Ireland and the United Kingdom enterprise technology-change research

PT-2026-292 · dossier edition · 28 September 2026

PlatformTrace

Enterprise platform change across Ireland and the United Kingdom.

data centre and infrastructure migration · completed

Falkirk Council virtualises around 140 physical servers on Nutanix

Falkirk Council virtualised and moved around 140 physical servers to Nutanix during its data-centre relocation, completing the bounded first phase of its hybrid Cloud First programme.

Organisation
Falkirk Council, United Kingdom
Predecessor
a largely physical legacy estate of roughly 200 servers with limited virtualisation
Destination
around 140 source-described physical servers virtualised on a Nutanix cluster in the new data centre, with additional Nutanix clusters for storage and security services
Workload
Nutanix Cloud Platform and AHV
Stage
completed
Evidence boundary: The record covers only the completed core legacy-system migration. The planned migration of roughly 400 school servers and future NC2 or public-cloud work remain future steps and are excluded.

Verified platform change

Falkirk Council virtualised and moved around 140 physical servers to Nutanix during its data-centre relocation, completing the bounded first phase of its hybrid Cloud First programme.

Transition

From: a largely physical legacy estate of roughly 200 servers with limited virtualisation

To: around 140 source-described physical servers virtualised on a Nutanix cluster in the new data centre, with additional Nutanix clusters for storage and security services

Known unknowns

The record covers only the completed core legacy-system migration. The planned migration of roughly 400 school servers and future NC2 or public-cloud work remain future steps and are excluded.

Official sources

  1. Scottish Council Works Its Way To Cloud First Compliance With Nutanix — 2024-10-18