Case Study: Manchester City Council achieves £285k annual savings and cloud‑like scalability with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

Manchester City Council - Customer Case Study

Manchester City Council faced rising demand for digital services, aging three‑tier infrastructure and tight public‑sector budgets while following the UK Government’s Cloud First policy. To build a scalable, resilient platform to support services across transport, housing, recycling and social care, the Council replaced legacy systems with an on‑premise hyper‑converged solution selected through an open tender: the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud deployed across two colocation sites.

The Nutanix deployment was installed in days and 900+ application workloads were migrated over 3–4 months, delivering cloud‑like scalability, higher performance and built‑in resilience. Rack occupancy fell by 90%, producing annual savings of £285k (power, cooling and space), simplified operations via a single multi‑skilled team, and a foundation for future initiatives (AHV migration, hybrid cloud, IoT and smart‑city projects) with further estimated savings of ~£100k per year.

Manchester City Council

Bob Brown

Chief Information Officer