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Peco Foods: Strengthening Business Continuity and Accelerating Disaster Recovery with Nutanix

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How Did Peco Foods Cut Workload Recovery Time in Half with Nutanix Cloud Clusters?

Navigating Severe Weather and High-Stakes Operations

In food production, operational speed, consistency, and strict regulatory compliance are business-critical. Headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, poultry producer Peco Foods relies heavily on real-time data flows to keep its facilities running safely. When a devastating tornado struck one of their major facilities and severed power for days, leadership realized their traditional disaster recovery strategy needed an overhaul to mitigate expensive downtime that previously cost thousands of dollars per hour.

Rapid Hybrid Cloud Recovery with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

To build a resilient infrastructure for the long haul, Peco Foods deployed Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS. By leveraging Nutanix multi-snapshot technology paired with a zero-compute footprint on Amazon Web Services, Peco Foods established a disaster recovery framework designed to safeguard critical workloads without incurring unnecessary cloud compute expenses during normal operations.

Centralized Management and Future-Ready Scale

Using Nutanix Prism Central, Peco Foods gained a single pane of glass to monitor cluster health, storage capacity, and data compression ratios across their environment. The unified platform gave the IT team the flexibility to recover, pivot, and grow seamlessly. With a solid foundation in place, Peco Foods is now positioned to expand and meet future business needs with Nutanix Unified Storage, Enterprise AI, and automated database management using the Nutanix Database Service (NDB) software.

Key Benefits

50% Faster Recovery

Cut the time required to recover key business-critical workloads in half, according to Manzano.

Zero-Compute DR Costs

Implemented multi-snapshot DR on AWS with zero compute required until failover.

With the help of Nutanix, we have reduced the time of recovering any workload in half... Having one platform that allows you the ease to recover, move, pivot, and grow—it's essential to have all those things in one single pane of glass.

 

- Mario Manzano Peco Foods
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Frequently Asked Questions

Peco Foods protects its critical workloads using Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS combined with multi-snapshot technology. This setup maintains standby data snapshots on an AWS cluster with zero compute running during normal operations, allowing the company to rapidly restore workloads and maintain business continuity if a facility loses power or suffers a physical disruption.

Peco Foods reduced its workload recovery time by 50% and helped mitigate the risk of thousands of dollars per hour in potential downtime costs. The team achieved 100% greater confidence in their disaster recovery speed while gaining multi-site visibility, data compression metrics, and workload consolidation through a single platform.

Nutanix Prism Central provides Peco Foods with a single pane of glass to monitor all clusters, cluster health, status, storage capacity, and data compression ratios. This centralized management gives the IT team the visibility and flexibility needed to scale infrastructure, pivot workloads, and prepare for future initiatives like Enterprise AI and database management.

NC2 on AWS is a hybrid cloud platform that extends on-premises Nutanix environments to Amazon Web Services, enabling organizations to run applications and manage resources natively in the public cloud. As demonstrated by Peco Foods, NC2 supports disaster recovery by:

  • Maintaining standby data snapshots on AWS without active cloud compute nodes during normal operations
  • Deploying active cloud resources on demand only when a disaster occurs.
  • Preserving existing IT skills and operational policies, reducing the need to retrain infrastructure teams.

Zero-compute disaster recovery with NC2 on AWS minimizes public cloud infrastructure expenses by replicating on-premises workloads directly to AWS storage buckets rather than active virtual machines.

This cost-efficient approach can help organizations to:

  • Avoid continuous virtual machine running costs by storing standby snapshots in cloud storage.
  • Spin up compute clusters on demand only during testing or active failover events.
  • Optimize infrastructure costs while maintaining a rapid Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

Nutanix Prism Central provides a centralized dashboard that aggregates cluster health and storage metrics across on-premises datacenters and AWS bare-metal instances. This consolidation eliminates the need to jump between different cloud portals. As demonstrated by Peco Foods, having a unified management setup can help IT teams to:

  • Monitor cluster health and storage capacity across all locations from a single view.
  • Track data compression ratios and replication status across environments.
  • Scale infrastructure and move workloads without maintaining separate tools for each cloud provider.