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Nutanix , a leader in hybrid and
multicloud computing , has announced that Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation , the largest privately held mortgage company in the U . S , is implementing Nutanix to improve its virtual desktop infrastructure as well as simplify and automate infrastructure management to support the company ’ s goal of delivering best-in-class customer service .
To deliver on its goal , Fairway needed to provide employees with the fastest , best and easiest-to-use applications which could often be a challenge with its old IT infrastructure . The small team of admins was often required to work weekends to keep up with the hands-on management and timeconsuming upgrades . With more than 8,600 employees the company knew it needed a new IT infrastructure that could support its growing workload and simplify operations .
“ Nutanix makes it much easier to narrow down the source of any performance issues ,” said Jarod Hallmark , VP of IT Infrastructure at Fairway . “ At Fairway , we don ’ t have the luxury of having a separate ops team that spends all day focusing on system and application performance . With the centralized management we get with Prism , our team can now spend their time creating new applications , not just monitoring existing ones .”
The company considered several technology options but selected Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure to power its private cloud environment thanks to the management simplicity and one-click upgrades that would allow the company to do more with its existing IT staff .
Fairway now has approximately 250 Nutanix nodes across three different sites supporting its VDI workloads , infrastructure and application development environments , MS Exchange , MS SQL , custom file servers , web servers , Active Directory and DNS servers .
To further simplify and automate operations , the company also selected Prism operation ’ s tier ( Pro ), Nutanix ’ s IT infrastructure AIOps solution , as well as Calm , Nutanix ’ s automation solution . Prism enables them to perform automated optimization , proactive remediation and
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