LA Fitness Trims off Infrastructure With Nutanix

LA Fitness Trims off Infrastructure With NutanixLeading Health Club Chain Realizes Unparalleled Datacenter       Performance and Simplicity with Software-Driven Converged Infrastructure

Nutanix,       a leading provider of hyper-efficient, massively scalable and elegantly       simple datacenter infrastructure solutions, today announced that LA       Fitness has chosen its Virtual Computing Platform to power its       datacenter infrastructure for the next five years and beyond.

Inspired by Google-like datacenters, LA Fitness was searching for a       scalable platform that would enable the company to achieve the internal       mandate that “simpler is better.” After rapidly growing its headcount to       30,000 across more than 600 locations in the U.S. and Canada, LA Fitness       was experiencing challenges to keep pace with the company’s growing       compute and storage requirements. The existing SAN-based infrastructure       was struggling to keep up with performance requirements for over 100       virtualized applications including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and       SharePoint, as well as an important VDI initiative. LA Fitness sought       not only to eliminate the underlying performance issues of legacy       storage architectures, but also to select a vendor that could scale and       grow with the company over the next several years. Nutanix was selected       over traditional incumbents due to its simple manageability and       predictable scale – both from an economic and performance perspective.

Kevin Derenard, Director of IT Infrastructure, LA Fitness commented:       “When evaluating vendors, achieving the highest possible performance for       our applications was paramount, but we also wanted a technology that we       could count on to power our infrastructure for years to come. Since       implementing Nutanix, LA Fitness has seen dramatic improvements in       application performance and accelerated time to production for new       virtual machines. With Nutanix we have achieved 7x faster storage, 3x       more SQL transactions per section, and 12x more web pages delivered per       second.”

LA Fitness is currently deploying more than 100 virtualized enterprise       workloads on Nutanix, with an eventual goal of standardizing all       applications to run on the Virtual Computing Platform. The company also       plans to expand its VDI project to multiple groups and departments,       which would present scalability and budget challenges using traditional       server and storage products.

“Technologies such as cloud and virtualization have dramatically       accelerated the pace at which organizations must evolve their IT       departments,” said Matthew Soroka, Director of Server/Storage at CDW.       “We work closely with clients such as LA Fitness to not only to help       solve their current technology challenges, but to provide them with       solutions that also enable their future objectives. We were pleased to       introduce Nutanix to LA Fitness. Nutanix has proven technology that is       rapidly making an impact on the datacenter landscape.”

“LA Fitness is shifting its IT strategy to bring converged       infrastructure to the forefront,” said Parmeet Chaddha, VP Global       Services and Customer Success, Nutanix. “Nutanix’s unique,       software-driven approach to converged infrastructure has made it       possible for LA Fitness to blow previous performance records out of the       water and set the company up for continued success as it strives to       virtualize all of its workloads on Nutanix.”

Gartner Data Center Conference 2013

Kevin Derenard, Director of IT Infrastructure at LA Fitness, will       present additional details on the Nutanix deployment at the Gartner Data       Center conference. Details of the session are below.

How       LA Fitness Got Their Datacenter in Shape with Converged Infrastructure Tuesday,       December 10th 4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Location: Venetian F

Visit Nutanix during the conference at booth #401.

About Nutanix

Nutanix provides datacenter infrastructure solutions that are       hyper-efficient, massively scalable and elegantly simple. The       award-winning Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform has disrupted the       market by seamlessly and natively converging compute and storage in a       single appliance. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif. with offices and       authorized solution providers throughout the world, Nutanix is privately       held and backed by top-tier VC firms. For more information, visit http://www.nutanix.com/.

Bateman Group for Nutanix Scott Beaver, 415-503-1818 nutanix@bateman-group.com or Nutanix Declan       Waters, +44 (0) 7799 674 830 Director, Corporate Communications Declan@nutanix.com