After a long 3-year hiatus, Nutanix returned with a bang, hosting an in-person conference at Chicago’s McCormick Place for .NEXT 2023. For those who couldn’t join the crowd, don’t worry; we’ve got you covered.
Nutanix, a pioneer in hybrid multicloud infrastructure solutions, made some significant announcements, revealing new products and a forward-thinking strategy that could transform how customers operate across distributed environments and speed up the rollout of modern applications.
Here are the five significant announcements:
- Project Beacon
- Nutanix Central
- Nutanix Cloud Platform
- Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK)
- Multicloud Snapshot Technology
Project Beacon: Nutanix launched this multi-year venture with a vision to provide a range of data-centric Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services that can be utilized anywhere, on Nutanix infrastructure, or in the native public cloud.
Project Beacon aims to separate applications and their data from the underlying infrastructure, empowering developers to create applications once and run them across diverse environments. As an initial step, Nutanix plans to broaden the capabilities of its Nutanix Database Service (NDB) to the public cloud as a managed service. This offers the same automation and management experience (already available) on Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). Plans include extending this to other data-centric platform services.
Nutanix Central: This is a cloud-delivered solution that offers a unified console for visibility, monitoring, and management across various cloud environments, including public cloud, on-premises, hosted, or edge infrastructure.
Nutanix Central is designed to break down silos and simplify the management of applications and data anywhere by extending the universal cloud operating model of the Nutanix Cloud Platform. It also offers integrated security and license portability.
Nutanix Cloud Platform: Nutanix announced upgrades to their Cloud Platform aimed at driving higher performance and increased security for applications and data, all of which will be manageable through Nutanix Central. Enhancements include optimized database performance with a reduced total cost of ownership and simplified networking and micro-segmentation capabilities across customer, partner, and hyperscaler-owned networks.
Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK): This new offering provides customers with scalable control over cloud-native applications and data. Initially available as part of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), NDK brings Nutanix’s enterprise-class storage, snapshots, and disaster recovery (DR) to Kubernetes, which can accelerate the development of containerized applications for stateful workloads by adding storage provisioning, snapshots, and DR operations to Kubernetes pods and application namespaces.
Multicloud Snapshot Technology: Nutanix’s new technology allows for cross-cloud data mobility by enabling snapshots to be saved directly to cloud-native hyperscalers’ S3 object stores, with AWS S3 being the first. In addition, Nutanix Objects now integrates with Snowflake, enabling organizations to use Snowflake Data Cloud to analyze data on Nutanix Objects directly, ensuring data stays local and accelerates time to value. This technology opens new possibilities for hybrid multicloud data protection, recovery, and mobility use cases.
Summary: Nutanix’s fresh slate of products and capabilities aims to offer its customers a seamless hybrid multicloud experience, ensuring consistent management across all endpoints and enabling applications and data to run anywhere. This provides a comprehensive suite of data-centric platform services to facilitate scalable application development. These new offerings underline Nutanix’s commitment to increasing operational efficiency and accelerating the deployment of modern applications.
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