Arvind Ltd, established in 1931, has emerged as one of the world’s largest denim manufacturer. Arvind Ltd has received global recognition for the manufacture of shirting, khaki and knitted fabrics and their growing presence in the domain of ready-made garments – jeans, shirts and knits – has further put Arvind on the top as a one-stop solution provider for leading global and domestic apparel brands.

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WEAVING ITRIGHT
Arvind Ltd, established in 1931, has
emerged as one of the world’s largest denim
manufacturer. Arvind Ltd has received global
recognitionforthemanufactureofshirting,khaki
andknittedfabricsandtheirgrowingpresencein
thedomainofready-madegarments-jeans,shirts
andknits–hasfurtherputArvindonthetopasa
one-stopsolutionproviderforleadingglobaland
domesticapparelbrands.
Key Challenges faced:
◗ Increased demand for providing 24x7
IT services
◗ Designing a data center to be located across
various manufacturing units spread across
India
◗ Managing the non-IT components like
Cooling system, power system etc.
◗ Free up IT management staff for more
productive activities
Why NxtGen was chosen?
◗ NxtGen OPDC offers a fully contained Data
Center solution
◗ Ease of deployment
◗ Can be deployed in any commercial space
◗ 24 x 7 continuous management of the Data
Center from central command center
◗ Energy efficient design ensuring lower
operational costs
Requirement
Arvind Ltd were faced with the challenges
of designing and building a data center at their
manufacturing units spread across the country.
Some of the key requirements were — ability
to have a clear understanding of data center on
capacity (power & space), manage power
consumption efficiently and minimize opex,
have a single point responsibility and minimize
risk of multi-vendor environment, ability to
monitor vital parameters and health of the data
center round the clock.
Solution
NxtGen proposed Arvind Ltd a modular
and scalable datacenter that is resilient,
energy efficient and can save up to 40% of
operational expenses. NxtGen’s OPDC
services provides Arvind Ltd data center
manager with a view of
1. Capacity utilization of power and space
2. Environmental monitoring
3. Real time PUE and the energy savings
potential and
4. The uptime of the facility
Mr. Ezhilarasan, IT Manager says “The
solutionproposedbyNxtGenisaself-contained
data center that suited our environment. This
did not require a separate room with a raised
floor, and was deployed in much less time
Arvind Ltd trim their power bills with NxtGen on premise data
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“Intel’s high performance server
compared to a traditional DC. Moreover the
proposed solution is capable of hosting more
compute equipment than what was planned
and this allowed us large headroom to manage
future growth”.
About NxtGen:
NxtGen provides data center and cloud
servicesfromtheirownhighdensitydatacenter
(HDDC) facilities or they can deploy centrally
managed on-premise data centers (OPDC).
Theirenterprisecloudservicesprovideprivate
cloudshostedwithinOPDCsandhostedprivate
clouds or hybrid cloud infrastructure hosted at
their HDDCs. NxtGen’s business-class
infrastructure helps companies simplify IT
infrastructure, reduce running costs, and
enable business growth by creating additional
capacity from existing infrastructure and
providing the right public or private
infrastructure to meet dynamic business
demands. NxtGen provides options and assists
it's customers to move into the hybrid cloud
world.IntelCapitalhasinvestedinNxtGen,and
aspartofthisinvestment,IntelandNxtGenare
working closely on high density & energy
efficientdatacentersandperformance,security
&availabilityofenterprise-classcloudservices.
Our Product Portfolio:
On Premise Data Center (OPDC): Modular
datacenters that are designed for current IT
loadandscalableeasilytomeetfuturedemand.
The range of OPDC data centers start from a
Single Rack which is completely self contained
withUPSandcoolingsolutions,SingleRowthat
rangesfromtworackstosixracksandDualrow
datacenters that can be expanded from eight
racks to over hundred racks. These solutions
are meant for discerning customers who
require a very high uptime for running their
business.Themodulardatacentersolutionfrom
NxtGencanbedeployedonanormalofficefloor
and does not require expensive raised floor
options. Each of the racks from NxtGen can
hold three times more servers compared to a
conventional server room and offers huge
savings on running cost. The energy efficient
design brings down operational cost from the
first month of operation onwards and offers a
quick Return on Investment.
High Density Data Center (HDDC): The
HDDC, proposed to be located in Bangalore will
set a new benchmark for operational efficiency
at a very low opex for customers. This facility
will allow customers to stack up to three times
more servers per rack compared to other
datacenter service providers.
Enterprise Cloud Services: NxtGen is a
vendor agnostic solution provider offering
private cloud services across VMware,
Microsoft and Openstack solutions. NxtGen
delivers cloud services both on hosted and on
premise model.
“One of our main concerns was the
cost of managing the datacenter
since our operations are 24 x 7.
The OPDC allows us to run the
facility at minimum power
consumption since we do not have
to invest in room air conditioners
that are expensive and consume
more power. With NxtGen OPDC
we are able to achieve considerable
amount of savings on power
charges alone. In addition to this,
NxtGen team from their command
center continuously monitors
the OPDC allowing our team to
focus on more critical IT activities.”
Mr.Ezhilarasan, IT Manager,
Arvind Ltd.
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