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EG Group Drives Miles Further With Nutanix in the Tank
Nutanix Cloud Platform Reinforces Fast-Paced Business Model Powering Expanding Global Garage Operator SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nutanix (NASDAQ:
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nNutanix Cloud Platform Reinforces Fast-Paced Business Model Powering Expanding Global Garage Operator\n\n SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX) a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, announced today that, following the deployment of Nutanix Cloud Platform across its global network, leading convenience retailer EG Group is already reaping the benefits of that investment and is empowered to implement ambitious plans for further rapid growth.\n\nStarting with a single location in 2001, EG Group has become one of the UK’s fastest growing forecourt operators with an expanding portfolio of approximately 6,200 sites across mainland Europe, Australia, the U.S. and the UK. One byproduct of this rapid growth, however, tends to be a mixed inheritance of legacy IT unfit for purpose in the context of a large, fast-paced business like EG Group.\n\n“Keeping on top of a business which is growing at a phenomenal rate calls for agile, scalable, secure and always available IT, and that wasn’t what we had,” said Graham Billsborough, Group CIO at EG Group. “Over time we’d acquired a collection of some twenty or so data centers running a mix of applications, largely under invested and end of life and far below what’s needed to support a large global business.”\n\nTasked with unifying and transforming the IT infrastructure across the Group, Billsborough had a clear plan for simplicity, resilience and, above all, innovative and flexible technology. All of which led to Nutanix, with the company opting to build a network of data centers spread across the UK, North America and Australia, each equipped with Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software and the Nutanix AHV hypervisor. The new network would also be configured to replicate data for rapid failover and disaster recovery, with Nutanix Prism to deliver simple management of all physical and virtual IT resources from a single interface.\n\nIn order to minimize disruption, the Nutanix migration was staged over several months, but the benefits were almost instant. A very welcome 50% uplift in legacy application performance was immediately noticed.\n\nComplexity has been significantly reduced and reliability of the Group’s IT transformed, with no outages since migrating to the Nutanix infrastructure. Resilience, too, has been proven, as the built-in data replication to...