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After identifying any issues , The Home Depot can now shift capacity from one cluster to another to provide an ‘ infrastructure-as-code ’ management experience .
Consolidating teams
By moving to Nutanix , The Home Depot was able to consolidate its server , storage and virtualization teams into a single , operations group .
Prism Pro provides the combined team with full visibility into the entire environment , rather than aggregating information from separately managed infrastructure silos .
A ‘ justifiably famous ’ support experience
“ The Nutanix Support team has been impressive ,” Priest stated . “ When you call in with an issue , you ’ re immediately connected to someone who actually understands your problem . With many IT vendors , you progress from someone who is only there to route your call , to a second person who can take notes on your case , and then hopefully to another person who ’ s able to solve your problems . Nutanix has set the standard of what customer-centric technology support should look like .”
Applications on-prem or the cloud
“ The ‘ people benefits ’ with Nutanix are just as impressive as the reduction in TCO ,” explained Priest .
The Home Depot is currently running a mix of workloads on-prem and in the cloud .
“ By consolidating teams , our admins are finally able to see the bigger picture . Server specialists can now make suggestions about our virtual infrastructure , and storage experts offering feedback on our servers .
“ The consolidated team has unleashed a wave of innovation across the organization .”
Empowering application developers
The Home Depot recently deployed a dedicated Nutanix environment for its database teams and is encouraging the teams to participate in the management of the infrastructure .
“ Since Prism Pro is so easy to use , we told the database engineers they could quickly learn to manage their own environments and monitor capacity utilization ,” said Priest .
“ We do know that it ’ s easier to do infrastructure in the external cloud , but cloud costs are variable and must be managed differently ,” said Priest . “ Nutanix has equipped us to enhance our decision on when to run something externally or on internal servers and that has made a fundamental difference for us .”
A true partnership for innovation
“ Nutanix not only converges technologies ; their software has enabled us to converge infrastructure , teams and opportunities ,” concluded Priest . “ By combining IT specialists into a single operations group , we can now see our end-to-end IT environment , work collaboratively and make better decisions for the business . Our partnership with Nutanix makes IT visibility , efficiency and innovation possible .” p
“ They really like the ability to see their VMs , servers and storage , with detailed forecasting that shows when they ’ re likely to run out of resources .
“ It enables them to proactively ensure application performance and formulate more accurate budgets for their projects .”
Enabling the admins
The Home Depot is now able to train its combined operations team members on one , standardized hyperconverged platform .
“ The Nutanix training team has been a great help in adopting the new technology . Education helps overcome any fears of adopting a new platform and ensures that we are using best practices ,” acknowledged Priest .
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