Case Study: Menora Foods achieves 99.999% uptime and faster ERP performance with DataCore Software's SANsymphony‑V

Menora Foods - Customer Case Study

Menora Foods, Australia’s leading privately-owned food marketing and distribution business, struggled with single points of failure in its server and storage infrastructure that left critical systems (Exchange, ERP) vulnerable to lengthy outages. After evaluating hardware SANs and software-defined options, Menora Foods selected DataCore and its SANsymphony-V storage virtualization to provide hardware-agnostic redundancy and protect virtual machines and data across campus sites.

DataCore implemented SANsymphony-V with mirrored storage servers in two server rooms, virtualizing all storage for VMware hosts and core systems (the MATE ERP, Informix, SQL, Exchange, etc.). The deployment delivered better than 99.999% uptime, reduced ERP report times by about 30%, enabled buy-as-you-grow capacity (saving an estimated $60,000–$100,000 versus traditional SANs), eliminated long restores and late-night maintenance, and drastically cut IT admin time—meeting Menora’s one-hour maximum downtime mandate.

Menora Foods

Vikash Reddy

IT Manager