{"id":38907,"date":"2024-08-19T12:41:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=38907"},"modified":"2024-09-04T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T11:22:02","slug":"university-of-canberra-partners-with-nutanix-to-optimise-cloud-computing-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2024\/08\/19\/university-of-canberra-partners-with-nutanix-to-optimise-cloud-computing-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Canberra partners with Nutanix to optimise cloud computing capabilities\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Decade-long partnership slashes infrastructure needs, improves carbon footprint and sets foundation for AI research. Ninety per cent of the University\u2019s core applications run on Nutanix.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Canberra (UC)\u202fslashed its IT infrastructure costs and optimised its cloud computing expenses using the Nutanix Cloud Platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202fFounded in 1967, UC is dedicated to providing immersive student experiences focused on strong employment outcomes. It has a rich history of pioneering research and innovation with practical impact on community and is home to leading research centres and institutes including the Centre for Conservation Ecology and Genomics, Health Research Institute and more. Located in Australia\u2019s capital, UC has more than 15,500 students, academics, researchers and professional staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While UC\u2019s cloud\/network architecture comprises several elements of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, the latest implementation was the NCM Cost Governance solution \u2013 one which Matt Carmichael, CIO, University of Canberra, said had an immediate impact.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a small IT team and the tool gives us a single pane of glass to monitor our usage across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, automatically alerting us to any \u2018gotchas\u2019 where spend might tick up and we don\u2019t know why,\u201d he said. \u201cThat has saved us a couple times. One instance was when our backups in Google Cloud weren\u2019t being aged out appropriately, increasing our bills exponentially. We were able to quickly get it back in line with Nutanix technology.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carmichael said these cost savings were just the tip of the iceberg as previous implementations had drastically reduced the University\u2019s IT expenses and infrastructure needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202f\u201cUsing Nutanix to implement our private cloud was a major reason we were able to replace our disaster recovery (DR) datacentre with a micro datacentre,\u201d he said. \u201cThis meant when we needed a new DR facility, it only required three racks of space instead of the existing 24 \u2013 this led to us being able to repurpose around $2 million of IT budget.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202f\u201cFurther, we\u2019ve been able to consolidate the server and storage assets we need by 78% which led to an additional projected\u202fcost avoidance of more than $1.5 million as we didn\u2019t have to purchase all that new equipment.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202fCarmichael said that as existing infrastructure reached the end of its lifecycle, workloads previously running on three-tier architecture were migrated to Nutanix. Today, more than 90% of the University\u2019s private cloud\u202fapplications run on Nutanix Cloud Platform – including the key student management, finance, human resources, and database systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we saw as we migrated more workloads to Nutanix was massive consolidation in the IT hardware we needed \u2013 we saw shrinking in our datacentre footprint requirements almost immediately,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was also much easier to manage and support, particularly with seamless one-click upgrades. Previously, our traditional infrastructure meant we had all these different hoops you had to jump through.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202fWhile the positive\u202ffinancial and operational impacts\u202fhave enabled UC to invest in enhancing the student learning experience, Carmichael said one of the greatest benefits had stemmed from improving the quality of its teaching in the areas of AI and Deep Learning.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe recently added undergraduate specialist majors in Robotics, AI and Data Science, a Masters in Data Science and Post Graduate specialisations in AI and Machine Learning. To teach these courses effectively requires a significantly increased capacity for GPU-enabled computing resources,\u201d Carmichael said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202f\u201cWith Nutanix End User Computing (EUC), students are able to work on their lab work, assessments, and research from anywhere without requiring excessively expensive terminals \u2013 they can use their normal laptops, log-in to the VDI portal and access all the computing resources they need,\u201d Carmichael said. \u201cImproving the student experience by offering a flexible, remotely accessible teaching environment with enough computing resources for AI and Deep Learning is one of the strategic goals of the Faculty of Science and Technology.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202fCarmichael said postgraduate researchers \u2013 such as those conducting research at the University\u2019s Visual and Decision Analytics Lab (VIDEA) and the Australian Geospatial Health Lab (AGeoH-L) \u2013 were also able to easily access all the computing power they required as Nutanix\u2019s platform enables UC to scale up or down as needed in UC\u2019s research cluster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202fThe University\u2019s first foray into Nutanix technology was in 2013 when it was looking to transform its legacy three-tier infrastructure and reduce the complexity of its IT architecture. Carmichael said he has since worked closely with its technology partner, QIRX, throughout his digital transformation journey.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

QIRX is also an authorised Nutanix reseller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202f\u201cQIRX has been a very stable partner for us,\u201d said Carmichael. \u201cWhen we originally went to Nutanix, they were brave enough right at the beginning because it was such a new technology – they were early adopters in bringing that to the table. We bought our first cluster from them and have procured through them ever since.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron White, General Manager and Vice President, Nutanix APJ, said UC was at the cutting edge of AI and Deep Learning innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u202f\u201cThe next generation of innovators and world-changers are studying right now at University of Canberra,\u201d White said. \u201cWe\u2019re only just beginning to understand the full potential of AI and it\u2019s the hands-on research underway in our nation\u2019s capital that will shape the future of our nation.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decade-long partnership slashes infrastructure needs, improves carbon footprint and sets foundation for AI research. Ninety per cent of the University\u2019s core applications run on Nutanix.\u00a0 The University of Canberra (UC)\u202fslashed its IT infrastructure costs and optimised its cloud computing expenses using the Nutanix Cloud Platform.  \u202fFounded in 1967, UC is dedicated to providing immersive student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":38908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7027,10,12,23,53,54],"tags":[462,126,2070,7048,7047],"class_list":["post-38907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intelligent-technologies-ai","category-analysis-case-studies","category-cloud","category-green","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-used","tag-cloud-computing","tag-nutanix","tag-nutanix-cloud-platform","tag-uc","tag-university-of-canberra"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39347,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38907\/revisions\/39347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}