Chicago Bears IT Staff Scores a Touchdown With the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
January 18 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
High Performance Solution’s Simplicity and
Scalability Cut Down Deployment Time and Give the Sports Team More
Time to Focus on Football
Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing,
announced today that the Chicago Bears have deployed the Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud for their mission-critical applications, including
Microsoft SQL Server databases, financial reporting software, and
an internally-developed player scouting application. The Nutanix
solution has simplified system management and improved performance,
enabling the Bears IT staff to reduce time spent on deploying and
managing infrastructure and improve coaches and players’ training
and preparation experiences.
The switch to Nutanix was a result of an assessment, which
determined that the Bears’ 3-tier infrastructure was
over-allocated. As a result the team decided to deploy a
hyperconverged solution for its Microsoft SQL Server databases,
financial reporting software, and player scouting application.
Improvements enabled by the Chicago Bears’ use of the Nutanix
solution include:
- Seamlessly Expand Deployment to the
Training Camp: After moving to the Nutanix solution, the Bears
IT staff was able to inexpensively expand their enterprise cloud to
their training camp at Olivet Nazarene University (ONU), and no
longer physically move infrastructure there from the main office at
Halas Hall. By cutting down the time needed to migrate the
infrastructure, the IT team was able to let the coaches use their
applications and player information as soon as they were ready at
the main office.
- Simpler, More Comprehensive
Reporting: With their previous architecture, IT reporting was
ad hoc, requiring numerous hours of an IT administrator’s time for
each report. The Nutanix Prism management solution provides the IT
staff with a complete picture of what their current storage and
service environment looks like and how it is performing, saving
time while providing a level of maturity and visibility into their
system that they didn’t previously have.
- Exponentially Reducing the Time
Needed to Create New VMs: Previously it took a couple of hours
for the Bears IT staff to spin up VMs. With Nutanix, they can get
spin up a VM in a matter of minutes.
“Limiting deployment and gaining extra coaching time is
invaluable to our team and gives us more flexibility,” said Justin
Stahl, VP of IT for the Chicago Bears. “Whatever edge a
professional sports team can gain is key. Nutanix helps make IT
invisible to our staff and coaches, so they can focus more on
what’s important—pushing the football team forward.”
Helping Coaches, Players and IT Staff Focus on
Football
The switch to Nutanix has had a significant positive impact on
coaches, players and the IT staff’s technology experiences, during
the off-season, training camp, and in-season. In particular, apps
run faster, resulting in less frustration for end-users and fewer
help desk tickets sent to the IT staff.
An Enterprise Cloud Ready for the Future
In addition to saving time and delivering performance
improvements today, the Bears IT staff believes the Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud operating software prepares the team for its
future needs. Based on a successful trial with the Nutanix AHV
hypervisor, the team is considering adding it to the main office at
Halas Hall in the hopes of greater cost savings and increased
simplicity. Through the trial, the IT team has already eliminated
separate licensing costs and found Nutanix AHV easier to use than
the previous hypervisor.
The team is also hoping to improve its disaster recovery (DR)
solutions to replace its current process of backing data up to
tape. As part of this goal, the Bears have signed up to be on the
Beta list for the forthcoming Nutanix Xi DR as a Service
offering.
The Nutanix solution will also help the team rapidly deploy new
applications in the future, possibly including advanced IoT
applications that collect player-impact tracking data, which could
be used to further analyze player performance.
“As we continue to receive more demands on our IT systems, we
need to deploy a solution that we can trust,” said Stahl. “The NFL
has discussed multiple new IT initiatives including organizing the
NFL player’s impact-tracking data, which comes from sensors in the
player’s pads and in the balls on gameday. Regardless of the
challenges the future will bring with this project or others, I
believe that Nutanix technology will prepare us for whatever lies
ahead.”
“With the increased use of technologies like wearables and IoT
in sports, it has become essential for athletic organizations to
respond by transforming their legacy environments into the next
generation to gain a competitive edge,” said Keith Moran, Vice
President, Central US Nutanix. “By gaining additional field time
and improving application responsiveness and uptime through
Nutanix, the Chicago Bears have experienced major benefits from the
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS. The changes in their IT setup are
ultimately helping to set the Bears’ coaches and players up for
long term competitive advantage.”
About Nutanix
Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on
the applications and services that power their business. The
Nutanix Enterprise OS Cloud Software leverages web-scale
engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute,
virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined
solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable
performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust
security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of
enterprise applications and services. Learn more at www.nutanix.com
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