With aging servers that were starting to fail constantly, Chris had little time for anything but daily repairs. What’s worse, he was working 80+ hours a week just trying to keep the massive platform afloat, cancelling plans with friends and family to make sure the network was running and secure. “I was putting Band-Aids on everything from improperly running back-ups to inefficient SANs. I was also coming in at night, on weekends and during pre-planned family activities, and I simply needed more work-life balance. I needed a tool that could do it all.”
The Challenge
With aging servers that were starting to fail constantly, Chris had little time for anything but daily repairs. What’s worse, he was working 80+ hours a week just trying to keep the massive platform afloat, cancelling plans with friends and family to make sure the network was running and secure.
“I was putting Band-Aids on everything from improperly running back-ups to inefficient SANs. I was also coming in at night, on weekends and during pre-planned family activities, and I simply needed more work-life balance. I needed a tool that could do it all.”
The Solution
Elevity’s industry knowledge, responsiveness and planning helped Chris feel confident that the Nutanix hyperconverged platform was the right solution for NRC. Since the deployment, almost 95% of NRC’s production and development now runs on Nutanix. Back-ups that previously took three days are now completed in less than 24 hours. Key back-ups take just 2 hours compared to full weekends on the old infrastructure. NRC has also reduced the total number of servers from 163 to just 77. And the Nutanix hypervisor saves them thousands of dollars in licensing costs
The Results
Nutanix is a three-fold success story at NRC because it replaced aging infrastructure, improved work-life balance and is driving ROI for the business. Now that Chris is available to take on proactive technology projects, including a critical Office 365 migration (which Elevity also assisted with) and a SharePoint upgrade, the technology environment at NRC is now vastly improved.
“The move to Nutanix allowed me to break the daily reactive maintenance cycle of our legacy systems. I’m now able to proactively clean up the old environment, combine servers, and take on other important technology initiatives. Working with Elevity throughout the process has made our transition to Nutanix not only possible, but virtually seamless.”
“The Elevity team has tremendous industry knowledge, especially in the cloud space, and their responsiveness and planning assistance was crucial to our successful transition to Nutanix.”
- Chris Hippensteel, Network and System Administrator
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