Nutanix has announced that Sligro Food Group has chosen Nutanix to migrate and expand its existing legacy desktop and datacenter infrastructure into the new era of web-scale IT. Sligro took the decision to invest in a major IT upgrade program to replace its ageing network of desktop computers and associated server based applications. With around 1,200 users distributed across two datacenters, it made sense to standardize on a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) approach, reducing the management, support and capital investment expense associated with traditional desktop deployments.

Furthermore, the realization that the new infrastructure would need to handle other workloads beyond the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, coupled with a lack of in-house skills needed to support traditional Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, convinced Sligro that Nutanix's Web-scale solution would be an ideal option for the migration project. Sligro has since gone on to install Nutanix appliances across both of its national datacentres, migrating not only its desktop user base to the new VDI infrastructure, but in addition other critical line of business applications running on VMWare, including the replacement of 42 conventional server hosts and a traditional IBM storage network. The company will also virtualize its Microsoft Exchange and SQL to complete what has since grown into a comprehensive and very successful datacentre migration project.