Case Study: Mary Kay China achieves 30% lower CapEx and 50% reduced management overhead with Nutanix

Mary Kay China Builds the Foundation for a Beautiful Future

Mary Kay China, with thousands of beauty consultants and 138 IT staff supporting more than 1,000 VMs across two datacenters, needed a cost-effective, high‑performance platform to roll out 1,500 virtual desktops. Traditional three‑tier infrastructure was too expensive and complex, so the team sought a solution that offered strong VDI performance, simple unified management, and fast scalability.

After a successful POC, Mary Kay deployed Nutanix NX‑3000 hyperconverged nodes compatible with VMware and Citrix, cutting hardware costs by about 30% and reducing management overhead by roughly 50% (consolidating two administrators into one). Deployment was faster (days vs. weeks), 300 VDI seats are already live with required performance, and the company plans to expand Nutanix to disaster recovery and server virtualization.

Mary Kay

Steven Dai

Datacenter Infrastructure Manager