Case Study: Sheppard Mullin achieves near 100% uptime and improved attorney productivity with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

Sheppard Mullin Selects the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

Sheppard Mullin, a Global 100 law firm with 750+ attorneys, needed to modernize its IT to support a mission‑critical on‑premises document management system where performance and uptime directly affect client service. Facing performance issues and seeking a simpler, more reliable infrastructure, the firm evaluated hyperconverged solutions and ran a Nutanix POC to address uptime and scalability requirements.

Sheppard Mullin deployed Nutanix Enterprise Cloud (NX‑3000 and NX‑8000 series in the primary datacenter, an additional 3000 series in a secondary site, and an NX‑1365 three‑node cluster running AHV and AFS with encrypted disks for HIPAA). The rollout delivered near‑100% uptime, greatly increased IOPS capacity (up to 100,000), simpler management via AHV and Prism, fast self‑service file restores with AFS, and streamlined DR — boosting attorney productivity and client satisfaction.

Sheppard Mullin

Lawrence Lozzano

Senior DBA