Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 16 | Page 58

CASE STUDY Paul Ruinaard, Country Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa at Nutanix NUTANIX IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE BEST INVESTMENT WE HAVE MADE SO FAR. expensive support needed on the traditional IT infrastructure,” said Sewnundun. “Nutanix is without a doubt the best investment we have made so far, not just on the infrastructure components, but on the entire Nutanix software stack. We initially set out to deploy a hyperconverged solution and ended up with a whole lot more than that. In fact, it gave us a fully web-scale solution when everyone is still just talking about starting with hyperconvergence. 58 INTELLIGENTCIO “Our clients are our internal staff (500 employees) and most of them are on Citrix XenDesktop. Login time improved considerably and that was a major relief for them. “But the move to Nutanix was so evident within the IT operations team. They rave about the easy and fast deployment of the network, servers, storage, faster response with servers, simple management of the HCI and a single dashboard with a 360-degree view of what they are managing.” Nutanix’s mission is to make infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. Paul Ruinaard, Country Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa at Nutanix, said that many African countries are looking to the cloud to better solve infrastructure problems without the exorbitant costs of hardware. “Mauritius Union Group truly is leading the charge by embracing a web-scale and cloud environment that ultimately provides it infinite scalability at a fraction of the www.intelligentcio.com