Monday, May 28, 2018
Nutanix Beam
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure 2018
Nutanix believes its placement in the Leaders quadrant is a strong validation of its leadership in the market it pioneered and in its vision to become the next generation operating system for the enterprise cloud.
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Monday, November 13, 2017
My Experience Attending Nutanix .Next Europe 2017!
I was lucky enough to attend Nutanix .Next Europe 2017 in Nice, France. Really, it went beyond my expectations as a technology conference. Starting with the name of the venue “Acropolis Conference Center”, Opening Keynote with more than 2,200+ Cloud Builders, Recognizing of NutanixNTC, Live Demo by Steven Poitras (Writer of The Nutanix Bible) followed by very inspirational presentation by Fabien Cousteau & Rob Lloyd (CEO Hyperloop One), Ending with an remarkable closing keynote by Mick Ebeling “Founder NOT IMPOSSIBLE”.
Also, witness the passion for the technology & innovation between all attendees, including Nutanix Top Management, Staff, Sponsors and Customers.
Moreover, it was a good opportunity to hear all the latest announcements including “Acropolis Object Storage Service, Nutanix Calm & XI Cloud Services” and upcoming features in AHV 5.5 (e.g. Support for vGPU & Citrix PVS)
If you missed .Next Europe 2017, You still have the chance to watch the recorded Morning Keynote Day1, Afternoon Keynote Day1 & Keynote Day2
Or, register for .Next On-Tour to hear the highlights and hottest announcements from the .NEXT Conference.
Friday, June 30, 2017
Nutanix X-RAY
The following areas are covered in the X-Ray test scenarios:
- Availability X-Ray tests how a hyperconverged solution tolerates a node failure during a workload. Consistent performance and stability test the system's availability and the management fabric's failure tolerance.
- Realistic Performance X-Ray tests the system's solution to handle mixed workloads. The solution can include running databases on a single node, simultaneously running VDI workloads on multiple nodes, mixing VM snapshot, VDI boot storms, VM provisioning, and multiple workloads or stability over an extended period of time.
- Feature Set Ideal features include clones for VM provisioning, deduplication, compression, VAAI support, native VMlevel replication, Cloud Connect, 1-click software and hypervisor upgrades, BIOS/drives, compatibility with multiple hypervisors and the ability to migrate and convert between hypervisors with the same solution.
- Data Integrity X-Ray tests the data's safety during power outages or component failures.
Download Nutanix X-Ray and Docs
Nutanix Xtract
- Streamlined VM migrations with one-click simplicity
- Agentless infrastructure discovery and migrations
- Flexible VM network mappings
- Control over the cutover process with near-zero downtime
- Cost efficient – included with all Nutanix software editions
- SQL migrations from any source platform (hardware, virtual or cloud)
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Nutanix Xi Cloud Services
Xi Cloud Services will be operated by Nutanix and delivered from datacenters in the U.S., located in Northern Virginia and San Francisco Bay Area. We have also teamed up with Google to Fuse Cloud Environments for Enterprise Apps and deliver Xi from Google Cloud Platform datacenters.
Disaster Recovery (DR) Service
The first Xi Cloud Service that will be available is Xi Disaster Recovery (DR), a turnkey and integrated service that rapidly and intelligently protects the applications and data in your Nutanix environment without the need to purchase and maintain a separate infrastructure stack. Customers will be able to simply select VMs for protection, choose one of several subscription plans and setup protection – all from within Prism! The VMs will then be replicated in the background, ready to be recovered in the public environment in the event of a site failure.
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Nutanix Calm!
Friday, June 23, 2017
HYCU - The only backup and recovery purpose-built for Nutanix
Features:
- Native & Reliable data protection for VMs and mission-critical applications.
- 3 minutes to deploy through Nutanix Prism web console.
- 4 minutes to learn and protect virtual machines and applications.
- 2 minutes to restore VMs & Applications.
- Predefined backup policies (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) that simplify the data protection implementation.
