Nutanix Weekly

Nutanix Weekly: Announcing Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Google Cloud Public Preview

Expanding freedom of choice and workload mobility have long been core to the evolution of Nutanix products. We’re pleased to announce a path to another major cloud provider with the addition of the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) solution on Google Cloud public preview. Blog Post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/announcing-nutanix-cloud-clusters-on-google-cloud-public-preview Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra Co-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix...

Nutanix Weekly: Introducing Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for External Storage

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the NCI Compute product, enabling Nutanix customers to leverage external storage as part of their NCP deployments. The first supported solution at launch is the Nutanix Cloud Platform with Dell PowerFlex, a complete server-based infrastructure solution designed for large mission-critical environments where resiliency, security, scalability, and performance are essential. Blog Post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-cloud-infrastructure-fo...

Nutanix Weekly: Why You Should Run Nutanix Kubernetes Platform on Nutanix Cloud Clusters

The Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) platform is a cost-effective solution for managing virtualized workloads in the cloud. It also provides the quickest way to move to the cloud without the need to refactor applications. NC2 can help with applications that run in virtual machines (VMs), but it can help equally well with containerized apps running in Kubernetes, thanks to the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution, which runs both on-premises and on NC2. Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/why-yo...

Nutanix Weekly: 100th Episode Celebration

We're got a milestone with 100 episodes where we will recap some of our best moments from the first 99 episodes, some behind the scenes stories, with trivia and prizes. Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra Co-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix Co-Host: Ben Rogers, Nutanix Co-host: Chris Calhoun, XenTegra Co-host: Andy Greene, XenTegra Special Guest: Tom Powell, Nutanix

Nutanix Weekly: Moving from Multiple Clouds to Multicloud: 6 Steps to Creating a Modern Environment (Part 2)

Podcast Part 2 >> When you’re ready to make the move to a unified hybrid multicloud environment, it might seem daunting at first. You are most likely currently managing multiple operational silos across public, private, and possibly hybrid clouds and have been for years, and adapting to the minor and major inconveniences those disparate environments are causing you today. Blog post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/moving-from-multiple-clouds-to-multicloud Host: Phil Sellers, Practice Director...

Nutanix Weekly: Moving from Multiple Clouds to Multicloud: 6 Steps to Creating a Modern Environment (Part 1)

Nutanix Weekly: Multiple Clouds or Multicloud? Understanding the Key Differences

The terms “multiple clouds” and “multicloud” are often used interchangeably, but they represent distinctly different approaches to cloud strategy. Blog post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/multiple-clouds-or-multicloud-understanding-the-key-differences Host: Phil Sellers, Practice Director for Modern Datacenter Co-host: Andy Greene, Solutions Architect Co-host: Chris Calhoun, Solutions Architect

Nutanix Weekly: AOS 7.0 Launch Blog

We are excited to introduce the next major AOS release for the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution, Version 7.0. This release is designed to help customers enhance fault tolerance, simplify automation, strengthen security, and improve networking across their Nutanix infrastructure. Blog link: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/transform-your-cloud-experience-with-nutanix-aos-7-0-and-ahv-10 Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra Co-Host: Chris Calhoun, XenTegra Co-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix Co-Host: Ben Rogers, Nutani...

Nutanix Weekly: Elevating hybrid cloud for AI, databases and general-purpose workloads at Microsoft Ignite

Hybrid clouds are gaining popularity and maturity as organizations juggle workloads with different performance, governance and efficiency requirements. Nutanix has long held the view that most organizations will require both on-premises and public cloud presence. As a result, Nutanix has invested in building a platform that provides the best way to create a unified hybrid cloud architecture. At Microsoft Ignite, Nutanix to shared best practices for running hybrid workloads and simplifying your h...

Nutanix Weekly: Talking Healthcare with Nutanix Field CTO Kurt Telep

In this episode, we talk with Healthcare Field CTO for Nutanix, Kurt Telep. The conversation talks about trends in healthcare, challenges that healthcare customers are seeing and the ways that Nutanix can help customers facing thin margins, compliance and business pressure to operate IT efficiently. Host: Phil Sellers Co-Host: Kurt Telep

Nutanix Weekly: Elevate Your IT Infrastructure with Long-Term Support Release: Nutanix AOS 6.10

Discover the new Nutanix AOS 6.10 release - the next cornerstone for the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution. This Long-Term Support (LTS) release not only enhances performance, manageability, and security but also marks a new era for hybrid multicloud capabilities. Combining features from versions 6.6 through 6.81 into a single update, AOS 6.10 represents a significant advancement amidst the rapid pace of technological change. Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/elevate-your-it-infrastructure-with-l...

