![]() ![]() The company expects to move all customer-facing workloads to the Nutanix platform within the next few months, and an offsite disaster recovery cluster, based in a separate facility in Chicago, will be up and running later this year.Ĭurrently, Hallmark’s development and production infrastructure operates across 11 datacenter racks. Now in the second year of a three-year roadmap, Hallmark Business Connections is on track to complete its next generation datacenter by the end of 2016. “Moving that workload to the Nutanix cluster allowed us to decrease development time considerably, by up to 72 percent, enabling us to easily meet our target of delivering new system builds up to 12 times a day.” With a traditional architecture, developing and deploying new production builds took 1-2 hours,” said Bob Dussault, Director of Infrastructure and Information Security Officer at Hallmark Business Connections. “We rely heavily on in-house applications to support our business and take a DevOps approach favoring continuous integration builds. Following impressive proof of concept trials and the subsequent successful implementation of the data analytics project, Hallmark quickly expanded the project’s scope and budget, and now plans to migrate all of its datacenters to Nutanix. The company first evaluated hyperconverged offerings as a scalable, yet affordable, solution that would not compromise its existing three-tier compute, storage and virtualization infrastructure for a planned business analytics project. To date, Hallmark Business Connections has implemented a datacenter migration program which will allow it to slash its operational costs by as much as 55 percent.Īs the business-to-business arm of Hallmark Cards, Hallmark Business Connections focuses on the delivery of reward and incentive programs for employees and customers of Fortune 500 companies located across the US. ![]() The company is already realizing the benefits of Nutanix’s invisible infrastructure solution and has seen substantial performance and productivity returns. San Jose, California – Aug– Nutanix, the next-generation enterprise computing company, today announced that Hallmark Business Connections has selected Nutanix as the infrastructure platform of choice for its next generation datacenter. Hallmark Cards’ B2B arm replaces three-tier datacenter infrastructure with Nutanix to reduce development build times by 72 Percent Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery.
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