Intelligent Data Centres Issue 48 | Page 37

FEATURE FEATURE meant dealing with complex licensing , engaging with multiple teams for support and inevitably navigating finger-pointing when things went wrong ,” said D ’ Souza . “ With Nutanix , we have a single vendor we trust and this gives us the confidence to scale without constraints , added costs or risk .”
This simplicity has also translated to an ability for D ’ Souza to refocus his team ’ s time and efforts on innovation .
“ We have a dedicated infrastructure manager whereas before , he would spend all his time in managing our environment , this aspect of his workload has been dramatically reduced since we migrated to Nutanix . I ’ ve therefore been able to assign him to other projects that drive business outcomes .”
Performance exceeds expectations
Offering an example of how Nutanix has untethered his IT team from the constraints imposed by the performance limitations of their previous HCI solution , D ’ Souza added : “ Due to latency issues , we were unable to upgrade our mission-critical core ERP system to the latest version and take advantage of the new features that could streamline our operations and enhance customer experiences . But with Nutanix , we can run even this tremendously resourcehungry workload with no performance issues at all .”
D ’ Souza estimates that Nutanix ’ s solution will meet his organisation ’ s requirements for the next four years at the very least . “ And this is all while enabling us to use the excess capacity at our DR site as a test environment . Because we can spin up VMs with little to no effort , Nutanix serves as a test bed for us to rapidly test new applications that we can then confidently rollout to our employees and customers .”
Reliability instils confidence
With Nutanix deployed in its Disaster Recovery site , MNH now enjoys a near-zero RPO and a significant enhancement to RTO .
“ Previously , a complete restore would take up to 24 hours from our Disaster Recovery site to our main data centre . In www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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