Hybrid Multicloud Onramp with Nutanix Cloud Platform on Equinix Metal

Nutanix Cloud Platform on Equinix Metal is a hybrid multicloud platform solution that spans private and multiple public clouds with a unified management plane, license portability, and seamless application migration across multiple cloud environments.

Nutanix Announces Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection to Speed Application Deployment

Nutanix and Red Hat are working together to accelerate the development and deployment of new container-based, Kubernetes-orchestrated applications.

BLOG: Nutanix Database Service 2.4 Adds Faster Provisioning, Data Sharing, and Disaster Recovery Capabilities

I’m excited to announce the release of Nutanix® Database Service (NDB) 2.4, formerly called Nutanix Era.

Close all active Frame sessions

The Nutanix® Frame® Desktop-as-a- Service (DaaS) solution that allows administrators to create pools of non-persistent desktops and applications for use by internal and external users. When used on one of the public cloud infrastructures – AWS®, Azure® or GCP® clouds – this service can scale out very quickly and increase an organization's capacity to support a variety of use cases.

Understanding Layer 2 stretch in Nutanix Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

Layer 2 stretch enables VXLAN over IPsec on Nutanix VPN gateways to stretch an on-premises subnet to DRaaS. VXLAN technology is a Layer 2 overlay scheme over a Layer 3 network.

Nutanix and OVHcloud Partner to Combine the Benefits of Nutanix Cloud Platform and OVHcloud’s Hosted Private Cloud infrastructure

Nutanix, a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, has joined forces with OVHcloud, a global cloud provider specializing in delivering industry-leading performance and cost-effective solutions to help customers solve their infrastructure challenges.

Cloud Security: Private vs Public vs Hybrid

There are a lot of myths about the security of public cloud compared to private and hybrid cloud models. Click here to explore the benefits and risks of each.

​​Nutanix Support: Leading by Example Nine Years in a Row!

Every year, the NFSB Service Award recognizes companies who provide superior customer service as voted by their customers. The award uses the image of Mount Everest to symbolize exceeding customer expectations.

Announcing Multicurrency Support in Beam

Rein in Cloud Cost: Nutanix Announces Multicurrency Support in Nutanix Cloud Manager - Cost Governance

“Permission to Make Mistakes” is Key for Success and Other Advice for Growing Your Career

We spoke with Mahajan about her experience building a team, progressing her career, and cultivating a culture of well-being and growth.

Let's Learn Together

Nutanix Edu for All Initiative Gathers Resources in One Place

Nutanix stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

Nutanix stands in support of Ukraine. Here are the actions we are taking as a company to help Ukraine and its people.

Nutanix Cloud Platform on Equinix Metal: Combine the power of the Nutanix cloud stack with the bare-metal performance and global reach of Equinix

Fast and flexible access to IT infrastructure has become a critical success factor for modern business. Nutanix and Equinix have joined up to help enterprise IT teams reduce time to market for new applications and services.

Nutanix Introduces Policy Recommendations for Effortless Microsegmentation Planning in Security Central

A reimagined Security Planning now delivers Flow microsegmentation policy auto-generation, complete network view & intelligent VM category management

Is it Time to Reimagine Your Databases?

“What if your organization's databases just worked, with all the complexity and tedium of database administration and maintenance hidden from view?”

Introducing AOS 6.1

This week Nutanix announced the general availability release of our AOS™ 6.1 infrastructure software, delivering to customers higher performance, simpler management, enhanced orchestration capabilities, and more.

What is Hyperconverged Storage?

Hyperconverged storage is a complex data storage solution. Learn what it is, how it compares to other solutions and how Nutanix can help your business grow.

Using AWS Firewall with an Autodeployed SGA

By combining an autodeployed SGA with Amazon® Web Service’s (AWS) Network Firewall solution, a network administrator can get fine grained control of the outbound web traffic for Frame-managed workloads and still allow them to contact the Frame control plane. This blog will demonstrate how this can be done.

