CASE STUDY
Paul Ruinaard,
Country Manager,
Sub-Saharan Africa at
Nutanix
NUTANIX IS WITHOUT A DOUBT
THE BEST INVESTMENT WE HAVE
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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.
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“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
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