“Now we have round 70 Nutanix clients and are presently saying goodbye to VMware,” reviews Martin Schor, CEO of Swiss firm Axians Amanox AG. There may be an excessive amount of curiosity available on the market in migrating away from VMware, though value alone just isn’t the explanation, he states: “The added worth of the know-how is the important thing and Nutanix has quite a bit to supply right here. We’re additionally a Pink Hat associate, however see it extra as a complement.”
Johannes Hotz, Department Supervisor Danube/Iller at Kramer & Crew, Nutanix’s oldest German associate, has an analogous view: “Clients need an alternative choice to VMware, and Nutanix is the one one which is smart. It’s simpler to put in than the Linux options. There are nonetheless no releases from some software program producers, in any other case there aren’t any technical issues.”
Hotz doesn’t perceive the lengthy migration instances which are generally talked about. “The Transfer instrument works very effectively,” he explains. “For instance, we migrated 150 VMs in a single weekend, in any other case it typically takes a number of weeks.”
Michael Hillewaert, CEO of the Metsi Group from Belgium, believes that a very powerful problem is for the shopper to adapt to Nutanix’s totally different mentality. The migration itself is straightforward, however altering habits is harder. On the similar time, he factors out that the acceptance of Nutanix is underestimated: “The motivation to change is initially monetary. However when clients see the instrument, they acknowledge the worth.”
Good scores for NCP
IDC additionally provides Nutanix excessive marks. In a examine, IDC investigated the advantages of utilizing the NCP for firms. The end result: NCP offers clients with improved scalability, reliability, and efficiency, whereas on the similar time firms obtain value financial savings by means of higher useful resource utilization and larger personnel effectivity.
The businesses had been in a position to scale back their working prices by a median of 41%, whereas the return on funding (ROI) over three years amounted to 391%. In response to IDC, the investments within the know-how paid off after simply seven months.