Case Study: Airbus Defence and Space achieves 50% faster systems integration and scalable, secure mission‑critical infrastructure with Nutanix

Airbus D&S chooses Nutanix for its mission critical environments

Airbus Defence and Space’s Ground Systems IT Platforms Center of Competence designs mission-critical systems to process satellite and edge data for institutional and commercial customers. Faced with long integration times, the need to scale to thousands of vCPUs and multiple petabytes, and strict security and operability requirements for 10–15 year lifecycles, the team sought a more flexible, durable infrastructure that reduces complexity and manages obsolescence.

They adopted a software-defined, hyperconverged Nutanix Cloud Platform (AOS, Prism, AHV, Flow), which streamlined hardware and operations and simplified scaling and security. The move cut deployment and integration time by about 50%—what once took weeks now takes days (for example, 40 physical nodes scaled in 2 days)—while delivering end-to-end embedded security, faster problem resolution, and the ability to grow to thousands of vCPUs and petabytes of capacity.

Airbus Defence and Space

Olivier Lagarde

Senior Technical Officer