Elevating the Customer Voice

A Look Inside Customer Marketing at Nutanix

Adding a Streaming Gateway Appliance to Your Bring Your Own Azure Private Network

With BYO Networking, the Nutanix Frame® DaaS solution provisions Frame-managed workloads in your designated Microsoft Azure® VNet. Access to the workloads in that VNet remains within your private network.

Two Steps to Hybrid Cloud for Government: How Nutanix and Red Hat Simplify IT Operations and Modernize Applications

In taking this two-step approach, government agencies can get the best of both worlds by modernizing on-premises environments, simplifying application development and management, and locate apps and workloads on their cloud of choice that best supports their mission.

Solving Hybrid Multicloud Complexity: Nutanix Introduces Simplified Cloud Portfolio

Nutanix lets you seamlessly scale your apps, easily set up and tear down test and dev, run mission-critical workloads with stringent security and business continuity needs, and much more.

Announcing Nutanix Cloud Manager

As of Feb 15, Nutanix has announced the availability of the Nutanix Cloud Manager™ solution, beginning a new chapter in hybrid multicloud management.

From Intern to Channel Sales Manager

Rohit Jha Shares how he Progressed his Career

Plan Your Route to Success

2 New Tools to Help you Choose the Right Nutanix Certification.

Kickstart 2022 By Simplifying Your Database Operations

Nutanix has partnered with HPE to power up your databases for impactful business performance through the powerful combination of Nutanix Era® database manager on HPE’s Greenlake® offering.

ECI 2022: What IT Wants

Are you a salesperson, marketer, investor or engineer working in the technology industry? No? Then this blog posting is not for you. Nothing to see here, this is not the blog you’re looking for.

CSA STAR CAIQ Level 1 Self-Assessments available for Nutanix Frame, Nutanix Beam, and Flow Security Central

Nutanix has published the Level 1 Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) for the Nutanix Frame®, Nutanix Beam™, and Flow Security Central™ products.

Top IT Reads for 2022

For the past two years, we’ve compiled a list of must-read IT resources to help you realize your resolutions, spanning multiple categories: hyperconverged infrastructure, hybrid multicloud, databases, end-user computing, and beyond.

Nutanix® Solutions Provide Data and Security Protection for State, Local, and Education Organizations

Cybersecurity attacks are becoming progressively complex with an increase in Cloud, Digitization, and Work-from-Anywhere practices. State, Local, and Education (SLED) organizations must begin improving their security posture and aligning to a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA).

Modern Infrastructure for Better Digital Learning Experience

Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, and Citrix Systems, Inc. formed a strategic partnership to help you build a simple, secure, and performant infrastructure for a digital learning environment. From K-12 to research universities, running Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops on the Nutanix® Cloud Platform simplifies solutions, enhances security, and delivers excellent student and staff experience.

Partners Are Our Customers

Recently Nutanix received an immense honor in achieving Champion status in the Canalys Channel Leadership Matrix 2021 for EMEA, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific.

7 Reasons why HCI is Taking Over SAN Workloads

Chances are, traditional SAN has been part of your lineup for many years—and you’ve likely wondered, “what else is out there?” We've been conducting some in-depth field research and discovered that HCI truly is the way to go.

HIT Infrastructure: Perspective from a Field Sales CTO

After spending almost a decade working in Healthcare IT with my sleeves rolled up as a CTO, I witnessed firsthand the intensity of the challenges that face HIT.

Windows OS Optimization Essentials, Part 4: Startup Items

This blog series introduces you to Windows® Operating System (OS) optimizations, starting with version 1903. I will attempt to keep these optimizations as environment agnostic as possible. Hopefully, these optimizations will be just as good to administrators of physical machines as to a virtual environment utilizing Nutanix Frame®, Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops, or VMware Horizon®.

First Foundation Bank Case Study

I’m a habitual note-taker when speaking with customers about their efforts in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and hybrid cloud. And most of the time, I always find a fascinating story buried in the observations I put to paper.

Using a Bloomberg Keyboard with Nutanix Frame!

