Improving Enterprise Application Performance with Nutanix and Intel
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Jonathan Fellows
As companies’ demands grow for IT infrastructure that can support their needs, upgrading both hardware and software are part of operational best practices.
A recent Futurum Group CIO survey found that nearly 50% of respondents see Modernization as a key factor driving IT purchases in 2025. This indicates companies are ready to spend to make sure they are keeping up with the requirements that modern applications need.
Some of the challenges faced by companies include how to maintain existing applications and modernizing their infrastructure while also supporting new applications like container-native applications. By modernizing to a Hyper-Converged platform, companies can solve this problem with both new compute and storage elements. A major benefit of modernizing to a Hyper-Converged platform is that both the compute and storage elements are refreshed with the latest Intel processors together at the server refresh cycle rate. This is typically much faster (2 -3 years) than an external storage refresh cycle (3-5 years).
Nutanix and Intel asked Signal65 to conduct testing to determine the potential performance gains from a cluster software-only upgrade, compared to a hardware and software upgrade with a newer generation of Nutanix and Intel-based systems. Our extensive testing of systems over the past several years has shown that companies using older hardware can often experience significant gains by upgrading their infrastructure, including performance gains and the opportunity for cost savings due to higher efficiency.
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