Case Study: Essar Group achieves 93% lower IT costs and 94% higher end-user productivity with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

Essar - Customer Case Study

Essar Group, an Indian multinational with more than $39B in revenues and a server estate of 800+ (nearly 70% virtualized), faced operational and performance challenges from an aging, isolated 3‑tier DMZ environment of about 30 physical servers that supported critical internet‑facing apps (web, mobility, e‑banking, e‑bidding, retail). The IT team needed to consolidate infrastructure, improve application performance and availability, simplify management, and dramatically reduce rackspace, power and cooling costs to make IT a true business enabler.

Working with Creative Infotech, Essar deployed Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS with the AHV hypervisor (initial 3‑node Acropolis cluster) and now manages the environment with Nutanix Prism. They’ve migrated 27 physical servers (systems deployed in under 60 minutes), eliminated major performance bottlenecks with Auto Tiering, and cut ongoing management costs by 93%, boosted end‑user productivity by 94%, and reduced rackspace/power/cooling by roughly 93% by converging infrastructure from 32U to 2U.

Essar Group

Gaurang Doshi

Head of IT Infrastructure Systems and EUS