Your AI-Ready Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure is here: Announcing Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Google Cloud

The journey to a true hybrid multicloud reality takes a major leap forward today. We are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Google Cloud solution. This launch marks a significant milestone in our commitment to providing freedom of choice, enabling you to seamlessly run, manage, and modernize your applications, data, and AI anywhere—on-premises, at the edge, and in public clouds, now including Google Cloud.

Organizations are navigating increasingly complex IT landscapes, seeking to harness the power of the public cloud whilst still needing to manage on-premises and edge footprints. With NC2 on Google Cloud, we are breaking down the barriers to hybrid cloud adoption. NC2 offers a consistent platform that accelerates migration, simplifies operations, and unlocks future innovation in the cloud without the need for refactoring or rearchitecting applications.  Uniquely, NC2 is a software solution, not a managed service, so you're in control of your deployments and your data, but without the management overhead of a data center.

Built on a High-Performance Foundation: Google Cloud’s native Bare Metal

At the core of this solution is the power of Google Cloud's new Z3 and C4 Bare Metal instances powered by Titanium.  These Google Compute Engine (GCE) bare metal instances are purpose-built for high-performance and storage-intensive workloads.  By running Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) directly on these physical servers within your Google Cloud environment, NC2 offers a differentiated solution for virtualization in the cloud.

This means you can run your most demanding applications and databases, with the performance and resilience you expect from Nutanix, while taking full advantage of the elasticity and massive scale of Google Cloud. The Nutanix HCI software runs within the Google Compute Engine on the same hardware platforms used for Google Cloud’s own VM instances.  This allows it to operate directly within your organization's Google Cloud Projects and Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), rather than as a siloed, managed service. 

Significant benefits from the NC2 on Google Cloud solution include seamless networking integration, a unified operating model across hybrid environments and accelerated migration into your Google Cloud VPCs. It also has the ability to leverage your existing Google Cloud Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) and other cost-saving programs, enabling cloud migration projects to flexibly adapt as they progress without limiting innovation.

Go Global in Hours with Google Cloud's Worldwide Reach

In today's global economy, business agility depends on your ability to deploy infrastructure where and when you need it. NC2 on Google Cloud leverages Google's vast and expanding global network. This allows you to rapidly scale your infrastructure footprint into new regions, bringing applications and data closer to your customers to drive performance and support, data sovereignty and other regulatory requirements.

Image: The global reach of NC2 on Google Cloud at GA

This global reach, combined with the ability to deploy a full Nutanix cluster in just a couple of hours, unburdens your teams from lengthy hardware procurement cycles and provides unprecedented agility for your business.  NC2 will initially be available in 17 Google Cloud global regions at GA, expanding over time, and will be available on the Google Cloud Marketplace allowing Google customers to draw down Nutanix software on their existing spending commitments.

A Bridge to Modernization with Market-Leading AI Services

One of the most exciting aspects for IT teams is the seamless bridge it creates to Google Cloud’s world-class data, analytics, and AI services such as BigQuery, Vertex AI, and Gemini. Organizations are eager to modernize their applications and leverage innovations in AI/ML, but migrating legacy workloads can be a significant roadblock and transformation inflight can be time consuming and potentially risky.

The NC2 solution is especially powerful when used as an “unblocker” for the most data-center-bound applications, such as those that rely on legacy operating system versions, databases or virtualisation technologies. NC2's “data center like” architecture means it's relatively simple to migrate from data center based virtualisation platforms, like VMware’s ESXi or Microsoft’s HyperV, without having to refactor, re-architect or transform applications. Furthermore, as Nutanix licenses purchased for on premises use are portable to Google Cloud, you can rebalance your hybrid deployments as your cloud migrations progress.

Image: The Nutanix Move application mobility tool makes it easy to migrate VMs and data to NC2 on Google Cloud and is included for every Nutanix customer at no additional cost. 

But for all workloads, whether the most critical, complex, the hard to change legacy monoliths, or even just general virtualization, NC2 on Google Cloud provides the ideal on-ramp to modernization. Your new and/or migrated applications can seamlessly connect to, and integrate with, powerful native Google services like BigQuery, Vertex AI, and other AI/ML tools. 

NC2 also enables the transformation of legacy applications using the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution, which runs seamlessly across hybrid Nutanix deployments and on Google Cloud. This allows you to modernize at your own pace in Google Cloud, enriching your existing applications with cutting-edge capabilities and building a foundation for future innovation.

Get Started Today

Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Google Cloud is more than just another cloud service; it’s a platform for transformation. It empowers you to build a robust, AI-ready hybrid cloud that accelerates your business, simplifies your operations, and prepares you for the innovations of tomorrow.

Click here to learn more about NC2 on Google Cloud or click here to take a Test Drive to see the simplicity of NC2 on Google Cloud for yourself.

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