Case Study: Xiaomi achieves 300% storage performance gain and 70% data-center space savings with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Helps Xiaomi Deliver the “Fun” of Technology

Xiaomi, the fast-growing smartphone and smart-device company, faced exponential IT demand as its ecosystem expanded. Its traditional three-tier VMware + SAN architecture became a backend storage bottleneck, degrading performance for key applications (Exchange, MS SQL, SAP), increasing maintenance complexity, and straining data center space and power.

Xiaomi adopted Nutanix Enterprise Cloud’s hyper-converged platform, leveraging distributed metadata and scale-out architecture to remove controller bottlenecks, improve availability, and simplify management. The change delivered roughly a 300% improvement in storage performance (latency), over 200% higher throughput, deployment time cut from two weeks to two hours, 70% less space and >30% lower power use in data centers, and a 50% reduction in IT admin workload.

Xiaomi

Wu Jiaqing

Leader of System Group, Infrastructure Architecture Department