Case Study
Empire Life
Nutanix Slashes Datacenter Footprint by 16:1, Reduces IT Costs, Simplifies Storage Management, and Transforms Disaster Recovery Company Background Empire Life helps Canadians build wealth and protect their financial security with competitive individual and group life and health insurance and a variety of investment and retirement products. Founded in 1923, Empire Life was named the “Best Life Insurance Company in Canada in 2014” by World Finance magazine in its annual insurance awards competition. Relying on an Aging Mainframe Environment Empire Life’s infrastructure includes a mainframe environment, with a large SAN backend and standard x86 servers. “We are using the mainframe for all of our critical financial data and daily investment transactions,” noted Dave Hunter, IT di