Case Study: Al Dahra achieves 10x app performance and 60% lower cloud costs with Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS

Al Dahra Improves App Performance 10x and Cuts Costs 60% by Consolidating Technologies with Nutanix on AWS

Al Dahra is a multinational agribusiness operating millions of tons of commodities across EMEA, APJ, Latin America and North America. Its IT estate—grown through expansions and acquisitions—spanned three distinct environments (EC2, VMware and Nutanix on-prem), creating siloed monitoring and backup tools and chronic performance problems for mission‑critical apps like ERP. With a four‑week deadline to vacate their on‑prem data center, the team needed a fast, cost‑effective way to consolidate and improve performance.

They migrated to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS via the AWS Marketplace and used Nutanix Move to lift and shift applications, consolidating backups with Cluster Protect to S3. The four‑week project delivered a 10x boost in app performance (observed 7,000 IOPS vs an expected 2,500–3,000), cut monthly cloud costs by 60%, reduced report generation from four hours to four minutes, and improved infrastructure admin productivity by 25%, while simplifying operations and enabling future active‑active resilience.

Al Dahra

Gagandeep Singh Hoda

IT Manager