Fraser Coast Regional Council Reduces Outage Risk, Shrinks Datacentre Space by 60 Per Cent Through Nutanix
April 26 2017 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform Enables
Efficient CCTV Deployment and Frees IT Team to Provide Greater
Services to Community
Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing,
today announced that Fraser Coast Regional Council has deployed the
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform in place of an outdated
three-tier storage area network (SAN) and blade server
infrastructure, reducing its risk of outage and freeing up its IT
team to do more for the community.
Located in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, the
Council is in an area prone to flooding, which carries a risk of
outages in its primary datacentre. Previously, its back-up
datacentre was not equipped to quickly take on workloads in the
event of a flood or another disaster. Such an outage could leave
more than 100,000 citizens unable to access vital external services
such as online mapping and seriously impact the Council’s ability
to operate internally.
The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, now operating in both the
primary and secondary datacentre, has reduced this risk. It has
also freed up the Council’s 17-strong IT team to do more for the
community – for example, members of the team are now assisting
Queensland Police in deploying CCTV cameras to monitor troubled
areas reported by citizens.
Fraser Coast Regional Council chose to deploy Nutanix because it
could provide greater simplicity, scalability, higher performance,
lower CAPEX costs and increased resilience in its primary and
secondary datacentres. It considered other options – including
SimpliVity, Cisco Hyperflex and a more modern SAN and blade server
infrastructure, before realising Nutanix was the best fit for its
needs.
The Council was also attracted by Nutanix’s ability to provide
its own hypervisor, Nutanix AHV, which it will likely consider
within the next year. Within the next 2 years, it is also
considering VDI to free up council workers to work remotely and
spend more time in the community. It will also potentially move
more workloads into the public cloud and feels Nutanix will be best
placed to be at the centre of a hybrid cloud environment.
“Three words come to mind when I think of Nutanix – it just
works,” said Wade Rogers, Executive Manager Information Services,
Fraser Coast Regional Council. “We don’t touch it and we don’t need
to tweak it in any way. Being able to move workloads quickly in the
event of a disaster is a huge relief, and we’ve saved a ton of
storage space with deduplication and compression, which has taken
the pressure out of our datacentres.
“The real benefits though, are in the infrastructure management
time it’s created, enabling us to roll out projects that we
expected wouldn’t have even started yet. We can also be of greater
service to the community in areas such as the provision of CCTV.
Simply put, we have more resources and can respond better to the
community’s needs.”
The Council has upwards of 600 users across its network who rely
on its applications – including Microsoft SQL, ERP, Financials,
Asset Management and HR apps – along with many web services like
recruitment, event booking and online mapping used by its citizens.
The majority are now all running successfully on the Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud Platform.
Since the deployment, the Council has recorded 45 per cent
savings in storage capacity through deduplication and compression
in its primary datacentre, and 26 per cent savings in storage
capacity in its secondary datacentre. Cloning of virtual machine
(VM) guests has gone from five minutes down to less than one, and
the physical space used in both datacentres has decreased in total
by 60 per cent.
“Nutanix has vast experience working with local councils in
Australia and across the world,” said Matt Young, SVP and Head of
APJ, Nutanix. “We pride ourselves with the way we simplify
datacentres, so our customers can focus on more meaningful and
innovative tasks that add value to the organisations and end-users.
In this case, our enterprise cloud solution helps enable better
safety and more desirable community services to over 100,000
residents in Fraser Coast Council. We are pleased to see an
effective use of IT can bring such a positive impact to the
masses.”
About Nutanix
Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on
the applications and services that power their business. The
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform leverages web-scale engineering
and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute,
virtualisation 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. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us
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