CASE STUDY much of the data is hard to access and in fragmented data stores that require manual extraction and then manipulation in spreadsheets etc . to normalize and then turn into graphs and tables that can be put into static reports . Our promise is to make our data transparent and accessible to our customers and internal staff so they can relieve themselves from having to manually extract information so they can focus on higher value work in creating insights from the information .
Why did you decide to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy ?
We found that a pure cloud strategy was not realistic or cost effective . To move our workloads to a public cloud solution using IAAS products would have increased our costs by 50 % compared to a hybrid cloud solution . We use cloud for SaaS and PaaS solutions because they are cost effective and enable rapid development and deployment . They remove the need for IT staff focusing on upgrading and maintaining the boring bits of our systems because the cloud provider does that for us . However , for many applications , we are the experts , the solutions are very specific to our business or require careful management and oversight of the way they are configured and for these we require more control and the investment in IT staff is justified . In these cases , IaaS offers no significant benefits in IT staff effort and the Nutanix solution is cost effective , modern and automated .
To what sense has the operating model given you the best of both worlds ?
The best of both worlds means constantly optimizing where we spend our money and accelerating delivery to meeting business demand . An on-premises solution fits well for applications we understand well and are well equipped to maintain , whereas the cloud offers highly capable productized solutions that we can leverage to a speed and cost advantage when we can build or configure them to meet our needs . Much of our new advanced analytics will be done on cloud solutions , but much of our core transaction systems and data capture tools are better suited to on-premises .
How far is the system delivering on your objectives ?
We have removed over A $ 500k of cost per annum from our cloud environment and delivered a cloud like experience for our infrastructure team managing our onpremises environment with our investment in Nutanix . We have fixed our Disaster Recovery problems by building a highly resilient failover solution and have enabled a single seamless domain to manage our internal applications on . Finally , the transformation of our data center has meant we have modernized the operating system , database versions and application releases so we have a hardened and fully patched data center to work with .
It is a great platform to launch our future application development plans from and means we are not chasing our tails trying to keep things running but focused on adding value to our business .
Why did you choose to work with Nutanix ?
Because they won our tender in the market and proved to us that deployment could be achieved in a realistic timeframe and was significantly cheaper than a cloud only solution or other competing offers in the market . •
NUTANIX ’ S CONSOLIDATED APPROACH MEANS WE CAN EMULATE THE CLOUD
CAPABILITIES IN-HOUSE WITHOUT A HUGE AMOUNT OF EFFORT .
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