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Sodah highlighted that the solution ’ s selfhealing , patching , data protection , replication , policy enforcement and event logging features have been especially beneficial to the organisation .

“ All this has meant that we have seen a great improvement in the ease of management . Nutanix has reduced the effort needed for managing our environment , which enables my IT team to focus on more valuable tasks ,” he said .

“ We now have zero recovery time objectives ( RTO ) and recovery point objectives ( RPO ) because our primary and Disaster Recovery sites run in active-active mode and are connected by dark fibre .” Nutanix enables VMs to be effortlessly migrated between these sites .

“ Before if we had to do this , we needed multiple experts – one working on the switch , another managing storage and someone else working on the OS . With Nutanix however , this is all seamless as when we update a node , it is automatically updated across all layers ,” he added .

ASE currently hosts nearly 100 VMs on its Nutanix environment and is constantly scaling this deployment . Critical applications that run on Nutanix include all the auxiliary systems for ASE ’ s trading platform as well as the website and its associated database . End users of these applications include brokerage firms , public shareholding companies , data vendors , investors and the Jordan Capital Market ( JCM ).

“ Even though we were carrying out a complete upgrade of our environment to Nutanix , we faced no compatibility issues . This was truly impressive as we were migrating complex , mission-critical system which had been run for years on the previous infrastructure . Given the success of this phase of the deployment , we are now looking to add new services , including mobile apps , web applications and eServices ,” he said . “ Trading is high pressure business and the stakes are high . If say the ticker on our website has even a second ’ s worth of delay , we receive complaints . Real-time processing is key and even milliseconds of latency is unacceptable .”

Sharing an example of how the migration to Nutanix has mitigated such latency issues ,

Sodah pointed out that : “ We observed poor performance in applications like our website and some internal apps and troubleshooting revealed that this was due to slowness in the read / write function of our other hyperconverged solution . When we moved to Nutanix , we saw an immediate and impactful improvement in performance .”

While the ease of management and cost savings that Sodah and his IT team now enjoy are no doubt highlights of the deployment , it is perhaps this enhancement of end-user experiences that ASE values most . “ Ultimately , end-users are not concerned about the environment , the servers or anything else . They simply care about the performance of the applications and that ’ s something they have witnessed a noticeable improvement with ,” said Sodah .

Outlining ASE ’ s ongoing plans to extend its investment with Nutanix , Sodah explained that : “ We have already completed our first expansion milestone which we plan to expand on in the coming years by adding more nodes . As Nutanix ’ s solution has industry-leading deduplication features , it will help us accommodate future growth . We have complete confidence that this solution can serve our business ’ requirements for the next decade .” �

The Amman Stock Exchange recently successfully deployed Nutanix ’ s hyperconverged infrastructurebased Cloud Platform

WE WERE ESPECIALLY IMPRESSED WITH HOW NUTANIX ENSURED HIGH AVAILABILITY AND ENABLED US TO IMPLEMENT STRETCH CLUSTERING BETWEEN DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS .