Case Study: Nature Fresh Farms achieves scalable, AI-driven greenhouse innovation with Dell Technologies Isilon storage

Innovating the future of fresh produce

NatureFresh Farms, one of Canada’s largest independent greenhouse growers, faced rapidly growing video storage and access challenges as acreage doubled from 64 to 128 acres. To consolidate dispersed video servers and provide fast, reliable access to high‑resolution footage for monitoring and automation, they upgraded their Dell Technologies environment with Dell EMC Isilon scale‑out storage (running Milestone VMS) and use VMware SD‑WAN for unified data and video access.

Dell Technologies’ Isilon centralized and accelerated access to video and automation data, enabling AI‑driven plant analysis, robotics inspection, and real‑time responses (for example, recommending and releasing “good bugs” to control pests). The deployment allowed NatureFresh Farms to double in size without adding IT staff—maintaining a four‑person IT team—while improving quality control, speeding decision‑making, and supporting the company’s evolution toward greater automation and AI.

NatureFresh Farms

Keith Bradley

IT Manager