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“ We ’ ve achieved an almost three-fold reduction in our hardware count with Nutanix . We ’ ve gone from four storage arrays to none , from two data centers full of racks to around four racks per site , and the people hours we ’ ve saved in maintaining the environment have been significant .”
Johnston said he implemented Nutanix alongside trusted IT partner MOQdigital while completing a data-center migration to a co-location facility . While the primary aim was to decrease the amount of hardware RACQ required , he chose Nutanix as it would not only significantly reduce the data center footprint – it would do so while improving performance and providing a platform for the company ’ s focus on emerging technologies , including AI and robot processes .
“ We absolutely needed to ensure we had no impact on performance , as we ’ re running core workloads including insurance and financial systems , as well as membership databases and our CRM ,” he said . “ I now have a team who no longer have to run hardware as their primary day job ; instead , they ’ re now providing more value by developing our capabilities in the automation , orchestration , security and optimization spaces .”
Johnston said these efficiency improvements were forecast to save RACQ A $ 500,000 over the next five years while also accelerating its ability to develop new services five-fold .
“ Previously , whenever the developers came to my team and needed to provision new infrastructure , we ’ d target a turnaround of five days – we ’ re aiming to drop that to just a day .”
This reduction is due to a burgeoning cloud management mentality among Johnston ’ s IT team .
“ Not only have we greatly reduced infrastructure overheads , we ’ ve also gained private cloud capabilities
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