Nutanix has installed its cloud software into the Royal Opera House (ROH) in London. Go compare.
Following a £50 million makeover and building upgrade at its headquarters in London’s Covent Garden, the ROH wanted to modernise its IT infrastructure. Whilst its relatively modern systems were functional, the lack of flexibility in the stack meant that it was ‘ticking over’, rather than delivering added value to the business.
With a large number of performances and plans to expand its digital streaming offering – the fastest-growing part of the business – it evaluated all available options, the ROH chose the Nutanix Prism Pro multi-cloud management console and Nutanix Calm, along with Rubrik backup and recovery-as-a-Service.
Delivered by Nutanix partner ET Works it was based on an entirely public cloud. In addition to being less expensive from the start, Nutanix provided transparency on upgrade costs for new workloads and future expansion, which provided the ROH with cost certainty.
Nutanix Sales Vice President & General Manager Dom Poloniecki said: “In addition to delivering efficiencies for the ROH, operating a hybrid cloud with Nutanix provides the additional benefit of a fully integrated system so, when it comes to upgrades, downtime is no longer needed; it is simply a case of moving workloads to a different node with no loss of service. An added benefit is that the team also no longer has to monitor capacity and juggle backups or monitor for errors, which frees them up to focus on higher-value projects.”
The ROH is now looking at how it can use technologies such as Chef, Ansible and Docker within its IT infrastructure. The Nutanix and Rubrik platform is an API-first architecture and Nutanix Karbon allows for native deployment of Docker applications.
A key growth area for the ROH is high definition video and sound digital streaming to cinemas. The company’s broadcast and media teams are also exploring Nutanix-enabled on-prem storage options, which will later be archived to the cloud. Mama Mia!
