Case Study: NTT SmartConnect achieves cost-effective, high-performance cloud services and 25% CapEx reduction with Nutanix

NTT SmartConnect Builds Cost-Effective Cloud Services Using Web-Scale Converged Infrastructure

NTT SmartConnect, an Osaka-based datacenter and internet platform provider established in 2000, needed to expand its cloud offerings but was held back by a legacy 3‑tier SAN and server architecture. The aging environment produced severe storage performance bottlenecks, was hard to scale, and consumed excessive datacenter rack space, undermining the company’s goal of delivering efficient, cost‑effective cloud services on demand.

NTT SmartConnect deployed Nutanix NX‑3000 web‑scale converged infrastructure to replace the legacy stack, gaining better performance, simpler management, and multi‑hypervisor flexibility. The move eliminated storage bottlenecks, cut CapEx by 25%, reduced rack space by 2.5x, and enabled faster, easily scalable cloud deployments with plans to extend services using VMware vRealize and OpenStack.

NTT SmartConnect

Yoshitaka Inoue

Senior Manager