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Outside the box: hyperconverged infrastructure and the economy of innovation | #NEXTConf
While the digital transformation holds promise for companies to increase profits and deliver value to customers, these are still early days. Businesses may feel rushed to implement unproven technologies that dig deep into their budgets. In this new era, they must find new test and development avenues that put less skin in the game, according to Yaser Allan, senior manager of IT Operations at Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait.
Allan spoke to Stu Miniman (@stu), co-host of theCUBE*, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Nutanix 2016 .NEXT Europe. They discussed the importance of innovating within a budget. “With the traditional solution, we have to make a huge investment to achieve the business goal. So the VDI [virtual desktop infrastructure] was one of the projects,” he said. Allan added that his company uses Nutanix to cut time and cost invested.
“It was successful because we had very quick implementation,” Allan explained, adding that Nutanix works swimmingly with Citrix, which also helped.
Free ideas market
Allan said that his bank is in the process of moving test and development to Nutanix Acropolis (a powerful scale-out data fabric for storage, compute and virtualization), which gives the bank leeway to try new ideas with minimal risk.
“You pay very minimum, and if the idea is not a successful idea, your loss will not be huge,” he said. “So this gives the business the opportunity to think out of the box, get new ideas, and try to implement them.”
Thinking outside the box
Allan said that Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure is set for out-of-the-box test/dev. “They support the hypervisor, which is different than Nutanix, and they support sometimes Citrix,” he added.
Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Nutanix 2016 .NEXT Europe.
*Disclosure: Nutanix Inc. and other companies sponsor some Nutanix 2016 .NEXT Europe segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither Nutanix nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.
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