VAR helps 'iconic' Science Museum embrace hybrid cloud

Eurotech Computer Services rolls out Nutanix solution for Science Museum Group

Storage and high-performance computing VAR Eurotech Computer Services has designed and implemented the first phase of a plan to build a hybrid cloud infrastructure for the Science Museum Group (SMG).

The publicly funded organisation, whose five sites welcome five million visitors a year, is midway through rolling out a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud solution as part of its efforts to digitally transform.

Nutanix Master partner Eurotech Computer Services designed and implemented the solution and is supporting SMG throughout the project.

In the first phase, SMG claims it has already achieved several key milestones, most notably the virtualisation of all IT workloads, including key apps needed to manage buildings, visitors, volunteers, collections and school visits.

"Our teams now benefit from Nutanix's linear scalability to cope with future growth, in addition to much needed data backup and disaster recovery capabilities," said SMG's head of ICT programmes, Amardeep Rai.

"We've gone from having a hard to scale infrastructure with limited disaster recovery facilities, to a highly automated and available solution, enabling us to move forward with confidence and concentrate our efforts on harnessing the potential of digital."

Andrew Boyce, MD Eurotech Computer Services, added: "We work hard with our partners to deliver customer solutions using technologies we love, and knew we had to deliver something special for a customer so iconic as the Science Museum Group.

"It has been a pleasure working with the team, and we are extremely pleased with the collaborative partnership we have built with them and our partners throughout the project."

SMG's five sites, including the Science Museum in London and National Railway Museum in York, house a collection of 7.3 million items spanning science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine.