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The Home Depot , the World ’ s largest home improvement retailer , standardizes on Nutanix to accelerate software development and reduce TCO to create a better customer experience .
The Home Depot partners with Nutanix to drive IT innovation
The Home Depot ’ s legacy IT infrastructure was slow , difficult to manage , and expensive to procure and maintain . The Home Depot ’ s IT team started the search for a more cost-effective IT solution that would provide better performance , enable rapid scalability and simplify delivery of all enterprise workloads .
Business benefits
By moving to Nutanix , The Home Depot has been able to consolidate its technology infrastructure and merge its server , storage and virtualization teams . The new unified operations group can now optimize and manage the entire infrastructure stack from a single console , driving IT innovation across the company .
The Home Depot has also reduced TCO with this platform by double digits and shortened the time to provision new capacity from three weeks to one hour , reducing infrastructure costs and enabling developers to more quickly deploy new applications to internal users and customers . work , with a strong and unwavering commitment to providing the industry ’ s best products and exemplary customer service .
In order to achieve these goals and continue to grow , IT innovation is more important than ever for The Home Depot . From inventory tracking , to online ordering , to supply chain management – The Home Depot is always looking for new ways to improve productivity and operational efficiency for its vast retail store and e-commerce business .
The Home Depot also believes in cultivating strong relationships with all of its vendors , built on a solid platform of trust , honesty and integrity . The vendors chosen by The Home Depot are those that offer the best solutions and services the industry has to offer , coupled with the desire and willingness to work as true business and technology partners .
The Home Depot difference
The Home Depot lives by a simple premise : Put customers and associates first , and the rest will take care of itself . By holding true to its values and corporate vision , The Home Depot has grown exponentially from just two stores in Atlanta , Georgia , in 1979 , to become the world ’ s largest home improvement retailer today .
The company currently employs nearly 400,000 associates and operates more than 2,200 stores in the US , Canada and Mexico .
It also has a very successful e-commerce business that offers more than one million products to its doit-yourself customers and professional contractors throughout North America , The Home Depot has obtained its great success through decades of hard
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