Reinvigorated Desktop-as-a-Service computing is just the start as healthcare provider adopts Nutanix Calm to deliver on multi-cloud plans
Nutanix announced that BUPA is harnessing Nutanix solutions to address performance, scalability and management issues impacting its business-critical Citrix environment that supports over 5,000 users. These issues were quickly resolved by migrating from legacy infrastructure to the Nutanix Cloud platform and Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV). Beyond this initial phase, BUPA has also begun using Nutanix Calm to fully automate the management of its DaaS computing system and allow for rapid deployment of this and other workloads to any cloud in accord with the long term multi-cloud strategy.
With DaaS computing seen as a business-critical application by leading health insurance and healthcare provider BUPA, the company had invested heavily in a state-of-the-art Citrix solution tailored to meet its exacting requirements. The BUPA tech team didn’t take long to figure out that switching to Nutanix Cloud Platform would be the best way forward for its Citrix DaaS solution. The configuration chosen called for Nutanix clusters for each of the two sites, to support the 3,000 existing DaaS computing users whilst allowing for future growth. These were quickly delivered and then deployed across two locations to meet rapid failover and disaster recovery requirements.
Users saw a marked improvement in desktop performance straight away, and behind the scenes, Nutanix and Citrix worked to optimise the environment. The whole system was a lot simpler and easier to manage with on-demand scaling available at the press of a button and full end-to-end visibility from a single console. Support too has been streamlined with just one point of contact for all hardware or software-related issues, including the hypervisor. All can now be managed from the same console, eliminating the need for expert skills, and freeing staff to concentrate on other tasks, including plans to use Nutanix Calm to automate all aspects of the application lifecycle.
“By migrating our DaaS computing environment from a legacy 3-tier platform to Nutanix, we’ve gained a lot more than just a more scalable, performant and agile infrastructure. We’ve kept operational costs down by using the AHV hypervisor and further lowered support overheads with Nutanix Calm which is enabling us to both automate day-to-day management tasks and move forward with confidence to a multi-cloud future,” said Rick Jagger, Technical Services Manager, BUPA.
Like most large enterprises, BUPA expects the Cloud to play an increasing role in its IT strategy. It is already looking at using Calm to enable it to redeploy rather than upgrade applications in place. BUPA is also impressed by Calm’s ability to deploy DaaS computing and other applications onto any cloud quickly and, where possible, balance workloads across what could, eventually, become a global multi-cloud network supporting other parts of the BUPA business.
