Case Study: ifm Group Services achieves agile, high-performance, scalable Industry 4.0 infrastructure with Nutanix

ifm Develops and Produces Solutions for Industry 4.0 with Nutanix

ifm, a global leader in industrial automation and Industry 4.0 solutions with over 9,000 employees and €1.45 billion in revenue, needed a more agile, reliable IT platform to support 24/7 SAP and production systems, a growing IIoT portfolio, and new initiatives such as a 100 TB internal platform for editing 4K product videos. The company required low-latency access to large files, predictable costs, rapid capacity expansion, and high availability across multiple locations worldwide.

ifm chose Nutanix Files and Nutanix HCI on HPE ProLiant DX nodes—preferring it to a cloud-only option for cost predictability, file-size flexibility, and performance. The straightforward deployment and easy node-based scaling let ifm expand capacity on the fly, migrate VMs to Nutanix, and run multiple clusters across sites. Outcomes include faster, latency‑sensitive data access (enabling direct 4K editing), reduced administrative complexity via Prism and Life Cycle Manager, higher availability with synchronous replication, and a hybrid-ready platform that preserves future cloud and hypervisor choice.

ifm Group Services

Daniel Trembich

IT Administrator / System Engineer