Kaneka Concocts an Impeccable Infrastructure Formula for Malaysia’s Industry 4.0 Vision With Nutanix

Chemical Manufacturing Company Sees 35% Increase in Productivity with
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform

SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nutanix
(NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced
at its .NEXT on Tour conference in Singapore that, in line with
realizing Malaysia’s Industry 4.0 vision, chemical manufacturing giant
Kaneka Malaysia (“Kaneka”) has re-engineered its IT infrastructure with
the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. According to Kaneka, the company
is now enjoying an overall 35% increase in productivity, 83% lower power
consumption and 91% greater efficiency in manpower deployment.

As one
of the most developed chemical industries globally, Malaysia’s
chemical sector enjoys an
abundance of natural resources and has a supportive business environment.
But to further increase competitiveness, chemical manufacturing
companies like Kaneka Corporation have turned to improving their
infrastructure to raise productivity and efficiency, which in turn
translates into greater profitability. This is in line with Malaysia’s
move to leverage the nine technology pillars under Industry 4.0 vision
to transform the nation into a smart city which includes intelligent
manufacturing as one of its features.

Kaneka has been operating in Malaysia since August 1995 and belongs to
the Kaneka Corporation, an international chemical manufacturing company
which produces products such as modifiers, expandable plastics and
synthetic fibres. Prior to implementation of the Nutanix solution,
Kaneka had a legacy IT infrastructure that comprised of inefficient
disparate systems which were expensive to maintain and difficult to
scale up as IT requirements expanded. Working through the IT partner
Virtuosity Solutions, an IT Technology Assessment study was conducted
which included interviews with top management and systems engineers on
Kaneka’s operations and pain points.

“An IT Assessment study has never been performed in Kaneka Malaysia but
our investment on the study has definitely proven its worth,” said
Ehtesham Ihsan, Acting Department Head, Kaneka. “The subsequent detailed
study done by our trusted and capable consulting partner allowed us to
realise the value of IT Infrastructure’s role in driving overall
productivity, and that helped us to make the decision to overhaul our
systems with Nutanix as one of the core technologies.”

The study showed that Kaneka’s IT systems were not adequately protected
against potential hardware or software crashes, system intrusions or
datacentre outages. This could severely impact availability of Kaneka’s
critical operations. Additionally, the IT systems were not standardized
in deployment and operations, hence curtailing efficiency and greater
business growth. New technologies were needed to re-engineer Kaneka’s
entire IT operation.

The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform provided a converged and
simplified infrastructure stack, as well as streamlined and simplified
management operations. Thirty-four of Kaneka’s servers were migrated to
the Nutanix Platform. Business critical applications that were running
on legacy systems were virtualized including SAP, SAP SRM, SharePoint,
HRMS and a couple of other proprietary mission critical systems to
ensure better enterprise resource planning and operations. The entire
implementation took only four months to complete, as opposed to the
typical six to eight months, without causing great disruption to
day-to-day business operations.

Since the deployment of the systems on June 2017, Kaneka has seen
multiple benefits. With Nutanix Prism, the centralized infrastructure
management layer, Kaneka has reported a 91% reduction in IT support
required and 477 man hours saved as less manpower was needed for
maintenance. In addition, the Nutanix solution has resulted in a
decreased footprint of 300 square feet as the number of physical servers
required has been cut down by 15. The more efficient system has also led
to 83% of reduction in power consumption. In particular, total cost of
operation has reduced significantly at an estimated RM 1.5 million in 5
years.

“We’re pleased that our Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS has played a pivotal
role in helping Kaneka greatly increase productivity and output,” said
Matt Young, SVP and Head of Asia Pacific and Japan, Nutanix. “Kaneka’s
Malaysia operations is a testbed for this infrastructure overhaul and
based on its success thus far, we look forward to working with the rest
of the Kaneka facilities in other regions in the not too distant future.”

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