Thal Limited – Together We Innovate

Our Partner

Jaffar Business Systems is a leading IT Solutions provider and system integrator in Pakistan. It aims to improve business processes through its diverse suite of solutions in a creative way, both locally ad globally.

Jaffer Business Systems (JBS), a principal partner with VMware with the highest number Master Services Competencies in Pakistan, has been a trusted partner of Thal Limited for more than 10 years and carried out the design and configuration.
“We knew we could rely on the JBS team to provide us with a cost-effective solution,” says Noor us Samad, CIO, Thal Limited. “As an existing partner, they had a deep understanding of our business requirements, and our teams have been working well together for many years.”

The Story

Founded in 1966, Thal Limited is a Pakistan-based manufacturing conglomerate established under parent company the House of Habib. It employs about 4,500 executives and workers across six business divisions that specialize in the production of jute goods, paper sacks, laminate sheets and engineering products.

Customer Name: Thal Limited
Solutions Platform: Multi-Cloud
Country: Pakistan
Industry: Manufacturing Industry
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Nationwide challenges such as import restrictions, currency devaluation and increased tax and inflation rates, led to overall financial losses for Thal Limited. To cope with revenue challenges, Thal Limited had to prioritize maximizing cost efficiency across its business functions, while optimizing internal operations. Home to about 20 physical servers, the Thal Limited data center was not just expensive to manage but it also took a lot of time for the tech team to fix and recover its systems whenever a server crashed. Thal Limited needed to streamline its server management so that it could gain more centralized control and minimize disruptions to the business.

VMware vCenter

VMware vCenter is an advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling vSphere environments for visibility across hybrid clouds.

VMware ESXi

Discover a robust, bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto your physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi effectively partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs. It’s the industry leader for efficient architecture, setting the standard for reliability, performance, and support.

VMware vSphere

Get the benefits of the cloud for on-premises workloads. vSphere supercharges performance, enhances operational efficiency and accelerates innovation.

Thal Limited has been using VMware ESXi since 2018 and now have eight ESXi hosts supporting about 700 end users. Integrating VMware vCenter, a platform to manage all host and virtual machines, was thus a natural progression for the company. The solution allowed Thal Limited to roll out three virtual machines, and ensure that at least two servers are configured in High Availability mode with SAN connectivity.

By transitioning from standalone servers to the High Availability configuration in VMware vCenter, Thal Limited managed to increase its uptime from 95 percent to 99.9 percent.
VMware vCenter allows the IT team to see what’s happening in real time and simplify server management by consolidating multiple Operating System Instances on a single piece of hardware. This enabled them to shorten the lead time between failure and recovery of systems by about four hours.
By reducing the number of physical servers from 20 to four, Thal Limited is able to reduce overall costs by 15 percent.
With higher availability of services, the 4,500 Thal Limited workers and executives were able to maximize their productivity. This in turn allowed them to deliver better customer experiences while protecting the company’s reputation and reliability.

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