In this blog we will demonstrate the seamless integration of Bloomberg multi-function keyboards within a Frame session via the Frame App. For those unfamiliar, Bloomberg keyboards are specialized devices used by financial services customers to interface with the Bloomberg Anywhere™ solution.

Top 21 Partner Highlights of 2021

All of this progress provides an important foundation for partners into next year and beyond - to build your future, together. Happy Holidays to all of our valued Nutanix Partners!

Bank of Stockton Case Study

Automate Monitoring of Production Capacity Utilization in Frame

The Nutanix Frame® Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) provides a detailed scheduling capability to ensure that Frame accounts are able to deliver just-in-time production capacity while minimizing the additional cost of having idle cloud capacity.

Nutanix Frame Now Available in Azure Marketplace!

And now, we are excited to announce that we are providing even more flexibility by allowing customers to purchase their Frame subscription directly through the Azure® Marketplace!

How to Simplify Database Management Across Disparate Databases at Health & Human Services

Agencies are burdened with the complexity of managing the lifecycle of databases.

Bringing Joy to Millions - Build-A-Bear Accelerates and Amplifies Digital Transformation

Build-A-Bear was ahead of the game, already working on its recently launched Bear Builder 3D Workshop, an immersive online platform that allows consumers to shop online in an engaging and creative way, building on the known steps of its retail store process and then delivering the customized furry friend right to the front door.

The Future of EUC - Work From Anywhere

Nutanix Clusters on AWS - New Improvements to Hibernate & Resume Feature

An enhanced architecture now makes it faster and more cost efficient to hibernate and resume your Nutanix cluster on public clouds like AWS

Objects 3.3: Improved Efficiency and Time-To-Value

With the Nutanix Objects™ release v.3.3, we’re extending our capabilities to include a number of new features that allow customers to fully leverage cloud-native technologies while providing the flexibility of a multicloud deployment.

Nutanix Statements Regarding VMware Lawsuit

VMware has agreed to dismiss the lawsuit and we are very pleased that the matter has been favorably resolved.

High Five, Nutanix Named a Five-Time Leader in HCI

This week, Gartner, Inc. recognized Nutanix’s vision and execution with the 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software, designating Nutanix as a Leader for the fifth year in a row.

Celebrating Partners at Nutanix .NEXT 2021

Google Cloud and Nutanix Frame Partner to Offer Education Flat-Rate Bundles for Easy and Affordable Hybrid Learning Capabilities

Nutanix has partnered with Google Cloud to bring GCP flat-rate education bundles to U.S.-based educational institutions, helping to access and make use of hybrid cloud offerings in a budget-friendly way.

Nutanix Works with NVIDIA to Unify Accelerated Computing with Hyperconverged Infrastructure

In his GTC keynote, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the progress of the NVIDIA BlueField DPU to offload, accelerate, and isolate data center infrastructure. Nutanix is proud to collaborate with NVIDIA to drive innovation and unite accelerated computing with hyperconvergence in a unified platform.

.NEXT Top Sessions

The dust has settled from the Nutanix .NEXT 2021 Digital event and we are thrilled with the outcome! Attendees were able to immerse themselves in the latest hybrid multicloud advancements that will help them digitize and transform their businesses, improve activity, deliver innovative customer and employee experiences, and gain a competitive edge.

The power of mentorship to advance your career & enable others

This blog post features Kathryn Daugherty from our Commercial Sales team who is based in Los Angeles, California. She started at Nutanix in 2015 as a Sales Operations Intern before accepting a full time Sales role.

Nutanix Data Lens Drives Data Management and Security

It’s no secret that data growth is exploding – and predominantly in unstructured data.

Nutanix Unleashes Flow Networking to Streamline Hybrid Cloud Connectivity

Nutanix’s SDN journey chartered a new path in 2018 with SDN, launching Nutanix® Flow Security with Microsegmentation then quickly followed with a robust ID Based Firewall and Security Planning solution. These were the first pillars of our SDN vision.

What’s in the X?

Nutanix delivers higher business value in all phases of your IT operations. Nowadays, many companies are challenged with reducing spending while also preparing for future investments.

