Case Study: Helkama Emotor Group achieves 30% capital savings and rapid VM deployment with Nutanix

Helkama Emotor Group moves up a gear with Nutanix converged infrastructure

Helkama Emotor Group, a Finnish family-owned industrial and retail group founded in 1905, was running an aging on‑premises data centre made up of HP blade servers and SAN storage that was hard to scale. The IT team needed to replace end‑of‑life hardware, complete a move from Microsoft Hyper‑V to VMware, and virtualize many physical servers to gain the agility and capacity to support future growth.

The group deployed a Nutanix converged infrastructure (NX1450, four nodes, 16 TB) and migrated about 30 workloads (including 25 physical servers) to VMware. The new platform was installed and configured in days, cut capital costs by 30%, reduced rack footprint by 50% and energy use by ~20%, and slashed in‑house management time by two‑thirds. Helkama now creates VMs in minutes, sees immediate storage and VM performance gains, and is planning wider rollouts and metro‑availability for DR.

Helkama Emotor Group

Kim Wikström

IT-Manager