Birmingham City Council Heads for the Hybrid Cloud With Nutanix

Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced that Birmingham City Council’s Information, Technology and Digital Service (IT&D) will team up with Nutanix to migrate its legacy hardware to a hybrid cloud infrastructure. The new infrastructure will be based on Nutanix’s highly scalable hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software with its integrated AHV hypervisor and central management console, Prism. It will also leverage other cloud products including Nutanix Beam, Calm and Flow.

While they considered pure public cloud solutions, the team ultimately decided to focus on a true hybrid cloud approach utilising both public cloud and an on premise solution based on an HCI-powered software platform that can deliver cloud-like scalability from a secure on-premises datacenter. With Nutanix, they can now implement a complete, end-to-end solution providing a single pane of management to help empower the Council to take full control of its IT infrastructure. This streamlined solution will allow them to develop and refine their digital plans as well as identify replacement technologies and services to continue the transformation process.

“As the largest city in the UK outside the capital, with a population of over 1.1 million, we needed a highly scalable solution, able to support approximately 450 applications, 11,500 council employees, 12,500 devices, and 1.3 petabytes of data,” said Phil Degg, Head of Business Solutions IT&D at Birmingham City Council. “Several vendors met the requirement but Nutanix stood out as providing the best value, with its native AHV hypervisor, and flexibility to choose the right tools while still managing everything centrally.”

Another key factor in selecting Nutanix was the completeness of the solution, including the ability to split the council infrastructure across multiple datacenters, as well as native replication and disaster recovery tools to deliver continuity of service. To support the digital strategy, Birmingham City Council purchased 74 nodes, deployed across two sites, providing a highly secure, resilient and scalable solution.

Additionally, the Council will be using the microsegmentation, application visualization and network automation tools of Nutanix Flow to build and manage its software-defined network. It also plans to leverage application automation and lifecycle management tools in Nutanix Calm to build a service catalogue integrated with ServiceNow, as well as Nutanix Beam to manage the cost and security compliance of workloads across its hybrid cloud estate.