud, so we use a combination of on-premises private cloud and public clouds. This keeps cloud costs controlled, and ensures applications run where they best fit,” Teckchandani said.
Benefits of the infrastructure refresh
The Forever New executive added that they have also cut power consumption through the cloud by 40% by slashing their former stack of 16 nodes down to just 10. Their backup performance has also improved, with previous eight-hour ERP backups currently completed in under one hour, and 12-hour data warehouse backups are down to two hours.
“Our infrastructure is on autopilot. It’s working, and I’m not living in it day-to-day – only when we need to add resources or run other maintenance. You don’t need a training course to learn how to use an iPhone and Nutanix is the same. It’s intuitive, self-explanatory, and the support is great,” said Ben Tobgui, the group head of Infrastructure at Forever New.
