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Vocus Turns to Nutanix for Infrastructure Modernisation
[March 13, 2017]

Vocus Turns to Nutanix for Infrastructure Modernisation


Nutanix (NASDAQ:NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced that Vocus Communications (News - Alert) ("Vocus") (ASX:VOC) is modernising its technology infrastructure with the Dell EMC XC Series appliance running the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, which comes with a built-in virtualisation solution.

Vocus, a leading Australian telecommunications company, decided to make a clean break from its three-tier architecture and adopt Nutanix to run its wide range of business support systems (BSS), including large-scale billing and provisioning systems. Benefits include power savings, a reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) across IT spend, increased automation and business intelligence.

"Previously we worked with a range of vendors," said Mick Simmons, interim Head of Corporate & Wholesale Division at Vocus. "We had one vendor per function from storage, compute to networks, we have now collapsed the storage and compute using Nutanix on the Dell (News - Alert) EMC XC platform. The converged solution is reliable, simple and has increased automation, which materially improves our operational efficiency. The incremental node-by-node, pay-as-you-grow CAPEX model also suits us from a budgeting perspective."

The telecoms giant selected the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform from among a variety of hyperconverged solutions due to its maturity and leadership in the market, simplicity, and the proven open-source KVM technology based hypervisor, Nutanix AHV. The latter was a vital part of the decision, as it brings low-touch virtualisation management and associated cost savings.

Traditionally, Vocus refreshed its IT infrastructure every four to five years and had been using a storage area network (SAN) model until the Nutanix-enabled solution. Its most recent infrastructure was approaching end-of-life, meaning increased maintenance and support costs.

The company's IT team also had to develop all orchestration in-house as there ws no solution out there that was mature enough to handle this task. Vocus expects Nutanix, in time, to be able to take over the entire automation functionality as it continuously strengthens those capabilities.



Vocus initially implemented Nutanix software on the Dell EMC (News - Alert) XC Series, and has twice since expanded its environment as it continues to migrate its virtualised applications to run more of its BSS workloads through Nutanix.

In addition to cost savings, the horizontal overview that comes with Prism Pro has seen Nutanix assist with the breaking down of silos across its infrastructure teams. This visibility, combined with Nutanix's data mining and analytics capabilities, is helping the business continue to expand and achieve its business goals.


Nutanix running on Dell EMC XC Series has also helped with resource allocation within the company - if one department needs extra IT capacity for a specific project, where there is spare capacity, it can simply borrow a node from another cluster. This flexibility was never available prior to Nutanix.

"Our Enterprise Cloud Platform comes with a proven hypervisor, AHV, at no extra cost with every deployment," said Howard Fyffe, Managing Director Australia and New Zealand at Nutanix. "AHV is a rapidly growing hypervisor for our deployments, and quickly becoming a popular choice for virtualising business critical applications because industry leaders such as Vocus recognise the simplicity, benefits and cost savings of having one single platform to run the datacentre and virtualisation requirements."

About Nutanix

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualisation and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on Twitter (News - Alert) @nutanix.

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This press release includes forward-looking statements concerning our relationship with Vocus Communications and the development and incorporation of new orchestration features into our products. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts, and instead are based on our current expectations, estimates, opinions and beliefs. The accuracy of such forward-looking statements depends upon future events, and involves risks, uncertainties and other factors beyond our control that may cause these statements to be inaccurate and cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied by such statements, including, among others: the introduction, or acceleration of adoption of, competing solutions, including public cloud infrastructure; a shift in industry or competitive dynamics or customer demand; and other risks detailed in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2017, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and, except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect actual results or subsequent events or circumstances.


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