COUNTRY FOCUS : BAHRAIN

The Royal Court in the Kingdom of Bahrain , recently completed the implementation of Nutanix Clusters , as part if its plan to provide a highly available hybrid cloud infrastructure for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure ( VDI ). Indra Zulardi , Infrastructure Network , System and Virtualisation specialist , Royal Court in the Kingdom of Bahrain , tells Intelligent CIO Middle East why it was important for the court to migrate to Nutanix cloud infrastructure solutions .

computing solutions , has announced that the Royal Court in the Kingdom of Bahrain has implemented Nutanix Clusters , which provide a highly available hybrid cloud infrastructure for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure ( VDI ) and critical end-user applications . The solution has increased uptime , simplified operations with an integrated management platform , increased security of the infrastructure and substantially lowered operating expenses ( OPEX ).

Indra Zulardi , Infrastructure Network , System and Virtualisation specialist , Royal Court in the Kingdom of Bahrain , said : “ My team strives for excellence . We have set extremely high standards for ourselves and have entered into a 99.9 % service level agreement ( SLA ) with the Royal Court . But we couldn ’ t guarantee that degree of stability using traditional IT infrastructure . Virtualisation through streamlining our data centres and reducing the number of physical servers brought us partway to our ultimate goal , but it wasn ’ t enough . The best way to achieve our targets was to shift to hyperconverged infrastructure .”

After much market research that helped Zulardi and his team better understand HCI technology providers and how they performed relative to their stated visions , the decision was taken to sign up for a 100-user trial of VMWare Virtual Desktop Infrastructure that ran on the Nutanix Clusters .

“ We tested this Nutanix and VMWare combination on HP and Dell thin clients . Endusers immediately noticed the faster speeds and appreciated the convenience of logging into a full-powered system from any device connected to our network .

“ They enjoyed the same performance on a top-of-the-line desktop as they did on a thin client or a budget laptop . They could take their work with them anywhere , and they could do so without carrying their files on USB sticks because all their data was stored on the VDIs at our data centre ,” said Zulardi .

It was clear that Nutanix accelerated and improved the end-user experience . Nutanix also made it easier to scale the IT

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