Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, and Citrix Systems, Inc. formed a strategic partnership to help you build a simple, secure, and performant infrastructure for a digital learning environment. From K-12 to research universities, running Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops on the Nutanix® Cloud Platform simplifies solutions, enhances security, and delivers excellent student and staff experience. There are 3 major benefits of building a Nutanix + Citrix technology stack at your instit...
Feb 10, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 42
I’m a habitual note-taker when speaking with customers about their efforts in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and hybrid cloud. And most of the time, I always find a fascinating story buried in the observations I put to paper. This happened when I examined my notes from a recent discussion with Adrian Darmawan, executive vice president and CTO of First Foundation Bank , which provides personal and business banking, private wealth management and trust services. He gives credit to the Nutanix ...
Jan 28, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Chances are, traditional SAN has been part of your lineup for many years—and you’ve likely wondered, “what else is out there?” We've been conducting some in-depth field research and discovered that HCI truly is the way to go. But in the interest of fairness, we wanted to share some of the most compelling reasons to move to HCI from your SAN solution. If your goal is to accelerate your digital transformation so that you can improve customer experience and help your business evolve, then Nutanix H...
Jan 21, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 40
We are very excited to share a demo of the new Generic USB Redirection feature of the Nutanix Frame® DaaS solution (which is now available in Early Access with the release of Frame App for Windows 6.7 and later)! Generic USB Redirection further expands Frame’s support for USB peripheral devices, including advanced/specialty devices such as Bloomberg® keyboards! In this blog we will demonstrate the seamless integration of Bloomberg multi-function keyboards within a Frame session via the Frame App...
Dec 17, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 39
At Nutanix, our customers are increasingly looking to move to a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud world and are looking to leverage the latest technologies both on- and off-premises to gain the highest levels of efficiency and flexibility. With the Nutanix Objects™ release v.3.3, we’re extending our capabilities to include a number of new features that allow customers to fully leverage cloud-native technologies while providing the flexibility of a multi-cloud deployment. Host: Andy Whiteside Co-host: ...
Nov 29, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 38
I recently read a blog post from a storage vendor attempting to make the case that HCI (Hyper-converged Infrastructure) is not a good fit for healthcare. They used their strategic partner’s HCI solution, VMware VSAN as the example, but tried to apply their reasoning to all HCI. My first thought was to wonder what Nutanix’s hundreds of happy healthcare customers would think of such an argument. I often meet with customers who make the case to ME on why Nutanix is a great fit for their life-critic...
Nov 24, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 37
The dust has settled from the Nutanix .NEXT 2021 Digital event and we are thrilled with the outcome! Attendees were able to immerse themselves in the latest hybrid multicloud advancements that will help them digitize and transform their businesses, improve activity, deliver innovative customer and employee experiences, and gain a competitive edge. There’s still time to catch up on all that you missed. As Ben Gibson, Nutanix CMO, shared at the inception of the event, this is .NEXT on Your Terms! ...
Nov 22, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has come a long way since its inception in 2009 ( check out MIT's review on this ). Today, SDN is poised to become the de facto control and management solution for networks everywhere. This trend toward SDN has been accelerated through the exponential digital transformation of the pandemic with customers now looking to hybrid multi-cloud for answers. Nutanix’s SDN journey chartered a new path in 2018 with SDN, launching Nutanix® Flow Security with Microsegmentat...
Nov 12, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 35
The migration of applications from physical servers to virtual workloads has been underway for over two decades, but the migration from virtual machines to containers is less than a decade old. Modernizing applications to run as containers requires new tooling and the open source Kubernetes project has emerged as the widest adopted container management system. Kubernetes provides cloud-native capabilities, architecture, and operations which require new skill sets, posing a disruptive challenge t...
