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up ’ technology which limited our expansion plans . After a thorough study , we decided to opt for ‘ scale out ’ hyperconverged infrastructure from Nutanix , which providing best infrastructure and removes all limitations , so we can keep growing and gradually phase out the old hardware .”
With a move from a physical to a virtualised environment , along with the Nutanix solution , the IT team at Bunduq also deployed Veeam software for modern data protection and SAP HANA multi‐model database . Both Veeam and SAP HANA have certified integrations with Nutanix .
After the Nutanix implementation , the first benefit seen was enhanced application performance . The various oil related simulation applications and software
We have one more project in the pipeline – building the SAP cluster as a Disaster Recovery service in Microsoft Azure .
that were sluggish in the earlier environment saw a 50 % performance increase with Nutanix due to the latest processor being used , and all the data reading happening through SSD drives .
Flexibility was another big benefit . Simulation applications require huge amounts of data and
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