The Andalusian Public Foundation for Progress and Health has embraced Nutanix’s hyperconvergence technology to transform its technological infrastructure, optimize its processes, become more sustainable, and significantly reduce management time.
The Andalusian Public Foundation for Progress and Health is an entity dependent on the Ministry of Health and Consumption of the Andalusian Government. With 400 employees, its main lines of activity include promoting research and innovation (R&D&I) in the health sector (contributing to the development of excellent biosanitary research), specialized training in technical professional competencies, and accreditation (through the Andalusian Agency for Healthcare Quality or ACSA).
Facing constant growth, the Foundation needed to incorporate new systems, improve efficiency, reduce the workload of the technology team, and integrate heterogeneous environments more easily. After opening a public tender, they decided to embrace Nutanix’s hyperconvergence technology, with IaaS365, a certified Nutanix partner, leading the implementation.
“At first, what caught our attention the most was how disruptive the hardware solution was, the hyperconvergence platform, but we quickly realized that what Nutanix offered was much more thanks to its software tools, services, and support quality,” says Esteban Toro Quijano, subdirector of information systems and technology at the Andalusian Public Foundation for Progress and Health.
The new infrastructure was up and running in just three months, with its main components being the Nutanix hyperconvergence solution, Acropolis Operating System (AOS Pro), the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, and Nutanix Pulse.
Among the main benefits achieved by the Foundation are efficiency and sustainability. In fact, the Foundation estimates that 50% of the time previously spent on managing IT services is now dedicated to more strategic tasks, such as security, improving the governance model, internal organization, or growth. Additionally, the efficiency and cost savings provided by Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure have played a key role in the Foundation’s commitment to sustainability and innovation in the healthcare sector. This technology, along with a new data center cooling system and the implementation of photovoltaic solar panels, has led to electricity consumption savings ranging from 41% to 16% on the electricity bill throughout different periods of 2023.
“It is very important for us to see how a healthcare reference, like the Andalusian Public Foundation for Progress and Health, opts for solutions that can be quickly implemented and that offer not only agility but also simplicity, freedom of choice, flexibility, scalability, and cost reduction,” says Jorge Vázquez, general manager of Nutanix Iberia.