The Software-Defined Datacenter Just Got More Powerful

The Executive Dilemma: Modernize or Fall Behind

Today’s CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs aren’t just investing in IT—they’re betting on business agility, operational resilience, and competitive edge. Yet legacy infrastructure—complex, costly, and inflexible—holds many organizations back. In an era where AI-driven innovation and operational resilience define market leaders, outdated infrastructure is a silent killer.

Enterprises face a dilemma: modernize without disruption or risk falling behind. Nutanix and Dell Technologies have partnered to eliminate this tradeoff—delivering a future-proof platform for AI, analytics, and mission-critical workloads.

Nutanix and Dell Rewrite the Rules

Nutanix and Dell Technologies have partnered on PowerFlex with Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), to bring the best in software-defined infrastructure to our joint customers.  PowerFlex is the first external storage supported and integrated with the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution—giving customers flexibility without complexity.*

• Leverage Dell’s industry-leading servers with the latest silicon technologies to users.
• Add Nutanix virtualization and management capabilities to Dell’s battle-tested scalability.
• Flexible deployment options with enterprise-grade security and disaster recovery.

Why this matters: Customers can decouple compute and storage without sacrificing simplicity— they can now embrace AI, analytics, and next-gen workloads without ripping and replacing existing investments.

Two Deployment Options, One Unified Platform

Simplicity where it matters: For workloads demanding simplicity, such as VDI and ROBO, Dell XC Plus is an ideal solution. Now, customers can extend that simplicity to external storage, simplifying management with the Nutanix Prism management console  and PowerFlex Manager. Additionally, users can choose from over 12,00 applications certified by Nutanix on the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, now supported by Dell’s global hardware support and Nutanix software support.

Data-intensive workloads including AI. Dell PowerFlex shines for AI, analytics, and large-scale databases. It can handle petabytes of data with sub-millisecond latency and dynamically allocates resources for GPU-heavy inferencing or RAG workflows, making it future-proof for AI. The combined solution delivers enterprise-grade resilience with snapshots, replication, and DR initiated from Nutanix Prism but executed at the Dell PowerFlex layer. Zero-trust security is ensured through microsegmentation via the Nutanix Flow solution, which is critical for regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, and government.

Modernize without Compromise

The Nutanix-Dell partnership isn’t just about technology—it’s about choice, agility, and trust. Customers can embrace AI and run traditional and modern workloads without overhauling existing infrastructure, while future-proofing their environment with a solution built for the next decade of workloads.

Nutanix and Dell are redefining enterprise architecture with the integration of PowerFlex and NCP. 

Learn more nutanix.com/dell and join us next week at Dell Tech World. 

* Based on Dell and Nutanix analysis, July 2024, CLM-012555

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