Western Union and Everland Shifted to Nutanix
The migration highlights an industry move toward alternative cloud infrastructure to avoid rising licensing costs.
Updated on Oct. 5, 2026 in Data Centers
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Western Union and Everland have migrated their core IT infrastructure to Nutanix platforms. The transition follows a broader trend of organizations reevaluating their virtualization providers to gain greater workload flexibility.
Why it matters
Everland shifted platforms to bypass increased maintenance costs stemming from changes to VMware's licensing policy, while Western Union seeks to better manage its 900 to 1,200 services across 200 countries.
Everland completed its migration from VMware to Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS in just three months. The architecture allows Western Union to manage its 500,000 retail locations while balancing workload flexibility with regional data residency compliance.
The players
Nutanix
A provider of hybrid multicloud computing software that allows enterprises to run applications across private data centers and public clouds.
Western Union
A financial services firm operating a global network of 500,000 retail locations and managing over 900 distinct software services.
Everland
A major South Korean theme park operator based in Yongin that manages high-availability systems requiring constant uptime.
The details
Everland used Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS, which enables companies to run their virtualized software stack on public cloud hardware without requiring a full application rewrite. By maintaining a consistent architecture during the transition, the theme park ensured its round-the-clock systems remained available. Western Union, which supports hundreds of thousands of locations, continues to evaluate whether to refactor or replace its legacy applications as it modernizes its massive service footprint.
Timeline
2026: Nutanix .NEXT 2026 conference held in Chicago.
The Tech Race
This move marks a departure from the long-standing reliance on traditional virtualization vendors that dominated the last decade of enterprise data centers. Organizations are increasingly prioritizing hybrid-cloud portability to mitigate the risks associated with restrictive proprietary licensing.
For users of these platforms, the shift enables consistent performance for critical systems that must remain online 24/7. The transition demonstrates how large enterprises can maintain compliance with local data residency laws while consolidating their diverse application stacks.
The takeaway
The rapid three-month migration highlights the feasibility of moving complex, high-availability workloads when faced with shifting licensing costs. Watch for further enterprise migration benchmarks to be discussed at the Nutanix .NEXT 2026 conference in Chicago.
Further reading
For more on how infrastructure transitions are reshaping enterprise operations, visit the Data Centers section.
Source note: This article includes information reported by Frontier Enterprise.
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