Euronet Worldwide Replaces Legacy Three-Tier Infrastructure With Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

Nutanix, Inc. announced the deployment of its Enterprise Cloud Platform with Euronet Worldwide, Inc., a firm processing secure electronic financial and payment transactions.

The deployment enables Euronet to modernise and simplify its IT infrastructure. The objective is to improve business-critical applications performance while achieving a projected 63%  TCO savings over a five-year period, by Euronet’s estimates.

By replacing the legacy three-tier IT infrastructure with the Enterprise Cloud Platform, Euronet is expecting to save nearly two-third of the operational costs over five years from hardware and support costs. In addition, it projected that the migration to Nutanix AHV (hypervisor) would save cost over the same five-year period just by eliminating the previous VMware licensing and annual support costs.

The deployment also enabled Euronet to deliver performance improvements with its business-critical applications.

Baskar Raj, CTO, Euronet APAC, said: “For example, a batch process to create mobile prepaid recharge reports used to take around 25 minutes with the traditional infrastructure. This has now been reduced to about 10 minutes with the Nutanix solution. This amounts to around eight hours of IT infrastructure effort savings every day that the report is run. Another important advantage is the provisioning of infrastructure for the business requirements which happens within the same day, thereby reducing our time to market and providing agility to the business. This also helps Euronet in moving closer towards a software-defined-datacentre (SDDC).“

Nutanix Prism also provided a single, integrated dashboard to help reduce management complexity and improve productivity of the IT team.

Niranjan Parulekar, Euronet’s head IT infrastructure and security, added: “In one of the cases, a 56 VM workload deployment with storage, server and virtualisation environment upgrade was done in just half a day across two sites with Nutanix. A similar deployment with the previous legacy infrastructure would have taken six to seven days. The one-click upgrades, shared storage management for SQL and predictable capacity planning translated into about the time spent by four full-time IT admin staff in a year. This helps us in bringing in more efficiencies and channelling our efforts towards business deliveries.“

Euronet also estimated significant savings in terms of reduction in power and cooling (69%), administration time and cost (51%), datacentre rack space (92%), storage foot print (40%) over the next five years. The estimated ROI is 326%  within the same five-year period compared to the traditional infrastructure.

“Since the beginning of the deployment in July 2016, we’ve worked closely with the visionary IT team at Euronet to ensure the infrastructure modernisation delivers more than just cost savings. In addition to cost-efficiency, we are proud to bring improved productivity to the table. We believe IT infrastructure should provide scalability, reliability and more importantly, convenience and productivity like the public clouds – but without compromising on the control over your own datacentres. Euronet is a great example to showcase the business benefits with the right team and infrastructure in place,” said Sunil Mahale, VP and MD, Nutanix India.