Case Study
Maryland Lottery Bets on Nutanix—and Wins Big!
©2017 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved CHALLENGE The Maryland Lottery’s IT environment consisted of a broad mix of legacy server and storage systems, including several IBM BladeCenter servers with direct attached storage. The legacy infrastructure was being used to support all enterprise and business office applications, including the Lottery’s Microsoft Dynamics accounting and general ledger systems, help desk application, websites, operational tools, Splunk applications, domain controllers, MS SQL databases, and backup infrastructure. Due to the complexity of the traditional 3-tier environment, the Lottery’s IT team was spending far too much time managing these disparate servers and storage infrastructures. When the time came to refresh the aging systems, they started looking f