Berkeley Embarks on a Digital Transformation with Nutanix to Power the City of the Future
January 27 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Nutanix Solutions Enable the City to Increase
the Scalability and Reliability of its Datacenter Infrastructure to
Meet the City’s Growing Technology Need and Continuity Services
Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in private cloud, hybrid and
multicloud computing, announced today that the City of Berkeley has
implemented Nutanix software solutions to increase the scalability
and reliability of their infrastructure as part of a large project
to modernize the city IT systems to better respond to current and
future demands. The IT infrastructure was recently put to the test
when the city had to implement several new technology-driven
initiatives as part of their pandemic response.
The City of Berkeley, located in Northern California, supports a
community of up to approximately 120,000 people. The IT team is
responsible for supporting a variety of departments such as police,
fire, public works planning and, uniquely compared to other
municipalities, the health services and housing and community
services departments. Berkeley’s legacy infrastructure was not able
to support the city’s increasing technology demands, which led them
to a broad IT modernization project to enable the team to support
current and future demands. The city’s IT needs quickly spiked in
response to the pandemic with an increase in demand for
technologies and resources to support employees and the community
at large. Nutanix was able to deliver the scalability and
efficiency needed to support their growing needs.
“As we continue to go through major system transitions and adapt
to this changing world, we now have the capability to scale up our
infrastructure and support the new initiatives and solutions for
our growing needs and services,” said Savita Chaudhary, Director of
IT, City of Berkeley. “With Nutanix, we have been able to adapt
during these unprecedented times and provide our employees with the
resources and tools needed to work from home, as well as support
telehealth and contact tracing projects, all while continuing to
provide the highest level of service to our community.”
Prior to implementing Nutanix, the City of Berkeley had a
traditional three-tier infrastructure that was unscalable and
unreliable. The legacy infrastructure was complex to troubleshoot,
sometimes resulting in long-lasting outages, during which the
city’s departments had to rely on pen and paper. This was not a
sustainable solution as the IT infrastructure supports critical
services, including CAD 911, asset management and ERP.
Nutanix has not only provided the City of Berkeley a more
reliable and scalable infrastructure that is easy for its lean IT
team to manage, but it has also provided an accessible disaster
recovery (DR) solution, something of vital importance in
earthquake-prone California. Prior to implementing Nutanix, the
City of Berkeley did not have any DR in place. With Nutanix Xi Leap
implemented, the city can now deliver continuity of service in the
event of a planned or unplanned failover.
Nutanix also enabled Berkeley to easily adapt to changing
demands. When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, the city had zero
remote workers. With Nutanix already implemented, they were able to
seamlessly support approximately 700 employees to work from home.
The pandemic brought new obstacles as the team had to support more
and more technology to properly serve their community. The IT staff
can now focus on delivering new technology solutions to the
departments instead of worrying about managing the datacenter
running on Nutanix infrastructure.
Another priority for the City of Berkeley was environmental
sustainability. Since implementing Nutanix, the city has had an
about 50% reduction in their hardware footprint that resulted in
significant savings in power consumption, thus reducing the carbon
footprint.
“The City of Berkeley’s Department of IT’s mission is to provide
cost effective, smart technology solutions to their business
partners and community with integrity and commitment to excellence.
Nutanix solutions have given them the tools they need to fulfill
this mission,” said Chip George, VP Public Sector, Nutanix.
“Fulfilling the needs of their community is one of the team's top
priorities and with Nutanix they are able to do this for their
current IT needs and feel prepared for whatever new challenges may
come their way.”
With Nutanix, the City of Berkeley is able to leverage
technology to have a positive impact on the city and the community
as a whole. To learn more about Nutanix solutions for state and
local agencies, please visit nutanix.com/state-local.
About Nutanix
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in
hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible
anywhere. Organizations around the world use Nutanix software to
leverage a single platform to manage any app at any location at any
scale for their private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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