Tokyo, Japan. – April 21, 2016 – Nutanix, a leading enterprise cloud company, today announced that NTT DATA has selected the Nutanix enterprise cloud solution for its system to automate management and to increase IT efficiency in line with the company’s growth in size and complexity.
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The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform was implemented to improve application performance by 50 to 100 percent and to reduce rack spaces from 75U to 15U. Furthermore, the new solution delivered non-disruptive system maintenances and upgrades, cost reduction for datacenters, simplified operation management, and improved service quality.
As Japan’s leading system integrator, NTT DATA Corporation alone has approximately 11,000 employees, and a total of 80,000 employees across the global NTT DATA Group companies in 42 regions and 180 cities worldwide.
Along with several expansions of the systems, NTT DATA had accumulated various server types, specifications, and operating systems. As a result, the System Management Group was tasked to realize automated systems, efficient operations and reduction of total cost of ownership (TCO), while maintaining, or improving, the quality of the system maintenance and operation.
“We had set the goal of reducing 15 percent of operational workloads for corporate information system including operation and maintenance for virtual desktop environment,” said Yusaku Nakajima, Senior Manager of IT Management Office.
Koichi Okuno, Manager of System Management Group said:
“Web-scale and hyperconverged infrastructure are interesting concepts. One of our tasks as an IT division of a technology company is to positively contribute to our business growth and profitability. Our business scheme is to research and implement the leading-edge technologies for ourselves that can be introduced to our clients as a model case. Nutanix has provided us with a highly innovative technology platform for datacenter infrastructure.”
The new Nutanix solution offers NTT DATA the following advantages:
- Cost reduction through less rack use: Rack space was reduced from 75U to 15U. This counts for an 80 percent reduction in space, which also leads to datacenter cost reductions.
- Reduction in management burden through server consolidation
- Improved service quality: “The disk I/O performance was also improved by almost fivefold. The desktop and software responsiveness have improved by 50 to 100 percent” said Satoru Okuno.
“Without the introduction of Nutanix, the goal of a 15 percent reduction of operational workloads in a few months would not have been achieved,” recognized Koichi Okuno. “It all comes down to the word ‘easy’. Implementation was easy and operation is easy,” added Satoru Okuno.