Case Study: Nasdaq achieves faster provisioning, 2x query performance and 25% lower TCO with Nutanix

Nasdaq Selects Nutanix AHV with Built-in Virtualization for Rapidly Growing Splunk Environment

Nasdaq’s IT team was facing scalability, performance, and agility challenges as its Splunk-based central logging environment rapidly grew. The company relied on a complex, multi-tier SAN and a mix of hypervisors, which made storage provisioning slow (often weeks), hindered performance, and limited the ability to scale for security and operations use cases.

Nasdaq ran a PoC and deployed the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform (NX-8000/Dell XC) with Nutanix AHV and Prism to virtualize Splunk. The move cut provisioning from weeks to hours, doubled query and index performance (with 2–3x search responsiveness), reduced server footprint by 40%, and delivered about 25% lower TCO—while improving security visibility and overall management simplicity.

Nasdaq

Jake Yang

Senior Director of Global Systems and Storage