Nutanix Boosts Operational Efficiency for College of Business, City University of Hong Kong
December 06 2017 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Enables Better IT
Efficiency, Scalability and Removes Administrative Waste
Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing,
today announced that City University of Hong Kong’s College of
Business has boosted operational efficiency since July 2016, as a
result of the deployment of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
Platform.
Implementing the Nutanix solution has resulted in greater
operational effectiveness of the IT environment at the university.
Virtual desktop log-on times have improved by more than 50 percent
with 20 percent faster desktop provisioning. Playing HD quality
YouTube videos as part of the lectures and tutorials has used 30
percent less CPU power on its Nutanix platform than the previous
legacy infrastructure.
Providing a superior learning experience is imperative for the
City University of Hong Kong’s College of Business. In order to
cater to an expanding student base, City University needed a more
agile IT infrastructure to support the setup of two more teaching
laboratories in addition to their existing four laboratories. They
decided on the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform because of its
simplicity when running projects in a virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI). The ability to scale up easily while allowing
detailed performance analytics, fast deployment time and high
read-write performance were critical, as these are key factors
required in an educational institution where hundreds of students
are accessing information at any given time.
“Nutanix was an ideal solution because it addressed all the
challenges unique to an educational institution while cutting down
our IT costs and boosting efficiency. Previously, we had a legacy
multi-tier VDI server infrastructure comprising solutions from
multiple vendors. This included a total of 17 rack units of blade
servers, storage systems and fibre-channel SAN switches. All that
has been whittled down to just two rack units of Nutanix that
handle computing and storage, thus freeing up over 70 percent of
the rack space we previously used. One year in, we’ve seen
very positive results which have benefitted both our staff and
students,” said Mr. Adams CHAN, Senior Manager, City University
Hong Kong.
With the Nutanix solution, the system update took merely three
hours in a fully automated and unattended process - a quarter of
the time it took previously to update the system with the legacy
infrastructure. This meant that the IT administrators have time to
focus on more value-added tasks.
“We are happy that City University is now enjoying faster
performance, higher reliability and reduced IT management overhead
by using the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Nutanix has extensive
experience providing tertiary institutions with solutions that
cater to their unique requirements, and we are now looking to
expand our collaboration with City University as they continue to
enhance their IT infrastructure,” said Matt Young, SVP and Head of
APJ at Nutanix.
About Nutanix
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the applications and services that power their business. The
Nutanix Enterprise OS Cloud Software leverages web-scale
engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute,
virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined
solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable
performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust
security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of
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NutanixLuica Mak, +44 790 547 1332Senior Communications
Manager,luica.mak@nutanix.comorThe Hoffman Agency for NutanixRose
Chan, +852 2231 8120rchan@hoffman.com
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