COUNTRY FOCUS : JORDAN
Abdallah Farrayih , Head , Operation , MoDEE
criteria included the solution ’ s ability to reduce or eliminate downtime , ensure compatibility with existing systems , and save the IT team time and effort by simplifying management and administration .
“ Nutanix stood out for its ability to offer the most compute resources and storage at a more attractive price point and in a small form factor . They convincingly demonstrated how data migration and expansion could be effortlessly accommodated and offered us the freedom to use any of the most popular hypervisors ,” he said . “ When you consider that we need to reliably deliver email services for over 50,000 users , the lower resource requirements , lower size and thereby power consumption and simplified management benefits that are made possible by Nutanix are all exponentially amplified .”
After a seamless implementation , MoDEE ’ s IT team successfully migrated user mailboxes to the new environment , a process Farrayih described as ‘ very reliable and easy to deploy ’. “ On average , we were able to migrate 1,000 mailboxes in under three hours ,” he said .
At present , the number of mailboxes running in the Nutanix environment stands at a staggering 53,000 . Despite this incredible , and ever-growing number , the IT team finds the new environment to be significantly faster and more stable than their previous setup . “ With Nutanix , because we have everything working in one box , the data transfer performance is truly impressive . The connection to the Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management shell are also faster than before ,” said Farrayih .
Erasure coding and compression ensure security and segmentation between mailboxes is maintained , while Nutanix Prism allows the IT team to easily monitor and manage the entire environment from a single , centralised dashboard . “ Nutanix is a very powerful solution and can help you build a reliable , scalable and high-performance environment . Management and hosting of critical government services in this environment has become incredibly easy and we now have the ability to create any environment in just a few clicks . This has resulted in an increase in employee productivity , as well as a greater ability for IT to innovate ,” Farrayih added .
The new downtown of Amman Abdali area at night
Commenting on the support the Ministry has received from Nutanix ’ s local team , Farrayih said : “ We started working with Nutanix over three years ago . This has involved putting all our servers on the cloud to centralise everything and now migrating our mission-critical email services to Nutanix infrastructure . Nutanix has played a pivotal role in enabling and supporting our ongoing efforts to accelerate Digital Transformation across Jordan and they are one of our most valuable business partners .” p
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