Hyperconvergence can bring radical simplicity to private clouds, but, it takes much more to build an enterprise data centre with the power of public cloud.
Nutanix delivers invisible infrastructure for next-generation enterprise computing by natively converging compute, storage and virtualisation into a single hyperconverged solution to drive simplicity in the data centre.
“The cloud era is well underway because it offers rapid time to market, fractional IT consumption, one-click simplicity and continuous innovation,” Philip de Waal, Nutanix Senior Sales Engineer, told attendees at Pinnacle TechScape 2017.
“Hyperconvergence has been a stepping stone to help Nutanix pioneer the Enterprise Cloud OS, and the world’s most advanced data centres are building their Enterprise Cloud with Nutanix.”
The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform combines the agility and one-click simplicity of public cloud infrastructure with security, control, predictable economics and the performance you need from a private cloud.
It starts with the building blocks of hyperconverged infrastructure, which removes data centre complexity by bringing storage and servers together.
Hyperconverged infrastructure natively integrates compute and storage into a single x86-based server deployed in scale-out clusters and reduces power and space, and dramatically eliminates storage complexity.
Nutanix hyperconverged solutions are totally software-defined with no reliance on special purpose hardware for resilience, performance and availability, allowing for new capabilities without hardware upgrades.
Data, metadata and operations are distributed across the entire cluster, reducing performance bottlenecks and enabling predictable scalability.
There is no need to manage your network separately because, with an Enterprise Cloud, networks adapt to business applications, and provide full visibility of physical and virtual network resources.
It also offers virtualisation, and with Nutanix, the hypervisor is no longer a standalone product – it’s just a feature of the Enterprise Cloud Platform.
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud includes native security services that protect against attacks originating inside and outside the data centre, keeping data and applications secure and compliant.
“With the US Federal government being one of our clients, security is included from the ground up and has been part of the development from the word go. It is not something we added on at a later stage,” added de Waal.
The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform enables you to run any application, at any scale. Built on the foundation of hyperconverged infrastructure, it uniquely delivers the agility and simplicity of public clouds in your data centre.
Legacy applications need to coexist in a world with modern, cloud-native services that are agile and containerised, and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud supports all applications—the old and the new.
This makes your IT infrastructure truly invisible, so you can focus on the applications and services that power the business, and you can seamlessly move your applications to the right infrastructure or cloud as your business evolves without vendor lock-in.
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud also brings you the benefits of one-click simplicity and full stack automation, allowing you to build your cloud in minutes and run your applications without waiting weeks or months.
To take IT simplicity to the next level, your Enterprise Cloud needs to be self-learning, so rich machine intelligence enables infrastructure to adapt to application needs so that services run efficiently and reliably.
For more information, visit the Nutanix website.