Major Smart Device Maker Breaks Storage Bottleneck to Deliver
Business Value with 3x Latency Reduction
BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Nutanix
(NASDAQ:NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced
that Xiaomi, the world's 5th largest smartphone maker, has addressed
long-standing storage performance issues by replacing its legacy
three-tier IT infrastructure with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform.
Despite early adoption of virtualisation, the legacy three-tier
infrastructure hosting Xiaomi’s business critical applications including
Microsoft Exchange, MS SQL Server and SAP Business Suite, was struggling
to cope with exponential growth in demand. The traditional SAN storage
was quickly identified as the main bottleneck, even after upgrading to
all-flash arrays. By switching to the highly scalable and robust Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud Platform with distributed storage architecture, Xiaomi
managed to remove the long-standing issues. As a result, the smartphone
maker has dramatically improved the performance of business-critical
workloads while delivering return on investment (ROI) and savings
through Nutanix Prism, a single management pane for both compute and
storage resources.
The decision by Xiaomi to replace its entire three-tier infrastructure
with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform was taken after a thorough
competitive analysis and a two-month testing. According to Wu Jiaqing,
Head of the Xiaomi System Group, Infrastructure Architecture Department,
“The benefits were both immediate and substantial.”
“Following the installation of the new Nutanix platform we have seen an
immediate 200% leap in data throughput,” Wu Jiaqing reported. “In
addition, we’ve seen an equally impressive three-fold reduction in
latency with huge knock-on effects when it comes to deploying new
applications – now being measured in hours instead of weeks.”
Xiaomi has also significantly reduced the physical occupancy and power
consumption of its data centres, with a 70% reduction in rack occupancy
and 30% saving in cooling and power requirements. Additionally, the
Nutanix solution, with its simplicity and convenience of management, has
halved the workload of IT support staff, allowing them to devote more
time and energy to business innovation.
“For companies considering a virtualisation platform or building an
on-premise cloud, Nutanix is the best choice for both technology and
application,” said Wu Jiaqing. “The outstanding performance, easy
management and quick deployment of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
has enabled us to finally address our storage issues and make some very
impressive savings. More importantly, it has allowed the business to
focus on what it does best – innovating for the benefits of our
customers.”
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