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WE ’ VE TAKEN A SLOW BUT STEADY APPROACH TO NUTANIX . WE COULD HAVE MOVED EVERYTHING OVER IMMEDIATELY , BUT WE WANTED TO GET OUR INFRASTRUCTURE RIGHT AND GET EVERYONE , FROM END-USERS TO MANAGEMENT , EXCITED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES OF HCI .
specific VDIs from a single pane of glass . Using intuitive dashboards , they can also add RAM , CPUs and storage at a push of a button . If a virtual machine crashes , it can be restored in a matter of minutes .
Zulardi commented : “ Nutanix has reduced our number of headaches and increased our uptime . We haven ’ t had an incident with our hardware ever since we adopted the platform . We ’ ve never even submitted a support ticket .”
Giving an insight into future plans , Zulardi said that the next step is to refresh the Nutanix cluster . The existing setup is at 75 % capacity and more infrastructure is needed to move all of the Royal Court ’ s staff to VDIs .
Nutanix Files , a software-defined scale-out file storage solution , is also going to be added to the mix of products next year to improve data sharing with NFS and iSCSI functionality and to scale archival storage .
“ We ’ ve taken a slow but steady approach to Nutanix . We could have moved everything over immediately , but we wanted to get our infrastructure right and get everyone , from end-users to management , excited about the possibilities of HCI . After all , we ’ re not just another company .
In serving our King , the Royal Family and the Royal Court of Bahrain , my team helps our nation inspire people in the Middle East and around the world through our leadership in business , industry and culture . Having laid the right technology foundation for our operations , there ’ s no limit to what we can accomplish ,” said Zulardi . •
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