Fairway Independent Mortgage: Scaling Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Protecting Borrower Data with Nutanix
For over two decades, Fairway Independent Mortgage has helped homebuyers navigate the home-financing process. Facing shifting interest rates and market volatility, the mortgage lender needed an agile IT infrastructure that could rapidly expand or contract without adding unnecessary overhead costs or risking delayed loan closings.
How Did Fairway Independent Mortgage Achieve Hybrid Cloud Flexibility and Secure Storage with Nutanix?
Navigating Market Volatility and Infrastructure Expansion
The mortgage industry experiences frequent economic cycles, requiring IT operations to scale up during high-volume periods and shrink during slowdowns without over-investing in physical hardware. Managing hundreds of legacy server nodes and fragmented storage arrays created high operational complexity, unpredicted costs, and risk.
Elastic Cloud Scaling and DR with Nutanix Cloud Clusters
Fairway deployed Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure to create an elastic hybrid cloud footprint and disaster recovery (DR) landing zone. Using NC2, the IT team migrated workloads without re-architecting applications or upskilling staff. Fairway can “double, triple, or quadruple” cluster capacity within an hour for full DR testing, then quickly scale back down to optimize cloud spend.
Unified Data Governance and Ransomware Thwarting
To consolidate multi-array storage and guard against industry ransomware threats, Fairway implemented Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) integrated with Nutanix Data Lens (NDL). Managed through a single interface in Prism Central, Data Lens delivers real-time monitoring, automated permission auditing, and proactive ransomware detection, ensuring seamless data access to help borrowers close on time.
Key Benefits
Rapid Cloud Elasticity
Scaled cluster capacity up to 4x within an hour for seamless DR failover testing in Azure.
Proactive Ransomware Defense
Implemented Nutanix Data Lens for real-time visibility, governance, and ransomware threat detection.
Lower TCO & Zero Missed Closings
Consolidated multiple storage arrays into Prism Central, lowering TCO and keeping loan closings on schedule.
At Fairway, we never miss a closing, and Nutanix Unified Storage enables us to keep that promise.
Frequently Asked Questions
Nutanix NC2 provides Fairway with an elastic DR environment in Microsoft Azure that replicates data directly from on-premises systems. Jarod Hallmark, VP of IT Infrastructure at Fairway Independent Mortgage, highlights that NC2 allows the company to scale up cluster capacity up to four times within an hour to perform full DR failover tests, then scale down immediately to avoid paying for unused physical resources.
Migrating to NC2 on Microsoft Azure creates an elastic hybrid cloud footprint that reduces operational complexity. Key benefits include the ability to:
- Migrate workloads without re-architecting applications or upskilling staff.
- Optimize cloud spend by adjusting cluster capacity instantly based on demand.
- Establish a secure disaster recovery landing zone to ensure business continuity
The mortgage industry experiences frequent market volatility and shifting interest rates. Implementing an elastic hybrid cloud infrastructure can help financial institutions to:
- Scale IT operations rapidly during high-volume periods.
- Shrink capacity during market slowdowns without over-investing in physical hardware.
- Maintain high system availability to prevent delayed loan closings.
Nutanix Data Lens gives Fairway unified visibility into file activity, usage metrics, and permission settings across their storage environment. With built-in ransomware detection and real-time monitoring, Data Lens helps Fairway proactively defend against cybersecurity attacks, audit user access, and maintain strict data governance across borrower records.
By replacing fragmented storage arrays with Nutanix Unified Storage managed centrally via Prism Central, Fairway eliminated separate management silos and simplified workflow administration for engineers. This single-pane-of-glass management reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) while ensuring high system availability so home buyers can finalize loan closings without delay.
Managing hundreds of legacy server nodes and fragmented storage arrays creates unpredictable costs and potential risk. Organizations can address this by implementing a modern infrastructure strategy to:
- Consolidate multi-array storage into a single management interface like Prism Central.
- Eliminate separate management silos for IT engineering teams.
- Deploy a unified platform across on-premises and public cloud environments.
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