{"id":2303,"date":"2020-10-26T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2020-10-28T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T11:59:17","slug":"nutanix-helps-royal-automobile-club-of-queensland-set-foundation-for-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2020\/10\/26\/nutanix-helps-royal-automobile-club-of-queensland-set-foundation-for-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutanix helps Royal Automobile Club of Queensland set foundation for future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Royal Automobile Club of Queensland, Queensland\u2019s leading auto club, car insurer and mutual bank improves service delivery five-fold, reduces footprint and sets foundation for AI and robot-driven future with Nutanix.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud OS, announced it has helped the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) save about half a million dollars and support the organization’s drive to always provide \u2018more for members\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its formation in 1905, RACQ has constantly evolved to meet the needs of its members. It began as a motoring advocacy group and auto club, entered into the insurance industry in the 1970s, and in 2017 disrupted Queensland and Australia\u2019s financial services industry after merging with QT Mutual Bank to launch RACQ Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, 115 years after its founding, RACQ offers its members a broad range of services including banking and financial planning, car and pet insurance, as well as roadside and home assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Johnston, General Manager Security and Shared ICT Services at RACQ, said that across its service portfolio, RACQ\u2019s mission was to always provide ultimate benefit to its members. Despite this ethos, ageing IT infrastructure meant his team had been tied-up in keeping the lights on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of my teams would spend far too much of their time dealing with hardware updates and firmware fixes \u2013 now it\u2019s just not an issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve achieved an almost three-fold reduction in our hardware count with Nutanix. We\u2019ve gone from four storage arrays to none, from two data centers full of racks to around four racks per site, and the people hours we\u2019ve saved in maintaining the environment have been significant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston said he implemented Nutanix alongside trusted IT partner MOQdigital while completing a data-center migration to a co-location facility. While the primary aim was to decrease the amount of hardware RACQ required, he chose Nutanix as it would not only significantly reduce the data center footprint \u2013 it would do so while improving performance and providing a platform for the company\u2019s focus on emerging technologies, including AI and robot processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe absolutely needed to ensure we had no impact on performance, as we\u2019re running core workloads including insurance and financial systems, as well as membership databases and our CRM,\u201d he said. \u201cI now have a team who no longer have to run hardware as their primary day job; instead, they\u2019re now providing more value by developing our capabilities in the automation, orchestration, security and optimization spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston said these efficiency improvements were forecast to save RACQ A$500,000 over the next five years while also accelerating its ability to develop new services five-fold.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPreviously, whenever the developers came to my team and needed to provision new infrastructure, we\u2019d target a turnaround of five days \u2013 we\u2019re aiming to drop that to just a day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This reduction is due to a burgeoning cloud management mentality among Johnston\u2019s IT team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot only have we greatly reduced infrastructure overheads, we\u2019ve also gained private cloud capabilities so we can apply the same management models we use for public cloud infrastructure to on-premise,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re currently developing a common API so we can provision wherever we need to, whether that\u2019s on Nutanix, AWS, Azure or Google \u2013 that simply wasn\u2019t possible for us before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nutanix recently announced the availability of its technology on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure \u2013 two of the leading players in Australia\u2019s near-A$1 billion infrastructure- As-a-Service (IaaS) market \u2013 which will help companies like RACQ succeed through hybrid cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee Thompson, Managing Director at Nutanix A\/NZ, said RACQ\u2019s ability to reinvent itself and disrupt its own business models made it clear it was one of Australia\u2019s most innovative organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRACQ is a leader in business transformation in its truest sense,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cBy entering the financial services market, it has shown it is able to fend off competitors and is willing to take the fight to deliver better competition and service for its members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith its IT team liberated from the drudge work of hardware maintenance and freed up to explore the possibilities AI, Machine Learning, robotics and automation can have on its business, RACQ has set a strong foundation for its future \u2013 and the next industry it looks to disrupt.\u201d   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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