Case Study: Canterbury Christ Church University consolidates data centres with Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure

Canterbury Christ Church University consolidates 14 racks into 2 half-racks with Nutanix

Canterbury Christ Church University, a UK educational institution, faced a budget shortfall for a necessary IT infrastructure refresh. Their challenge was to replace aging HP servers and storage arrays that ran critical applications like their finance and student record systems, all while staying within strict budget limits and maintaining high availability across two data centers.

The university implemented a solution from Nutanix, choosing the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform on Lenovo ThinkAgile HX servers. This hyperconverged infrastructure consolidated fourteen racks of equipment into just two half-racks, dramatically saving space, reducing power and cooling consumption, and simplifying management. The Nutanix platform provided built-in replication and failover, which increased resilience; a recent power outage occurred with no service interruption for 90% of users. The solution also delivered greater performance and created a scalable platform for future growth and cloud integration.

Canterbury Christ Church University