Nov 02, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 34
In recent years, and the last 18 months in particular, IT teams have been under pressure to become more agile to support an increasingly hybrid workplace amidst ever evolving business needs. Many businesses have packed years’ worth of digital transformation efforts into a short span of time while operating under reduced budgets. Both private and public cloud vendors are striving to better serve their customers’ needs, which frequently includes running workloads on a mix of on-premises and cloud ...
Oct 29, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Nutanix’s Frame® desktop-as-a-service, with its ability to deliver virtual desktops and applications on non-persistent virtual machines, is a key part of the security posture of many customers. When combined with Frame application mode, which eliminates the Windows® Desktop and focuses the end user on a single set of published applications, Frame provides enterprises with a secure way to deliver Windows applications and not lose control of the underlying data. As a part of our Enterprise Profile...
Oct 22, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In recent years, and the last 18 months in particular, IT teams have been under pressure to become more agile to support an increasingly hybrid workplace amidst ever evolving business needs. Many businesses have packed years’ worth of digital transformation efforts into a short span of time while operating under reduced budgets. Both private and public cloud vendors are striving to better serve their customers’ needs, which frequently includes running workloads on a mix of on-premises and cloud ...
Oct 05, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Ever wondered what it would take to build your own private cloud with Nutanix? Well, now you can try it out with the all-new Nutanix Test Drive 2.0 . If you want to experience frictionless IT, you can put our software to the test in this new and improved demo. We’re excited to deliver this new release so that you can test out the infrastructure that thousands of companies rely on every day for fast, efficient datacenter operations. With just a few clicks, you’ll accomplish tasks that used to tak...
Sep 28, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 30
In this week's episode, we cover the top 10ish announcements from Nutanix .NEXT 2021 according to Jirah. With a few interruptions from his friends. Host: Andy Whiteside Co-Host: Harvey Green Co-Host: Jirah Cox Guest: Randy Brown Guest: Jeff Melnick
Sep 24, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 29
People have many reasons for getting technical certifications. It can be a stepping stone to a new job. It can be a way to show off what you've learned over the years. And some people collect them to prove their professional expertise across a variety of technologies. IT companies create certifications for many reasons as well. It can help customers get the most value out of the product. It can help reduce support costs, which frees up company resources to focus on innovations and new products. ...
Sep 15, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Provisioning new databases and cloning database requests make up a hefty portion of a database administrator’s (DBAs) workload. As reported in Forrester’s Total Economic Impact survey for Nutanix Era , database provisioning is time consuming, tedious, and often requires additional approvals for new systems to support the new provision. DBAs reported that “to handle the capacity of existing database management and incoming requests, the DBA teams often needed to work overtime and weekends” (Forre...
Sep 02, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Operating systems can end up being a lot of work for administrators. They need to work to configure the image, install the applications, and provide the best user experience possible. As with any software, what is provided to you is what the developer intended, but not necessarily what you want or need for your end users. This blog series introduces you to Microsoft Windows® Operating System (OS) optimizations, starting with version 1903. I will attempt to keep these optimizations as environment...
Aug 26, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Operating systems can end up being a lot of work for administrators. Work to configure the image, work to install the applications, and work to provide the best user experience possible. As with any software, what is provided to you is what the developer intended, but not necessarily what you want or need for your end users. This blog series introduces you to Microsoft Windows® Operating System (OS) optimizations, starting with version 1903. I will attempt to keep these optimizations as environm...
Aug 18, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 25
The modern workplace has changed dramatically since the COVID 19 pandemic, and organizations everywhere are adopting digital workspace solutions to ensure business productivity, continuity, agility, and security, all while lowering costs. Digital workspaces are not a new idea, but too often deployment and operational complexity have kept organizations from realizing the benefits these solutions offer. Fortunately, there are solutions that can help significantly reduce this complexity. Building a...
Aug 09, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Today, we are proud to announce the availability of Nutanix Mine™ with Commvault®. Nutanix and Commvault have had a longstanding partnership over the last six years. Commvault was the first partner to provide data protection as a simple, secure, and transformative reality for our joint customers. Data protection has become a global IT directive across countries, industries, and organizations that are busy responding to the rapid shift of remote work and rising cyber threats. That is why the most...
