Case Study: Riverside achieves SAN-free server and storage consolidation with Nutanix Complete Cluster

For Riverside’s Server and Storage Consolidation, Nutanix Fits Like a Glove

The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm managing investments under $200M, needed to consolidate aging server and storage infrastructure from five U.S. sites into a single virtualized datacenter in New York. The distributed, siloed environment lacked high availability and was costly to operate and maintain, and the IT team faced tight budget, space and power constraints while wanting a VMware-based centralized platform.

Riverside deployed a Nutanix Complete Cluster as a SAN‑free, converged compute-and-storage solution—preloaded with VMware, space- and energy-efficient, and easy for a small IT staff to manage. The rollout delivered improved database performance (notably for SAP Business One), more responsive support during deployment, simplified operations, and a clear path to add a second cluster for warm disaster recovery.

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Robert Sciaraffo

Senior Systems Engineer, The Riverside Company