“We really needed a place to properly secure backups because we couldn’t afford to build infrastructure for that storage on-premises,” he says. His district opted for HCI through a trio of partners: Nutanix, Wasabi and HYCU. “We appreciated the performance we were getting, and the cost was predictable, which is really the most important thing for us.”
In addition to the predictable cost model, Hotchkiss staff members benefit from the simple transition to HCI and its management, as well as the advanced security this cloud-based model provides.
HCI Makes Management Easy for Small IT Teams
Transitioning to HCI, and subsequently managing it, has been simple, Warenda says, even with a small IT team.
“Hyperconverged, with its simplified infrastructure, is easier to manage. It requires fewer people and less resources to manage,” he says. “When you have to upgrade a lot of complex things in the background, from an end user’s or system administrator’s perspective, you click some buttons and that takes care of upgrading the software.”