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Carmichael said these cost savings were just the tip of the iceberg as previous implementations had drastically reduced the University ’ s IT expenses and infrastructure needs .
“ Using Nutanix to implement our private cloud was a major reason we were able to replace our disaster recovery ( DR ) datacentre with a micro datacentre ,” he said . “ This meant when we needed a new DR facility , it only required three racks of space instead of the existing 24 – this led to us being able to repurpose around $ 2 million of IT budget .”
“ Further , we ’ ve been able to consolidate the server and storage assets we need by 78 % which led to an additional projected cost avoidance of more than $ 1.5 million as we didn ’ t have to purchase all that new equipment .”
particularly with seamless one-click upgrades . Previously , our traditional infrastructure meant we had all these different hoops you had to jump through .”
While the positive financial and operational impacts have enabled UC to invest in enhancing the student learning experience , Carmichael said one of the greatest benefits had stemmed from improving the quality of its teaching in the areas of AI and Deep Learning .
“ We recently added undergraduate specialist majors in Robotics , AI and Data Science , a Masters in Data Science and Post Graduate specialisations in AI and Machine Learning . To teach these courses effectively requires a significantly increased capacity for GPUenabled computing resources ,” Carmichael said .
Carmichael said that as existing infrastructure reached the end of its lifecycle , workloads previously running on three-tier architecture were migrated to Nutanix . Today , more than 90 % of the University ’ s private cloud applications run on Nutanix Cloud Platform – including the key student management , finance , human resources , and database systems .
“ What we saw as we migrated more workloads to Nutanix was massive consolidation in the IT hardware we needed – we saw shrinking in our datacentre footprint requirements almost immediately ,” he said . “ It was also much easier to manage and support ,
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