Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Leverages Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to Overcome Legacy Datacenter Challenges
October 26 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Nutanix Simplifies Infrastructure Management
and Eliminates VMware Licensing Fees for All Workloads and Use
Cases
Nutanix (NASDAQ:NTNX), the next-generation enterprise cloud
platform company, today announced that Cardinal Innovations
Healthcare has standardized its infrastructure on the Nutanix
enterprise cloud platform and has already eliminated $60,000 in
VMware licensing fees using AHV. As the largest specialty health
plan in the United States, Cardinal Innovations Healthcare will now
service its 720,000 members through an IT infrastructure based on
hybrid and all-flash systems from Nutanix.
Using a legacy multi-tiered IT architecture for all its
healthcare applications and services, the Cardinal Innovations IT
team was juggling nine different products, all with separate
contracts and licenses to manage. With these disparate products
becoming difficult to manage and requiring forklift upgrades to
scale, the company was looking to streamline its traditional
infrastructure and used a recent merger with another healthcare
company as an opportunity to undertake a datacenter overhaul.
After deciding to move to a hyperconverged environment, the
Cardinal Innovations IT team determined Nutanix was the most
complete solution of any of the vendors considered and the only one
to eliminate the sprawling contracts it was looking to do away
with. The company deployed 21 Nutanix nodes with a mix of hybrid
and all-flash systems running AHV to power all enterprise
workloads, accelerate its Citrix VDI environment and eliminate
VMware virtualization licensing fees.
The Cardinal Innovations IT team also took advantage of Nutanix
Prism’s simplified one-window management to streamline management,
especially when no specialized teams for specific parts of the
infrastructure were required. The team can now manage the entire
infrastructure, including clusters running both AHV and ESXi, from
a single window and reduce upgrade times from the two months it
took using traditional infrastructure to just one day with
one-click upgrades from Nutanix.
New users to Cardinal Innovations’ systems resulting from the
merger were also assimilated much faster. Using the Nutanix-powered
Citrix VDI solution, the company shipped pre-configured Chromebooks
to new users, allowing them to connect immediately and reducing
costs for IT support. With the migration to Nutanix, the company
also drastically eliminated VMware licensing fees, adding an
additional savings of up to $60,000 per year.
“The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform allows us to move beyond
being an IT enabler to become an initiator capable of executing
whatever our users demand,” said Robert Edwards, Director of
Technical Infrastructure, Cardinal Innovations Healthcare. “By
reducing the number of vendors we have to work with and
streamlining contract negotiations and support, Nutanix
significantly simplifies management, and we receive nothing but
rave reviews from our users since we moved away from a 3-tier
environment. Nutanix is simply the best infrastructure experience
for building and supporting a datacenter.”
“Facing new demands, IT departments need infrastructure
solutions that can reduce cost and complexity while also delivering
high performance and reliability,” said David Gwyn, Vice President,
Americas East and Latin America at Nutanix. “We’re committed to
helping our customers like Cardinal Innovations Healthcare
transition their workloads to the Nutanix enterprise cloud
platform, eliminating the challenges of traditional infrastructure
so they can focus on delivering more value through the applications
and services that power their business.”
Based on the speed and ease of use of the Nutanix enterprise
cloud platform, it is now the de facto standard for Cardinal
Innovations’ IT infrastructure. The company is slowly consolidating
and replacing its remaining VMware licenses and 3-tier systems as
they reach end of life or expire.
Resources:
- To learn more about Nutanix enterprise
cloud solutions, click here.
- To learn more about Cardinal
Innovations Healthcare’s Nutanix deployment, read our case
study.
About Nutanix
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the applications and services that power their business. The
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solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable
performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust
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