Qirx rips out Canberra school’s ‘decades old’ IT architecture

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Marist College Canberra

Marist College Canberra

Credit: Marist College Canberra

Canberra-based Qirx has ripped out an entire rack of storage area networks (SANs) for local Catholic school Marist College. 

The IT solutions provider was tasked with overhauling Marist’s three-tier data centre architecture including servers, storage and networking – a system created decades ago. 

Qirx then deployed Nutanix’s hyper-converged infrastructure in an effort to simplify the college’s “complicated” systems architecture. 

Sam Walton, Marist ICT systems and operations manager said the college’s IT environment supports 2000 students, plus teachers and extracurricular activities. 

“The role of IT is to support all the different departments and all the applications they want to run in a single environment.”  

Having set up Nutanix, the school has gone from a full rack of SANs and hosts, which “were much more complicated and required a lot more maintenance”, to just to keep running, to Nutanix which Walton said is essentially “set up and forget”. 

“In our IT team, we have to know so much about everything, so the really good thing about Nutanix is that it just works – I can’t be dedicating resources to maintaining the environment every week,” he said. 



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