Enhancing the Security of Application Delivery in Frame

Nutanix’s Frame® desktop-as-a-service, with its ability to deliver virtual desktops and applications on non-persistent virtual machines, is a key part of the security posture of many customers.

Windows OS Optimization Essentials Part 3: Services & Scheduled Tasks

This blog series introduces you to Windows® Operating System (OS) optimizations, starting with version 1903.

Meet Yuto from Nutanix Product Support

As a part of our Life at Nutanix blog series, we profile some of our employees around the world to help you get a sense for our unique team and culture. In this blog post, we talk with Yuto Toguchi from our Support team based in Tokyo, Japan. Yuto talks with us about his role as a Senior Systems Reliability Engineer and how Nutanix strives to provide an excellent support experience for all our customers.

Saying Goodbye to Chris Kaddaras

Blog post regarding an update to the Nutanix leadership team update released on 10/4/2021.

Database-as-a-Service on your terms with Nutanix Era

Nutanix released its Era® database management software around 3 years ago bringing simplicity and automation to database management.

Rethinking Storage For A Data Centric World

We are excited to announce new capabilities in the Nutanix Unified Storage™ solution that empowers customers to simplify data management, accelerate time to value for data analytics workloads, manage exponential data growth, and protect their data against security risks.

Announcing Nutanix AOS 6

We are excited to announce a huge milestone for our pioneering HCI software, Nutanix® AOS and the release of Nutanix AOS 6 software.

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Nutanix and Microsoft Azure

Hybrid Cloud on Your Terms with Nutanix and Microsoft Azure. Learn about a new hybrid cloud platform to accelerate your Azure adoption.

6 .NEXT Breakout Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss!

.NEXT 2021 is just around the corner, and it’s time to build your agendas!.

AMD EPYC™ Processors are ideal for HCI - from Edge to Core

AMD has been working closely with our ecosystem partners in delivering fully tested and validated solutions that offer outstanding performance, scalability, and TCO.

5 Reasons NOT to Attend .NEXT 2021

For the second year in a row, .NEXT is going digital! And by now, you’ve probably heard all the reasons you should attend THE cloud conference of the year.

Integrating Frame with Splunk using Frame Admin API

The Nutanix Frame™ Platform records session and audit log information on what actions users and administrators are doing in the Frame Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS). This session and audit log information is available for download from the Frame Console.

Windows OS Optimization Essentials Part 2: Microsoft Store

Operating systems can end up being a lot of work for administrators. Work to configure the image, work to install the applications, and work to provide the best user experience possible. As with any software, what is provided to you is what the developer intended, but not necessarily what you want or need for your end users.

Cloud On Your Terms

There is some wisdom in compromise—in striking a balance between two equally important, albeit opposing, halves. And while that philosophy may ring true in everything from relationships to purchasing a new home, enterprises nowadays aren’t looking to just balance when it comes to their cloud architecture.

Citrix on Nutanix Blog series: Seven ways to simplify your digital workspace deployment - Blog 7

Welcome to the seventh and final installment of our Seven Ways to Simplify Your Digital Workspace Deployment blog series. In this blog, we are going to look at how to simplify business continuity and hybrid cloud.

Seizing opportunities to forge your career path

Meet Nevena! She joined Nutanix in 2018 as a Recruiter where she helped expand our technical team in Serbia and across EMEA.

Nutanix Products Tested and Selected for Inclusion on Dept of Defense Information Network (DoDIN) Approved Products Lists

Nutanix is pleased to announce that Nutanix® AOS, AHV, and Files products have been certified for placement on the Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL).

Nutanix and Stratodesk Enabling Hybrid Work

By partnering with industry leaders Nutanix and Stratodesk, will allow enterprise IT, employers and employees to reap the many rewards of hybrid work.

Gartner scores Nutanix Enterprise Cloud on the solution criteria for HCI

This report scores Nutanix based on criteria for HCI solutions. Nutanix continues to build its HCI stack, extend capabilities to Hybrid Multi-cloud, and grow and extend its partnerships in enterprise data centers with HPE Greenlake® and in Cloud Native and container capabilities with Red Hat OpenShift®, Google Anthos™, and Microsoft ARC™ solutions.

Nutanix Launches Support for Next Generation of Platforms for Hybrid Cloud Deployments

New hardware platform architecture improves on-premises application performance, capacity, and density.

Nutanix Certification Recognized as one of the 15 Top-Paying Certifications

People have many reasons for getting technical certifications. It can be a stepping stone to a new job. It can be a way to show off what you've learned over the years. And some people collect them to prove their professional expertise across a variety of technologies.

Provisions for Technology Modernization in: CARES, CRRSA and American Rescue Plan

According to the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC)’s website, Government agencies and education institutions have about $5 trillion in federal government funds to use with the CARES Act and other related pandemic relief legislation.

Meet Raymond from Territory Sales

This blog post features Raymond Teh from our Sales team. Raymond joined Nutanix in August 2019 and currently leads our Territory Sales team based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Internships that lead to great things

Deerian Valenzuela joined Nutanix in 2018 as an Intern in the Sales Operations group. Today Deerian works as a Sales Operations Analyst in our Global Deal Solutions/Desk based in San Jose at Nutanix headquarters.

Can we make databases “invisible”?

Nutanix Era’s unified one-click approach streamlines complex database tasks, making them delightfully simple—and therefore “invisible.”

Application Migration Considerations for Hybrid Multiclouds

If your organization has a public cloud-first strategy or is considering augmenting on-premises infrastructure with public clouds to create a hybrid multicloud solution, then you are likely trying to establish a simple and efficient application migration plan for your enterprise workloads.

Simplifying Reporting, Analysis, and Issue Remediation

Welcome to the fifth installment of our Seven Ways to Simplify Your Digital Workspace Deployment in 2021 blog series. In this blog we are going to look at how to simplify reporting, analysis, and issue remediation.

Marty Filipowski Volunteers for Lifesaving Research

Marty is based in Sydney, Australia and collaborates with team members across Nutanix to help create awareness for the company’s leadership in private, hybrid, and multicloud computing.

The Healthcare Quadruple Aim and IT Automation

Healthcare IT (HIT) continues to accelerate innovation with an eye on the Quadruple Aim: Improved Patient Experience, Lower Costs, Better Health Outcomes, and Improved Clinician Experience.

Nutanix Support and Beyond

Instead of making the customer understand how minor the issue was, I understood that the customer was stuck with something personal and professional that was a huge block for him, hence the priority here was to acknowledge his problem and help him resolve it quickly and easily.

Seven ways to simplify your digital workspace deployment - Blog 3

A digital workspace requires an enterprise-class hypervisor and a highly performant system for hosting user data. No less important, however, they should be built in and so easy to use that they are practically invisible.

New capabilities in Nutanix Insights for proactive management of your infrastructure

It’s been a little over a year since we launched the Nutanix Insights™ service and we’re always looking to improve. Based on customer feedback, we’ve released new capabilities that make Insights even easier and more useful than ever before.

Nutanix Frame and ZScaler Private Access (ZPA)

Nutanix Frame™ Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution supports multiple networking models. One of the more popular networking models for enterprises is the Frame Private networking model. This model allows the Frame workload VMs to have private IP addresses on the enterprise private network and access private networking resources and it is the simplest way to inherit existing network security processes.

What’s in the X?

Be the #1 Priority - Nutanix Technical Experts Ready to Support You

Liquidware ProfileUnity & Nutanix Frame

The following blog is one of a series of blogs that will discuss the integration of third-party User Environment management solutions. This blog will focus on Liquidware ProfileUnity™ profile manager with a Nutanix Frame Desktop as a Service (DaaS) deployment.

Nutanix Mine Now Available With Commvault

Today, we are proud to announce the availability of Nutanix Mine™ with Commvault®. Nutanix and Commvault have had a longstanding partnership over the last six years. Commvault was the first partner to provide data protection as a simple, secure, and transformative reality for our joint customers.

