Nutanix,
a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced that Q9,
Canada’s leading provider of outsourced data center services, has
deployed the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform as the technology
supporting its Private Cloud product offerings, complementing its core
co-location operations. By offering a Nutanix-powered Dedicated Private
Cloud solution, Q9 continues to enhance its existing offerings to
provide application-focused infrastructure solutions for its clients.
Leveraging the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud with the built-in AHV
hypervisor, Q9 can now deliver a secure dedicated private cloud instance
with a single interface to each customer. This can greatly speed up the
customer journey from traditional dedicated environments to data center
virtualization and also provides a full path to the cloud. Q9 can now
deploy an entirely new Nutanix-based Dedicated Private Cloud cluster for
customers within hours, a significant departure from the days or weeks
it used to take to build more complex, dedicated VMware-based
environments.
Q9 clients across many industry verticals such as financial services and
the natural resources sector continue to experience significant
challenges managing the growth of on-premises and co-located
infrastructure installations. They are seeking consumption-based
solutions that provide more control, performance, availability, security
and data residency. By providing a Dedicated Private Cloud offering with
the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, Q9 enables an enterprise cloud
environment that supports the types of controls customers require
matched with a pay-per-use infrastructure elasticity model not typically
found in private cloud services.
Q9 customers can now virtualize traditional enterprise applications and
build their cloud apps on top of Nutanix with AHV and leverage public
cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.
Nutanix enables Q9 to bring in disparate VMs from various hypervisors
and manage them all within its private cloud. This feature provides
flexibility for clients who are currently running VMware vSphere or
Microsoft Hyper-V on-premises to take advantage of Q9’s private cloud
for disaster recovery, creating an opportunity for Q9 as a service
provider.
“Whether it's our Dedicated Private Cloud service or the forthcoming
Virtual Private Cloud offering where customers can purchase individual
VMs rather than a dedicated cluster itself, Nutanix has been able to
support all of our different use cases,” said Tim Harrison, product
architect and technology advocate for Q9. “We are now looking at adding
VDI and hosted applications on top of Nutanix. For Q9, that’s the value
of Nutanix: it allows Q9 to eliminate the need for our customers to
focus on managing infrastructure which, in turn, opens up new
opportunities for them to grow and innovate.”
“Companies like Q9 are challenged to help customers with traditional
bare metal infrastructure move to virtualized environments while also
offering future-looking capabilities like the public cloud,” said Robert
Yelenich, Canada country manager for Nutanix. “With the Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud Platform, these companies can now offer new services to
their customers which provide them with the flexibility and benefits of
a public cloud while retaining the security and control of on-premises
data center infrastructure. Companies can dramatically reduce their time
to revenue, and their customers finally have access to a next-generation
solution they can rely on.”