When Nutanix, Inc. started a few years ago, many wondered whether the world really needed another hypervisor. What they may not have realized is that companies and organizations are all unique, and they have different infrastructure needs. On a scale of one to 10, something like security could rank two for some, five for others, or even 10 for some. This is why the whole gamut, from on-prem physical clusters to the public cloud, has a place.

Louis Carr, Jr., CIO of Clark County, Nevada, spoke to Stu Miniman (@stu) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the Nutanix .NEXT Conference about his divided attitude toward public cloud. Like most, he likes the convenience and ease, but with the data he handles, the security question is a tad off-putting.

“We have some data — criminal justice data — and we’re very cautious of where we put it, where we store it,” he said.

Benefits package

Carr said that Nutanix’s hyper-converged infrastructure has proven to be the solution. Not only does it offer the peace of mind of on-prem, but he said the County has reaped a host of other benefits.

When Miniman asked Carr about the payoffs of investing in hyper-converged infrastructure, Carr replied, “One is just because of the compact nature of hyper-converged infrastructure.”

He spoke of a facility where “we would have used two or three racks, but we’re using just half a rack, so that’s a hard cost savings every month — the gift that keeps on giving, we like to say.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the Nutanix .NEXT Conference 2016.

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