Flight Centre NZ Soars with Nutanix
Announcement posted by Watterson 20 Oct 2016
New Zealand’s Largest Travel Group Implements Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to Shrink Data Centre Footprint by 80%
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – October 20, 2016 – Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), the next-generation enterprise cloud platform company, today announced that Flight Centre New Zealand has implemented the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to help its travel experts service the growing number of New Zealand residents travelling abroad.
According to Statistics New Zealand, international travel by New Zealand residents has increased by more than 83,000 trips between March and August 2016 when compared with the same period in 2015.[1]
The Nutanix solution provides enhanced reliability with no single point-of-failure to cost-effectively address the problem of an outdated legacy infrastructure. With higher availability and performance, travel experts can better identify opportunities for customers, who in turn have faster and more reliable access to Flight Centre services.
Flight Centre has more than 200 locations in New Zealand running 900 Citrix-operated virtual desktops. These deliver a range of applications including Flight Centre’s global booking tool used by all travel experts, a corporate retail booking app used by specialists and customers, and travel destination informational apps. These systems are powered by Flight Centre’s two datacentres in Auckland and Hamilton.
Faced with infrastructure that was becoming outdated and a growing desire from customers for new technology, the travel group chose the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to enhance its IT environment and allow its travel experts to better serve its increasing customer base.
The two Nutanix clusters—one at each of the datacentres in Auckland and Hamilton – have not only improved performance, but have also shrunk Flight Centre NZ’s datacentre footprint by 80 per cent. The scale-as-you-go model inherent with Nutanix means that Flight Centre can simply add additional compute and storage resources as needed.
“Our old system had limitations in terms of data availability and in turn our ability to service our customers in the way we wanted,” said Angus Armstrong, Chief Information Officer, Flight Centre NZ. “With the Nutanix platform, our data is safe and secure and our team can focus on securing the best deals for our customers, giving us a competitive advantage in attracting the growing number of customers travelling from New Zealand and within the country.”
“The New Zealand travel industry is a competitive market and is constantly challenged by new players and technologies,” said Howard Fyffe, Managing Director Australia and New Zealand, Nutanix. “Flight Centre NZ has maintained its strong position by investing in the right technologies to allow its team to be more productive and focus on what matters – providing great travel experiences to customers.”
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About Nutanix
Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications. Learn more atwww.nutanix.com or follow us on Twitter @nutanix.
© 2016 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. Nutanix is a trademark of Nutanix, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. All other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s). This release contains links to external websites that are not part of Nutanix.com. Nutanix does not control these sites, and disclaims all responsibility for the content or accuracy of any external site. Our decision to link to an external site should not be considered an endorsement of any content on such site.
According to Statistics New Zealand, international travel by New Zealand residents has increased by more than 83,000 trips between March and August 2016 when compared with the same period in 2015.[1]
The Nutanix solution provides enhanced reliability with no single point-of-failure to cost-effectively address the problem of an outdated legacy infrastructure. With higher availability and performance, travel experts can better identify opportunities for customers, who in turn have faster and more reliable access to Flight Centre services.
Flight Centre has more than 200 locations in New Zealand running 900 Citrix-operated virtual desktops. These deliver a range of applications including Flight Centre’s global booking tool used by all travel experts, a corporate retail booking app used by specialists and customers, and travel destination informational apps. These systems are powered by Flight Centre’s two datacentres in Auckland and Hamilton.
Faced with infrastructure that was becoming outdated and a growing desire from customers for new technology, the travel group chose the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to enhance its IT environment and allow its travel experts to better serve its increasing customer base.
The two Nutanix clusters—one at each of the datacentres in Auckland and Hamilton – have not only improved performance, but have also shrunk Flight Centre NZ’s datacentre footprint by 80 per cent. The scale-as-you-go model inherent with Nutanix means that Flight Centre can simply add additional compute and storage resources as needed.
“Our old system had limitations in terms of data availability and in turn our ability to service our customers in the way we wanted,” said Angus Armstrong, Chief Information Officer, Flight Centre NZ. “With the Nutanix platform, our data is safe and secure and our team can focus on securing the best deals for our customers, giving us a competitive advantage in attracting the growing number of customers travelling from New Zealand and within the country.”
“The New Zealand travel industry is a competitive market and is constantly challenged by new players and technologies,” said Howard Fyffe, Managing Director Australia and New Zealand, Nutanix. “Flight Centre NZ has maintained its strong position by investing in the right technologies to allow its team to be more productive and focus on what matters – providing great travel experiences to customers.”
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About Nutanix
Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications. Learn more atwww.nutanix.com or follow us on Twitter @nutanix.
© 2016 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. Nutanix is a trademark of Nutanix, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. All other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s). This release contains links to external websites that are not part of Nutanix.com. Nutanix does not control these sites, and disclaims all responsibility for the content or accuracy of any external site. Our decision to link to an external site should not be considered an endorsement of any content on such site.