Nutanix has revealed UK emergency healthcare charity, The Air Ambulance Service, as one of three non-profit organisations to benefit from its Web-Scale Wish Datacenter Makeover Project.
Selected from hundreds of applicants worldwide, a panel of international judges judged The Air Ambulance Service as deserving of a valuable runner-up award, comprising a fully licensed Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure appliance installed by Nutanix technicians at the charity’s data centre with technical support for 3 years also included.
“It couldn’t have happened at a better time,” exclaims Michelle Coombs, IT Consultant for the Air Ambulance Service. “Our existing servers and storage were well past their sell-by date and we were struggling to cope with demand from a growing user base spread across four sites, including the two airports we fly from, plus 30 charity shops.”
In an effort to cope with demand for IT, the charity had embarked upon a migration to a virtualised environment, but was struggling to find the budget in an organisation funded entirely by public donation. Comprising three compute nodes plus distributed SSD-enhanced storage, the hyper-converged Nutanix platform is more than capable of handling both existing workloads and growth over the next few years, and the migration process is well under way.
“We’re delighted to be able to recognise the valuable work of The Air Ambulance Service in this way,” comments Paul Phillips, Regional Director at Nutanix. “The entrants were all deserving, but the judges clearly felt The Air Ambulance Service would get real benefit from the Nutanix hyper-converged platform and be able to put it to immediate use supporting the essential emergency medical services they provide across the UK. We also wish the other finalists well and are pleased to have helped make all their Web-Scale wishes come true.”
