Nutanix has completed the UK’s Science Museum Group (SMG) has e first phase of its plans to build a hybrid cloud infrastructure, based on its Enterprise Cloud software.
SMG includes the Science Museum in central London, the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, Yorkshire, the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, the National Railway Museum in York and Locomotion in Shildon, County Durham.
The group recently identified digital transformation as key to a group-wide mission to ‘inspire futures’; a strategy focusing on the digital experiences of its audiences – both at the group’s museums and online – as well as building a sustainable and scalable technical infrastructure to deliver on objectives and future endeavours.
The solution was designed and implemented by Eurotech Computer Services, a Nutanix Master Partner. Its Nutanix certified technical teams supported the SMG throughout the project.
In completing the first phase of this programme, the SMG has already achieved several key milestones, not least the virtualisation of all IT workloads, including key apps needed to manage buildings, visitors, volunteers, collections and school visits, all of which are operating successfully. Significantly, this goal was achieved with minimal disruption and without additional licensing costs through the use of the integrated Nutanix AHV hypervisor.
Having now completed the migration to a new consolidated data centre and the building of a second backup and disaster recovery facility, SMG is already using Nutanix to provide local services at remote satellite sites. It is also facilitating the next phase of its transformation plans which, thanks to Nutanix, are already at an advanced stage.
Dom Poloniecki, General Manager of Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa region, Nutanix, said: “The Science Museum Group has secured its future and is set to inspire a growing international audience for a long time to come, thanks to its forward-thinking approach to digital transformation and the adoption of a hybrid approach to cloud computing. This migration of workloads to Nutanix means the Science Museum Group is ideally placed to harness the potential of digital technology, and we look forward to continuing to work with them on future developments.”
