CASE STUDY
ASI Cloud and Nutanix
Cloud and managed service provider ASI Solutions launched ASI Cloud in New Zealand in 2023 as a new MSP offering built on the Nutanix cloud platform .
At the time , ASI was pitched as a platform providing a public-cloud like experience at around half the price of the hyperscalers with all data hosted and managed in New Zealand .
Nutanix Cloud Platform offers customers the full suite of Nutanix services including infrastructureas-a-service , database-as-a-service and disaster recovery-as-a-service .
At launch , ASI Solutions country manager Lloyd Vickery said : “ Councils across New Zealand are constantly being asked to do more with less . This is a great solution for them because it ’ s cost-effective , they retain complete control – and it gives them a pathway to consume other cloud services over time as they increasingly move apps to SaaS providers and explore hybrid multicloud environments .”
To avoid cloud lock-in , customers can use ASI Solution ’ s cloud management tools to deploy
workloads to multiple cloud providers and freely migrate between them .
ASI Cloud is currently delivered from multiple locations in New Zealand – primarily the newly-built CDC datacentres that guarantee 100 % availability and are certified carbon neutral .
ASI Cloud is providing instantaneous data recovery in Auckland , and “ near synchronous ” recovery across the country .
ASI Solutions plans to expand ASI Cloud into Australia in coming months .
Michael Magura , vice president partner sales at Nutanix APJ , pitches the platform as a great example of local innovation and was ideal for local councils , higher education providers and the SMB corporate sector .
“ Our partnership with ASI Solutions stretches over a decade , and they have always held the highest levels of certification on the Nutanix platform ,” Magura said . migration was completed without complex and costly application rearchitecting .
“ Some of our business-critical applications , like Enterprise Resource Planning and asset management , were never designed with cloud in mind ,” said Mileham .
“ With ASI Cloud and Nutanix , we were able to easily migrate these applications from our on-premise environment to their datacentre with little complication . ASI also offered disaster recovery capabilities with replication to another site on New Zealand ' s South Island which gave us a lot of confidence ,” he said .
Without having to maintain on-premise infrastructure , the Council ' s IT team can invest time back into critical areas such as enhancing cybersecurity , improving network infrastructure and adopting new technologies .
One of the biggest benefits compared to other cloud alternatives , according to Mileham , was ASI Cloud ’ s in-country presence .
" As a local government authority , keeping our data close to home was critical , not just from a data sovereignty perspective but also for connectivity reasons .
“ Some of our applications are still legacy and designed to run on a LAN , so partnering with ASI gives us fast and reliable service while ensuring we ’ re complying with local regulations .”
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