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Continent 8 has transitioned its virtualization environment from VMware to Nutanix, a move influenced partly by changes in VMware's licensing and driven by a shift towards hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). This decision is also influenced by the growing partnership between Continent 8 and Nutanix.

In a recent interview with SBC News, Edward O'Connor, Chief Technology Officer at Continent 8, shares the details about the strategic business decisions and the internal transition from VMware’s Cloud Foundation platform to Nutanix’s Acropolis and Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) platforms for internal workloads. Read the article to find out more.

• Upgrading current or soon-to-be end-of-life (EOL) hardware, engineered to scale for both present and future capacity and performance needs.
• Futureproofing against unexpected industry shifts and volatility by designing and implementing resilient, highly available infrastructure for sustained success.
• Reducing hardware infrastructure and physical footprint to minimise operational costs.
• Providing a detailed ROI cost comparison across various alternative vendor options to highlight direct cost savings.
• Evaluating, prioritising and scheduling migration operations to ensure minimal impact and downtime.
• Managing all migration operations, allowing customers to focus on their core job functions.
• Gaining the advantage of an industry partner with extensive experience in assisting iGaming and online sports betting customers transition from non-virtualized or HCI architectures to fully managed, compliant HCI environments.

Edward O'Connor at Nutanix Showcase July 2024

Watch Edward O'Connor detail Continent 8's planning, collaboration, communication, training and migration from a traditional three-tier VMware architecture to a Nutanix HCI-based platform.

In this video snippet, Edward discusses our Nutanix footprint, which has doubled in the past 12 months.

Continent 8 Technologies migrates enterprise VMware customer to Nutanix virtualised hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)

Discover how Continent 8 helped migrate an iGaming and online sports betting technology services supplier’s legacy "all-VMware" virtualised architecture to a cost-effective, high-performance Nutanix HCI platform, designed to deliver high availability, scalability and multi-purpose workload support.