Nutanix Weekly: Storage Mobility to Meet the Challenges of Hybrid Multicloud

Today’s business challenges are unprecedented. Companies are dealing with an explosion of data and applications. IT environments are complex and acquisitions of longtime vendors are having the C-suite rethink their install base. Meanwhile, shadow IT is swiping credit cards simply to get work done which exacerbates the challenge. Lack of flexibility and choice lead business units to solve their problems the best way they can. Unfortunately, some decisions are not easy to change once applications ...

Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Expands Support for vSAN Ready Nodes

Nutanix now supports the reuse of certain vSAN Ready Node hardware, allowing organizations to repurpose their previously-purchased hardware and transition smoothly from VMware to Nutanix. Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-expands-support-for-vsan-ready-nodes Host: Phil Sellers Co-Host: Chris Calhoun Co-Host: Jirah Cox

Nutanix Weekly: Interview with NTC Andrea Ribeiro - technologist, blogger & NUG leader

A slightly different episode this week for Nutanix Weekly. This session is a conversation with Nutanix Technology Champion, Andrea Ribeiro. Andrea is a Nutanix User Group leader for Sao Paulo, Brazil, and she is a blogger and community participant focused on Nutanix. We talk about how she got started contributing to the Nutanix community, gaining the recognition of Nutanix and peers. Host: Phil Sellers Guest: Andrea Ribeiro, thelittleriver.co...

Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Unified Storage Takes the Lead in MLPerf Storage v1.0 Benchmark

Nutanix Unified Storage™ is now a leader in AI storage performance using the latest MLPerf™ Storage v1.0 benchmark, with a 2x performance improvement over last year’s result, establishing NUS as a gold standard for AI and machine learning applications. Source Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-unified-storage-wins-the-mlperf-storage-v10-benchmark Host: Phil Sellers Co-Host: Jirah Cox...

Nutanix Weekly: Running NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Nutanix

Artificial Intelligence in the datacenter is one of the more exciting announcements from Nutanix in the last couple years and the partnership with NVIDIA is growing. In this episode, we walk through what it takes to run NVIDIA Inferencing Server on Nutanix and how that works with real-world implications that you can test yourself. Reference Blog: https://www.nutanix.dev/2024/01/15/running-nvidia-triton-inference-server-on-nutanix/ Host: Phil Sellers Co-Host: Harvey Green Co-Host: Jirah Cox...

Nutanix Weekly: Empower Nutanix Data Protection With New HYCU Innovation

This week, we talk with Subbiah Sundaram from HYCU, one of the strongest Nutanix ecosystem partners, about the recent innovations and protections for data hosted in Nutanix services. HYCU was first to market with support for AHV backups, the collaborated with Nutanix to develop backup APIs for Nutanix Files and most recently, HYCU announced support for Nutanix Database Services or NDB, during the .NEXT conference in Barcelona. This podcast is based on HYCU's Blog Post, Empower Nutanix Data Prote...

Nutanix Weekly: Recap from Nutanix .NEXT 2024 in Barcelona

This week is a special episode, recorded live from the Nutanix .NEXT 2024 event in Barcelona, Spain. On Tuesday, Nutanix held a keynote that unwrapped new capabilities in their software platform, focusing on AI and Cloud Native applications along with extending the reach of Nutanix AOS onto native cloud services in AWS. We will recap all the major announcements from new releases and software to hardware partnerships and enhanced on-prem AI capabilities. Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra Co-Host: Harv...

Nutanix Weekly: The Critical Role of Hybrid Multicloud

The pivot to a hybrid multicloud environment must form part of a CIO’s infrastructure strategy to take full advantage of next-generation solutions. The key for CIO’s and other C-level executives is to plan for and enable this critical eventuality in their enterprise. The compelling business case for adopting the shift to hybrid multicloud is highlighted in the sixth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) report. The findings of the ECI report reveal a notable increase in the planned deployment of h...

Nutanix Weekly: Announcing the General Availability of Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes

Today we are proud to announce the general availability of Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK). NDK extends Nutanix Cloud Platform infrastructure capabilities to application-centric data services for containerized workloads. With NDK 1.0, platform engineers can make it incredibly easy for developers to build and run containerized workloads without scrambling for storage management resources. Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-nutanix-data-services-fo...

Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Validated Designs - Blueprints for Success

Building a fully customized solution from scratch can be complicated. It requires researching various hardware and software products from multiple vendors and verifying that they offer everything you want and work together. You must also make several detailed design decisions, then evaluate the complete solution for supportability, maintainability and scalability to ensure that it meets your operational needs, can adapt to changing requirements, and offers a compelling TCO and ROI. At Nutanix, w...

