Saudi educational institutions to modernize their IT infrastructure with Nutanix

Nutanix, a hybrid multicloud computing provider, is heavily focused on assisting Saudi educational institutions in modernizing their IT infrastructures and accelerating digital transformation initiatives.

Tareq Hassan, Senior Enterprise Sales Manager – Saudi Arabia says, “Learning will increasingly take place using a hybrid approach that more flexibly combines classroom and remote learning—and enables both with the latest digital technologies. Educational institutions in the Kingdom are eager to embrace improved learning pathways which can present significant challenges for legacy IT infrastructure.”

New trends such as distance learning, educational portals, BYOD, virtualization, learning applications and instructional videos are creating new models of teaching and learning, and require requisite support by campus IT systems. IT infrastructure needs to be more adaptable than ever to address these trends under tighter budgets and with limited IT resources. Nutanix understands these imperatives and provides a simple solution for a future-proof IT infrastructure for modern educational institutions,” Hassan added.

The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform is a hyperconverged infrastructure solution that natively combines compute, virtualization, and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with deep machine intelligence. With a simple scale-out architecture that allows educational institutions to start with small deployments and grow incrementally into very large installations, Nutanix delivers cost savings and predictable scalability for even the most intensive workloads.

The Nutanix platform’s advanced architecture enables high availability across all system components to an unlimited number of concurrent users. The platform’s ease of configuration allows institutions to roll out as budgets allow—by campus, department, or grade level.

Nutanix Prism is the ideal end-to-end consumer-grade management solution for educational institutions, combining various aspects of administration and reporting to provide unprecedented simplicity. Prism can mine large volumes of system data using advanced machine learning technology to automate common tasks and generate actionable insights for optimizing virtualization, infrastructure management, and day-to-day operations. New resources for research and education projects can be provisioned and deployed in minutes rather than weeks or months.

Nutanix supports all popular hypervisors, allowing IT teams to manage the datacenter using their preferred tools. All Nutanix solutions include AHV virtualization, which provides a high-performance, license-free hypervisor with built-in management to educational institutions.

“Technology can accelerate the transformation of education, democratize access, and facilitate lifelong learning. With mid-career education critical to a changing economy, education is no longer just for the young. Nor is it strictly dependent on geography or having the ability to relocate. Digital technology can enable institutions to exponentially expand their reach. Nutanix provides technology solutions that accelerate digital transformation and shape the future of education,” concludes Hassan.