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COUNTRY FOCUS : JORDAN to secure ices for s ministry ’ s email environment comprised of Exchange 2010 built on four physical servers configured in mailbox roles connected to Dell SAN Storage , eight VMs configured as client access servers ( CAS ) and a HUB server built on a Hyper-V cluster . With tens of thousands of email accounts running on this infrastructure a number of hardware resources , as well as monitoring and management limitations arose .

Nutanix stood out for its ability to offer the most compute resources and storage at a more attractive price point and in a small form factor .
“ Because of these shortcomings , the critical process of recovering a mailbox could take anywhere between four to 10 hours depending on its size ,” said Farrayih . “ And when we needed to add more users to accommodate the ever-growing needs of the government entities we serve , we faced difficulty in expanding the clusters .”
Having most of its cloud services , as well as its entire Disaster Recovery ( DR ) environment based on Nutanix , MoDEE was confident that migrating Microsoft Exchange to Nutanix would address these pressing challenges . As a government entity however , MoDEE did its due diligence in thoroughly vetting solutions from other global leading vendors . Key evaluation
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