A premier automotive aftermarket group operating a vast supply chain across Southern Africa required a modernised IT infrastructure to safeguard its core operations. With centralised logistics and 133 regional sites, the business needed continuous availability for its SAP and Nutanix production environments.

The challenge

The enterprise needed to protect high-transaction SAP workloads, eliminate risk across a geographically dispersed estate, and replace traditional on-premise backup practices with a scalable cloud-based disaster recovery model. Any prolonged disruption could affect daily trade, customer service and supply-chain coordination.

The IIS solution

Nutanix and SAP production optimisation

IIS took direct responsibility for managing and optimising the central Nutanix production environment, fine-tuning performance for the client’s high-transaction SAP workload and securing the wider ecosystem of secondary corporate servers.

Enterprise cloud disaster recovery

Automated, real-time replication was deployed from the on-premise environment into IIS Nutanix Cloud. The resulting hot-standby environment creates a rapid failover path that protects against localised data loss and hardware failure.

133-site distributed backup architecture

IIS designed a unified business continuity and backup framework tailored to 133 individual sites across South Africa. Centralised monitoring and consistent security protocols now support efficient local backups without exhausting site bandwidth.

Results and business value

The business now operates with an enterprise-grade cloud recovery posture for its SAP environment and core infrastructure. A fragmented, location-by-location risk profile has been replaced by a standardised and visible backup strategy, delivered on time and without disrupting active daily trade.