Nutanix Weekly: Just-in-Time Cloud Storage for Nutanix Cloud Clusters

In the first iteration of Nutanix Cloud Clusters, your built-in NVMe storage was the only capacity you could tap into. With Nutanix's recent announcement of Just-In-Time storage with AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) you can now customize the amount of storage you need in a cluster with expansion capabilities. In this episode, we talk about the news from a blog post on nutanix.com posted by Dewayne Lessner about EBS with Nutanix Cloud Clusters. https://www.nutanix.com/blog/just-in-time-cloud-stora...

Nutanix Weekly: High performance Nutanix Unified Storage powers VDI

Deploying a VDI environment for a globally distributed workforce, BYOD, hot desk environments and call centers is complex and is hard to manage. However, the storage that supports VDI to run VMs and unstructured user profile data need not be. Exponential growth of unstructured data is putting a tremendous strain on the legacy three-tier architecture of VDI environments. Whether it is a single user VDI or a multi-user remote desktop service, deteriorating VDI performance, complexity in managing s...

Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Unified Storage: Ideal for High-Performance AI and Modern Data-Intensive Workloads

We recently commissioned International Data Corporation (IDC) to evaluate the use of Nutanix Objects Storage for modern, data-intensive workloads. IDC examined the evolution of Object Storage which has ranged from cold data repositories for backups and archives to newer, high-performance object stores for data-intensive workloads. The study also involves insightful interviews with Nutanix customers who are using Nutanix Objects Storage for analytics workloads. https://www.nutanix.com/blog/modern...

Nutanix Weekly: Going Cloud Native: Build Apps Once, Deploy Anywhere

As organizations adopt strategies to remain agile and competitive, cloud-native containerized applications are becoming a business imperative. In fact, the 5th annual Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index article reported nearly all 1,450 IT decision makers surveyed (94%) reported having deployed Kubernetes® containerization which is the most commonly used cloud-native framework. Embracing the concept of containerized apps requires a significant paradigm shift across every aspect of an organization—but...

Nutanix Weekly: Infrastructure Matters: Making Workload Migration Efficient and Cost-Effective

As organizations advance in their digital transformation journeys, they’re creating more applications than ever to meet modern customer and internal demands. Whether its cloud-native applications, traditional applications deployed in on-premises datacenters or modern applications deployed at edge locations, the number of apps is skyrocketing. In the 5th Annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) study commissioned by Nutanix, nearly all (94%) of the 1,450 respondents surveyed agreed with the statement ...

Nutanix Weekly: Multiple Clouds vs. Multicloud: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?

In the first installment of our What If You Could series, we defined hybrid multicloud and showed how Nutanix was the only vendor to make hybrid multicloud simple and cost-effective across on-premises and multiple public clouds. In this article, we take a deeper look into multiple cloud deployments—which often don’t equate to true multicloud—and why they can be a challenge. To survive in an increasingly competitive and shifting marketplace, organizations continue to look for ways to increase agi...

Nutanix Weekly: Deliver Enterprise Grade Edge AI/ML with Nutanix

In the past, the Hyperscalers have always been positioned as the default/ “you can’t go wrong” deployment zone for AI/ML workloads. But this is not true for many use-cases, see why AI and machine learning are drifting away from the cloud. Real-world examples from many ISVs and customers tell a different story with multiple drivers: low-latency, data privacy and cost (especially at scale) that make the Core DC (owned or hosted) a better choice. With leading market analysts agreeing on explosive d...

Nutanix Weekly: Beyond Ransom & Recovery: Defend Your Data Proactively with Nutanix Data Lens

Unstructured Data Under Siege In today’s digital age, data is the lifeline of businesses. It drives decision-making, influences strategies, and unveils market insights that can propel any organization ahead of its competitors. However, much of this data is unstructured, creating challenges with data visibility, and making it more vulnerable to cyber attacks and insider threats. The complexity of defending unstructured data from ransomware is a key obstacle hampering an organization's security po...

Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix and Cisco Joint Solution, Now Generally Available, Accelerates Customers’ Hybrid Multicloud Journey

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the ability for businesses to seamlessly scale applications, data, and infrastructure across data centers, edge, and the cloud is critical for innovation and growth. Our recent announcement of the Nutanix and Cisco strategic partnership reshapes the landscape of hybrid multicloud adoption and data center modernization, delivering a joint solution that is now generally available. Our partnership with Cisco is built upon our shared leadership in application...