City of Cape Coral Relies on Nutanix to Run Life-Saving Applications During Emergencies
November 08 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
New Solution Increases Application Reliability
and Availability to Better Protect Citizens
Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing,
today announced that the City of Cape Coral, one of the largest
cities in Florida, is leveraging the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS
software, including the AHV hypervisor, to help the city better
prepare for and respond to disasters and ensure all emergency
service applications run efficiently. By utilizing their Nutanix
solution, the team is able to seamlessly access their
mission-critical applications and keep pace with other
technological advancements in government, fire and police
department applications. In addition, the solution frees the team’s
time so they no longer only have to focus on day-to-day IT
infrastructure operations and management. They now have more time
to spend on strategic initiatives, such as new software
applications, process improvement initiatives and new projects.
Before deploying Nutanix, Cape Coral’s IT team had multiple data
centers and solutions that were complex and required many different
skillsets to manage. The applications the team is running on
Nutanix go beyond traditional IT support and provide the city with
numerous services, including ERP, land management applications, GIS
and public safety software operations. In particular, when natural
disasters, like Hurricane Irma, strike, they must ensure continued
reliability and accessibility of public safety applications for the
police and fire department including computer-aided dispatch (CAD),
records management software for mobile software along with evidence
retention archives. Cape Coral needed a manageable, efficient
solution that would reliably ensure the safety of its 180,000
citizens.
After experiencing the ease of management of Nutanix first-hand,
they quickly moved all production systems and mission-critical
applications to Nutanix. They virtualized 98% of their environment
and are now using AHV, the Nutanix built-in hypervisor, providing
heightened simplicity and performance and eliminating costly
licensing fees.
Since deploying the Nutanix solution, the Cape Coral team has
not only been able to keep its infrastructure up-to-date with the
latest technological advancements, they’ve also seen increased
reliability and availability of vital emergency services and
applications, which allows the team to better help citizens in the
case of a disaster. When Hurricane Irma hit, the team had to move
their entire datacenter to a new location in a four-hour period.
Using Nutanix, the team has created an offsite disaster recovery
center with Nutanix software, which makes it easy for the city to
quickly and easily failover critical applications, keeping them
available and running in case of an emergency.
“It’s our responsibility to make sure that our police and fire
department’s life-saving systems are always ready with back-ups in
place and viable,” said Matt Vilord, ITC Manager, City of Cape
Coral. “With lives on the line, Nutanix has been the answer to
everything—it works, it doesn’t fail, it sets up easily, it’s
easily manageable, and it maintains itself. The solution has
enabled us to vastly improve public safety for our citizens and
understand our unique needs and challenges. We have an excellent
partnership with Nutanix that I fully expect to grow over
time.”
“City governments are increasingly thinking about moving to
advanced technology solutions and infrastructures that allow them
to better serve and protect their citizens,” said John Pellettiere,
National Sales Director, SLED, Nutanix. “The city of Cape Coral’s
deployment of Nutanix clearly demonstrates the benefits of an
efficient, reliable, modern infrastructure. When emergency services
reliability and public safety are at stake, it’s crucial to have
infrastructure and a partner you can count on.”
About Nutanix
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infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that
IT can focus on the applications and services that power their
business. Companies around the world use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
OS software to bring one-click application management and mobility
across public, private and distributed edge clouds so they can run
any application at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost
of ownership. The result is organizations that can rapidly deliver
a high-performance IT environment on demand, giving application
owners a true cloud-like experience. Learn more at www.nutanix.com
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