Close Brothers: Modernizing Financial Services with Nutanix
For over 150 years, Close Brothers has helped small and medium-sized businesses unlock their full potential through tailored financial services. But when strict regulatory demands and an unexpected vendor end-of-life notice threatened their primary hosting platform, the bank needed a faster, safer path to the cloud—without risking service disruptions for its customers.
How Did Close Brothers Migrate to NC2 on Azure with Minimal Downtime?
Navigating Strict Regulations & Sudden Change
Maintaining legacy infrastructure in financial services is a constant balancing act between strict regulatory demands and the desire to modernize. When Close Brothers was forced to replace its core hosting platform, they needed a solution that could deliver speed, trust, and zero disruption to daily banking operations.
Seamless Cloud Migration with Nutanix NC2
To prevent a costly outage, Close Brothers deployed Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure. The platform allowed the IT team to lift and shift legacy applications without rewriting code, delivering a continuous, robust hosting environment from day one.
Predictable Spend and a Future-Proof Foundation
Beyond reliable uptime, the transition empowered the bank to rightsize its infrastructure, curb unnecessary resource usage, and accurately forecast long-term cloud costs. Backed by their partnership with Nutanix, Close Brothers now operates on a secure, automated framework built for ongoing innovation.
Key Benefits
“No Outages to Date"
Maintained 100% service availability without any outages during migration into Azure.
Seamless Migration
Lifted and shifted business-critical legacy applications seamlessly using Nutanix Move.
Predictable Costs
Identified over-provisioned servers to optimize CPU, memory, and storage spend.
NC2 has provided that foundation that's going to help the bank achieve their strategies and their goals around modernizing the application state in the future.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Close Brothers deployed Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure and used Nutanix Move to lift and shift legacy applications directly into the cloud. Steve Pitcher, Sr. Infrastructure and Cloud Architect at Close Brothers Bank, reports that this seamless transition enabled the bank to maintain 100% service availability across all business units with zero outages.
Nutanix NC2 provides a secure, consistent framework that helps Close Brothers fulfill heavy compliance demands. Crucially, the platform allows the bank to demonstrate a clear cloud exit strategy to regulators, enabling compliance and operational flexibility.
Built-in intelligent tooling within Nutanix NC2 allows Close Brothers to identify over-provisioned servers. By rightsizing CPU, memory, and storage usage, the IT team avoids resource waste and accurately forecasts future cloud expenditure.