Financial trading tools providerLondon Capital Group (LCG) has ditched its traditional server-plus-SAN IT systems and replaced them with hyper-converged infrastructurefrom #Nutanix.
LCG operates from its Knightsbridge HQ with 130 employees, and has sites in Israel and Poland. It runs core internal applications plus financial trading platforms that customers access via the internet.
About 18 months ago, its IT infrastructure – comprising #HP blade servers plus #Dell #EqualLogic and HP #Proliant shared storage – had reached end of life and maintenance periods, said CIO Blair Wright.
Also, the infrastructure had grown organically and was over-complex, while the storage was nearing capacity, he said. “Things were just bolted on and not a lot of thought had gone into how the system had scaled.”
Initially, Wright and his team looked at replicating the traditional server/storage infrastructure, but eventually opted for hyper-converged infrastructure.
Hyper-converged products combine compute and storage in one box with virtualisation capability. They have emerged in recent years as competition to discrete server and storage products. Key suppliers include Nutanix, Scale Computing, #Simplivity and #VMware’s #EVO:Rail.
“We were under a very tight deadline to get the technical underpinning of the business on a solid foundation as soon as possible,” said Wright.
“If we had gone down the route of #Cisco #UCS servers and networking with external storage, we were looking at a lead time of around six months. But with Nutanix, we did not need to build a storage team and the timeframe to deliver and deploy it was a lot quicker. We got it running in just over two months.”
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450297644/Financial-trader-bets-on-hyper-converged-from-Nutanix
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