©2017 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved CHALLENGE “One of my biggest challenges as an IT director is that infrastructure funding is always a struggle,” said Jon Junell, Assistant Director of IT at Western Washington University. “When we do make investments, they’re usually large, flashy, and expensive new projects. When we finally get budget approval to upgrade our existing infrastructure, we usually buy 100% of what we might eventually need upfront, since we can’t be sure we’ll get additional funding when we need it. If we underestimate the project scope, we can encounter serious pinch points down the road if there isn’t budget to expand.” WWU was relying on several aging HP EVA SAN arrays that were reaching end- of-support. “The HP systems were providing the ‘blazing speed’ of 800

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