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Publication Date: 2026-10-28 13:48:00
Emerson Electric wanted its many offices and businesses to be on the same page when it came to storage and backup.
The Fortune 500 manufacturing company has approximately 76,500 employees and nearly 1,000 individual business sites. Emerson Electric has had numerous acquisitions over its history, including pneumatic components manufacturer Aventics and food waste disposal system manufacturer InSinkErator.
All of those businesses complicated things because each new acquisition brought in their own IT products for their individual needs, said Zachary Kruszewski, design engineer at Emerson Electric. That forced Emerson’s IT team to work with multiple vendors and track which site used which vendor.
“Each business unit is out there doing their own thing,” Kruszewski said.
In his projections, Kruszewski found that Emerson Electric will have about 8.5 PB of secondary data by fiscal year 2021, and twice that number on the primary side.
Kruszewski knew he needed a way to consolidate and standardize every office onto the same platform. In 2016, he started deploying Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure at each remote site, which would give him scalability, centralized governance and a single pane of glass. He estimates about 35% of the sites are on Nutanix now, with the rest on VMware. His goal is to reach 50/50 by the end of this year.
When Emerson Electric adopted Nutanix, the MSP it worked with recommended Commvault for…
