Pulse Pharmaceutical Distributor uses Nutanix HCI to develop its IT infrastructure

2020: Using Nutanix HCI for IT Infrastructure Development

On December 1, 2020, Nutanix, a company in the field of corporate cloud computing, announced that the Russian pharmaceutical distributor FC PULSE uses the company's solutions to develop its IT infrastructure. Consulting and integration services in the project were provided by KPBS - a partner of Nutanix with the status of Cloud Champion. FC PULSE has chosen the Nutanix-based computing platform as the most productive and flexible scalability solution to ensure the reliability and security of all components.

Earlier, the pharmaceutical distributor used the power of his own DPC with a traditional three-level architecture, and placed a number of loads on the dedicated infrastructure of the Russian -. hostingprovider However, this combination did not meet the needs of a rapidly developing business: for example, over the past 8 years, the company's revenue has grown 15 times - up to 221 billion rubles. As of December 2020, FC PULSE has 14 regional companies and is actively developing services according to the model of an external logistic operator (3pl) for large pharmacy chains, which requires complex integration IT of systems and operational procedures with partners.

As possible ways to improve the platform for IT operations, FC PULSE considered both options for the further development of its traditional data center, as well as the possibility of replacing it and deploying a private cloud based on a hyperconvergent infrastructure.

We've been looking at several alternatives to our IT infrastructure. Among them are the main providers of computing solutions - HPE, Dell, IBM, various hyperconvergent solutions. As a result, we settled on Nutanix, since it was with this company that the HCI market actually began.

During the project, the specialists of the Nutanix partner - the companies KPBS conducted infrastructure audits, pilot tests and testing of solutions on the Nutanix platform, then on their basis they performed individual selection of solutions and configuration for industrial operation. As a result Nutanix HCI , 8 nodes of the High-End class in the All Flash NVMe configuration are managed. KPBS provided hardware installation and ON training for the FC Pulse IT team, as well as providing advice and support when migrating applications from old equipment and from the cloud provider infrastructure. In addition, KPBS fully supports the entire Nutanix infrastructure of the customer.

For a company like PULSE, it is important to have a flexible platform that can adapt to the needs of the business as quickly as possible. Infrastructure management is simplified with Nutanix, which allows you to concentrate not on administration, but on the development of IT and the company, "commented Alexey Orlov, head of Nutanix at KPBS.

'Nutanix solutions are suitable for creating a private cloud when companies impose increased demands on the performance, reliability and security of the environment for applications and data and for objective reasons do not want to take them to external platforms, as was the case with FC PULSE. It is Nutanix HCI as the latest generation infrastructure that allows them to get almost the same performance and scalability capabilities while maintaining complete control.