- Automatic backup scheduling provides data protection based on your recovery point objectives (RPOs).
- In-built application awareness provides application discovery and application-specific backup and restore.
- Multiple data storage targets, including cloud services (Amazon, Azure) also local storages using NSF & SMB.
Licensing:
HYCU comes with a prebuilt Instant-on license that expires automatically after 45 days and cannot be reused. HYCU license is based on the number of CPU sockets on all Nutanix clusters.
Perpetual license:
•Nutanix SX series: USD $999/socket
•Nutanix NX series: USD $1500/socket
Subscription:
•USD $75/month/socket
Resources:
Press Release: Comtrade Software Introduces the First Data Protection Solution Purpose-built for Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
The Register: Software 'submarine' surfaces data protection for the Nutanix hypervisor crowd
Trial: http://tryhycu.com
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Comtrade SCOM Management Pack for Nutanix Version 2.0
- Easy Configuration Wizard.
- Optimize the performance of Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server on Nutanix.
- Troubleshoot Microsoft SharePoint Server issues faster, more accurately.
- An insightful lens into your bare-metal server health.
- Free 1-year subscription to Comtrade OMS Solution for Nutanix.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Nutanix Go!
Nutanix allow the Customers to use a hybrid model by mixing between owned & rented NX appliances in the same cluster. Also, guarantee the security of customer data if NX appliances returned at the end of the agreement by wiping out the data before returning to Nutanix.
Nutanix Go pricing is available now for certain Nutanix NX appliances to qualified U.S. customers, with international availability coming at a later date.
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New Hardware Options for Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
Customers will enjoy the optionality of deploying newly licensed Nutanix software-only entitlements on qualified HPE or Cisco servers while also retaining the option to transfer their software-only entitlements to another qualified third-party platform, including additional x86 servers anticipated to be validated at a later date.
Nutanix plans to make its Enterprise Cloud Platform software available for new and existing HPE ProLiant servers by Q4 calendar 2017. Specific models and supported server configurations will be announced at the time of availability. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software for Cisco UCS B-Series Blades is available now as a tech preview with general availability this quarter.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Enterprise Cloud for Dummies
The Enterprise Cloud for Dummies eBook sets out to demystify the concept. Discover how leading organizations are moving beyond hyperconvergence to an enterprise cloud strategy, bringing the benefits of the public cloud to their own datacenters—and find out how you can do the same thing.
In this eBook you’ll learn how you can:
- Prepare your organization for the new era of IT infrastructure
- Get the frictionless benefits of public clouds without sacrificing the control of on-prem infrastructure
- Leverage the newest best practices for enterprise storage, virtualization, and cloud technologies
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Citrix XenServer and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
Once the capability is released, Citrix XenServer users will find that the move to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform will bring the benefits Nutanix customers are seeing to their own environment. These can include:
- Faster upfront deployment and ongoing 1-click expansion
- Linear scaling of users without performance bottleneck
- Lower costs and operational overhead
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Nutanix Again Named a Leader in 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems
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Sunday, June 26, 2016
Monitoring Nutanix with Comtrade Management Pack for SCOM
The application awareness feature discovers business critical applications, such as Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop hosted on Nutanix enterprise clouds.
IT can now visualize from the applications to the metal, and monitor and understand how the Applications are using compute, storage and virtualization resources.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Test Drive Nutanix
Test drive Nutanix enables you to try Community Edition within minutes, with no hardware, no setup, and no cost for two hours.
Community Edition is a 100% software solution enabling technology enthusiasts to easily evaluate the latest enterprise cloud platform at zero cost. Users can now experience the same Nutanix hyperconverged technology that powers the datacenters of thousands of leading enterprises around the world.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Nutanix Expands Relationship with Microsoft
The new offering brings together the Microsoft Cloud Platform System (CPS) Standard and Nutanix enterprise cloud platform to deliver a Microsoft Azure-consistent environment within an enterprise datacenter.
The system is ideal for enterprise applications like Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics, which require high performance and availability.