Aug 03, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 23
To cut through the ubiquitous noise of automation hype, let’s briefly talk at a high-level about the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure industry’s automation journey and provide applicable guidance regardless of where you may be along your unique journey. With recent advances in automation, machine learning, data analytics, and cloud computing, we are all expected to achieve more with less. Even the most technologically savvy departments in our organizations have had challenges adapting....
Jul 26, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Xi Leap is a natively integrated DR Service that serves as a seamless extension to the onprem infrastructure - thus providing a true hybrid cloud experience. Customers can configure Protection Policies and Recovery Plans to protect and recover applications in case of a disaster OnPremises to the Cloud. True to Nutanix’s design principle of simplicity, a lot of complexity associated with traditional DR - Multi Vendor Point Solutions, different panes of glass for administering infrastructure and D...
Jul 12, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 21
I am pleased to announce the latest version (version 3) of the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture tech note is now available for download. The Nutanix® Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture is a comprehensive document that is meant for an organization’s Enterprise Architect team. This guide is very technical and walks a customer through more than 100 design decisions that should be taken into consideration when deploying Nutanix solutions in a hybrid cloud or private cloud model. Host: An...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Host: Andy Whiteside Co-Host: Harvey Green Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Jun 16, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Dramatic Increase in Remote Workforce Working from home, or is it living at work? Nearly everyone has been affected, either directly or indirectly, by the shift to remote work. Although remote work had been increasingly common, the pandemic caused a spike that has fundamentally altered attitudes by both employees and employers. FlexJobs.com reports that “a Gartner survey of company leaders found that 80% plan to allow employees to work remotely at least part of the time after the pandemic, and 4...
Jun 07, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Nutanix Files provides single pane of glass management simplicity, software defined flexibility, and deep analytics intelligence to meet the modern challenges organizations face around file data. Nucleus Cyber’s NC Protect data-centric security solution is now validated as a Nutanix Ready AHV to provide Nutanix Files users with the ability to dynamically discover, classify and secure sensitive data to ensure secure collaboration and meet regulatory compliance. In addition to discovery and classi...
May 25, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Many organizations’ plans around digital transformation and work from anywhere (WFA) initiatives were realized in 2020. Why? Simple, you either delivered it so your organization could continue to conduct business, or you couldn’t, and your business has struggled to keep pace. At its core, digital transformation is business transformation. And doing business in 2020 was disrupted by the pandemic. Host: Andy Whiteside Co-Host: Harvey Green Co-Host: Jirah Cox
May 11, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 16
When provisioning End User Computing (EUC) solutions (providing virtual desktops and applications to end users) hardware and software limitations have kept the conversations centered on finding a balance between maximum density and the most optimal user experience. In this blog, I’ll describe how innovation from Nutanix and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) effectively eliminate this constraint, allowing organizations to focus on fulfilling business requirements and justifications instead. Host...
May 04, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 15
*Original Release With remote working now the new normal, it is challenging to send skilled IT professionals to data centers to install new equipment. Although Nutanix clusters have always been quick to install and configure, there was still a requirement to send a trained IT technician to site to run the Foundation software for deployment, usually connected to a local laptop. For large-scale or multiple sites, this can be a costly exercise. How could we make this even easier in a ‘work from hom...
Apr 27, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Nutanix delivers a hybrid and multicloud platform called Nutanix Clusters , which helps businesses accelerate their cloud journey by delivering the best of both worlds - seamless private and public cloud operations. We believe Nutanix Clusters offers the best hybrid and multicloud solution in the market for customers looking to quickly deploy and integrate their existing on-premises datacenters with multiple public clouds. If you want to move your on-prem applications to clouds such as AWS while...
Apr 21, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 13
