Nutanix has announced that Hamburger Pensionsverwaltung (HAPEV) has deployed Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) to, in just a few weeks, successfully complete the rollout of a new cloud-native customer platform on AWS. In doing so, the organization, one of the largest service and consulting companies for occupational pension plans in Germany, is demonstrating its innovative strength and sustainably advancing its plans for a hybrid multicloud IT infrastructure on its own terms.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters gave the company the advantage of meeting a wide range of requirements with a single solution. HAPEV developed a new business-critical customer platform and used cloud-native container technology hosted by AWS for this purpose. Some time ago, the Hamburg-based company migrated its on-premises data center to a more agile, scalable and easily managed hyper-converged infrastructure using Nutanix Cloud Platform and the AHV hypervisor.

In order to ensure the timely implementation of the new customer platform, HAPEV planned to first move essential support services from its on-premise datacentre to the same AWS environment. As a result, changes and updates to the code would have been necessary, as well as the development of expertise in the areas of management, support and development. With their experience as a specialist in hybrid multicloud computing, Nutanix convinced the team at HAPEV to look at a different solution. By choosing Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), they were able to effortlessly move on-premises virtual workloads to the public cloud unchanged on an NC2 cluster with AHV as the hypervisor. Instead of investing months, the completion was now in weeks and it was possible to manage the project using the same Prism console as for their own on-premises platform.

"We considered the solution a real game changer and we were not disappointed," said Keven Hamann, IT Solution Architect, HAPEV. “Following an intense proof of concept trial, it took a few weeks to move all the workloads across with no need to re-architect or make any significant changes. In terms of performance, too, Nutanix Cloud Clusters met our expectations. Combined with Nutanix's support, this made the whole project remarkably easy and stress free.” The team working with Hamann treats NC2 on AWS just like any other Nutanix cluster. This allows for the management to remain within the small IT team and the same Prism interface as the on-premises environment.

Although the central motivator behind the decision, seamless migration of existing workloads wasn’t the only reason for buying into Nutanix Cloud Clusters. HAPEV also took the opportunity to add much-needed resiliency and disaster recovery capabilities to their remaining on-premise infrastructure, again at minimal cost and no need for re-skilling. "Our backup and DR capabilities are now at a new level, providing maximum protection for all of our mission-critical applications," Hamann added.

Downtime is no longer a concern as using the tools and technologies included in the Nutanix software stack, HAPEV has been able to implement a much more robust data protection strategy. A strategy that includes replicating workloads across both its on-premise datacentre and AWS and automating failover and failback processes for complete peace of mind, again, all managed from the same integrated Nutanix Prism console.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is available for use with AWS globally and with Azure in North America and several European countries – with more Azure regions to follow. 

A release on Azure would also provide HAPEV with additional opportunities to further spread risk and make platform choices based on the workload – still deployed and managed from the same Nutanix console.

That’s an approach echoed and applauded by Peter Goldbrunner, Vice President & General Manager Central Europe at Nutanix.

“On behalf of customers like HAPEV, we have always worked to make IT so simple that it's invisible,” Peter commented. “Moreover, as the industry has evolved, our focus has inevitably expanded beyond the datacentre to help those customers manage the complexity of multiple clouds, whether private or public. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is the latest realisation of that vision, enabling complete flexibility for businesses to write code once and use it anywhere as well as taking full advantage of scale, integration, and pricing of multiple options no matter where located. It’s the true vision of the hybrid multicloud approach.”

Nutanix has announced that Hamburger Pensionsverwaltung (HAPEV) has deployed Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) to, in just a few weeks, successfully complete the rollout of a new cloud-native customer platform on AWS. In doing so, the organization, one of the largest service and consulting companies for occupational pension plans in Germany, is demonstrating its innovative strength and sustainably advancing its plans for a hybrid multicloud IT infrastructure on its own terms.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters gave the company the advantage of meeting a wide range of requirements with a single solution. HAPEV developed a new business-critical customer platform and used cloud-native container technology hosted by AWS for this purpose. Some time ago, the Hamburg-based company migrated its on-premises data center to a more agile, scalable and easily managed hyper-converged infrastructure using Nutanix Cloud Platform and the AHV hypervisor.

In order to ensure the timely implementation of the new customer platform, HAPEV planned to first move essential support services from its on-premise datacentre to the same AWS environment. As a result, changes and updates to the code would have been necessary, as well as the development of expertise in the areas of management, support and development. With their experience as a specialist in hybrid multicloud computing, Nutanix convinced the team at HAPEV to look at a different solution. By choosing Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), they were able to effortlessly move on-premises virtual workloads to the public cloud unchanged on an NC2 cluster with AHV as the hypervisor. Instead of investing months, the completion was now in weeks and it was possible to manage the project using the same Prism console as for their own on-premises platform.

"We considered the solution a real game changer and we were not disappointed," said Keven Hamann, IT Solution Architect, HAPEV. “Following an intense proof of concept trial, it took a few weeks to move all the workloads across with no need to re-architect or make any significant changes. In terms of performance, too, Nutanix Cloud Clusters met our expectations. Combined with Nutanix's support, this made the whole project remarkably easy and stress free.” The team working with Hamann treats NC2 on AWS just like any other Nutanix cluster. This allows for the management to remain within the small IT team and the same Prism interface as the on-premises environment.

Although the central motivator behind the decision, seamless migration of existing workloads wasn’t the only reason for buying into Nutanix Cloud Clusters. HAPEV also took the opportunity to add much needed resiliency and disaster recovery capabilities to their remaining on-premise infrastructure, again at minimal cost and no need for re-skilling. "Our backup and DR capabilities are now at a new level, providing maximum protection for all of our mission-critical applications," Hamann added.

Downtime is no longer a concern as using the tools and technologies included in the Nutanix software stack, HAPEV has been able to implement a much more robust data protection strategy. A strategy that includes replicating workloads across both its on-premise datacentre and AWS and automating failover and failback processes for complete peace of mind, again, all managed from the same integrated Nutanix Prism console.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is available for use with AWS globally and with Azure in North America and several European countries – with more Azure regions to follow. 

A release on Azure would also provide HAPEV with additional opportunities to further spread risk and make platform choices based on the workload – still deployed and managed from the same Nutanix console.

That’s an approach echoed and applauded by Peter Goldbrunner, Vice President & General Manager Central Europe at Nutanix.

“On behalf of customers like HAPEV, we have always worked to make IT so simple that it's invisible,” Peter commented. “Moreover, as the industry has evolved, our focus has inevitably expanded beyond the datacentre to help those customers manage the complexity of multiple clouds, whether private or public. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is the latest realisation of that vision, enabling complete flexibility for businesses to write code once and use it anywhere as well as taking full advantage of scale, integration, and pricing of multiple options no matter where located. It’s the true vision of the hybrid multicloud approach.”