Royal Vezet has been a pioneer in farming, producing and supplying (daily) fresh produce since 1914. This has led to a strong position in Europe as the market leader in convenience vegetables, sliced fruit, salads and chilled meals. Every day, 1.5 million kilos of raw materials arrive at Royal Vezet’s factories. From these, more than 250 different daily fresh products are made. With a close-knit team of specialists, five factories and more than 60 nationalities, Royal Vezet is an indispensable link for supermarkets in Europe.
Customer perspective
Expertise from Databalance
“We were using a complex storage system. When the contract of our previous solution expired, it made sense to explore other ways of managing storage. We were looking for a more efficient and simple way to connect our hardware, fiber channels and controllers. We have a long and excellent relationship with Databalance and relied on their team of experts to come up with the right storage solution.”
Software-defined storage
“One of the key requirements was to shift the complexity from hardware-driven processes to a software-based solution. This would simplify the management and maintenance of our office tools, ERP applications and customized production solutions. Databalance knows our needs and requirements inside out. When they presented a solution with Fujitsu hardware and DataCore, we were convinced it would meet our needs. However, we did have a tight deadline because the lease on our existing hardware was expiring.”
DataCore has been an industry leader and innovator in software-defined storage for more than 20 years. DataCore’s virtualization software enables seamless management of the storage architecture, enabling huge performance improvements at a fraction of the cost of traditional hardware solutions.
DataCore’s SANsymphony-V solves many storage-related challenges in server and desktop virtualization. The software acts as an active and transparent virtualization layer across different storage systems, maximizing availability and performance.
At Royal Vezet, the DataCore solution is hosted on ten Fujitsu Primergy RX2530 M2 servers, combined with Fujitsu ETERNUS DX200 storage. The infrastructure is spread across two different data centers for added redundancy and currently offers 60TB of mirrored data capacity.
Seamless migration and transition