Red Hat and Nutanix Partner to Deliver Big On Hybrid Cloud

Strategic alliance between industry leaders is a boon for enterprise customers’ cloud journeys

Trekking through IT's Automation Transformation

To cut through the ubiquitous noise of automation hype, let’s briefly talk at a high-level about the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure industry’s automation journey and provide applicable guidance regardless of where you may be along your unique journey.

Pride 2021 at Nutanix

June marked Pride Month, a month where the LGBTQ+ community amplifies and spotlights the celebration of being ourselves. Whether our employees see themselves as queer questioning, cis, trans, nonbinary, asexual, gay, lesbian, and pansexual—they’re a welcome part of our Qutant employee group community at Nutanix. As are our great allies.

Provision Databases Easier with Nutanix Era & ServiceNow

Provisioning new databases and cloning database requests make up a hefty portion of a database administrator’s (DBAs) workload. As reported in Forrester’s Total Economic Impact survey for Nutanix Era, database provisioning is time consuming, tedious, and often requires additional approvals for new systems to support the new provision.

Customer Voice: Meet Austin Energy

Windows OS Optimization Essentials Part 2: Microsoft Store

Operating systems can end up being a lot of work for administrators. They need to work to configure the image, install the applications, and provide the best user experience possible. As with any software, what is provided to you is what the developer intended, but not necessarily what you want or need for your end users.

Nutanix Xi Leap DRaaS: Standing the Test of Time

Xi Leap is a natively integrated DR Service that serves as a seamless extension to the onprem infrastructure - thus providing a true hybrid cloud experience.

Role-based Access Control and User Authorization in Nutanix Frame

In this blog, we’ll explain how RBAC works in Frame and discuss the best practices for using third-party SAML2 identity providers and authorization rules to implement RBAC.

Well Architected DRaaS Solutions

Cost, complexity, and lack of expertise remain the primary culprits in determining the right solution for the business, but IT organizations must keep calm and DR on.

Nutanix HCI is Now Certified to Run Azure Arc Data Services

Nutanix and Microsoft’s Hybrid Cloud Partnership Adds Azure Arc-enabled Data Services To A Feature-Rich hybrid cloud Kubernetes Stack.

Bring Your Own Azure Network to Frame

As enterprises continue to expand their IT footprint into the public clouds, extending existing private networking infrastructure into the public cloud has become more critical. To address the flexibility that this requires, Nutanix has added a Bring Your Own (BYO) Networking feature to its Frame™ Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution.

How to Simplify Digital Workspace Security

Citrix Cloud services, including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop service, Citrix Secure Browser service, and Citrix Gateway service, remove the complexity of managing your virtual workspaces, while giving you the tools you need to provide your end users with secure remote access.

Nutanix Partner Virtual Town Hall: Building Tomorrow’s Workspaces

With the rapid expansion of work-from-anywhere and virtual desktop environments over the past year, a solid cloud strategy has never been more important. Helping our customers build their cloud strategy wouldn’t be possible without the expertise and support of our partners and technology alliances.

Leading the Market in Innovation and Beyond: A New Way to Evaluate HCI Market Share

The hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market has been on a fast journey over the past few years. Starting as a hardware-centric market focused on the simplicity of procuring datacenter hardware and software in one fell swoop, it quickly shifted as software-centric technology vendors and customers alike realized the biggest value一and innovation一was in the software.

Wipro Enhances AppAnywhere with Nutanix HCI and Nutanix Karbon

Wipro and Nutanix have collaborated to offer a number of advanced enterprise services, including Wipro Digital Database Platform Services™ (DDPS) and Wipro VirtuaDesk™.

Nutanix Mine Now Available With Commvault

Today, we are proud to announce the availability of Nutanix Mine™ with Commvault®. Nutanix and Commvault have had a longstanding partnership over the last six years. Commvault was the first partner to provide data protection as a simple, secure, and transformative reality for our joint customers.

What’s in the X?

Simplicity. Modernizing your company’s cloud is easier than you think.

NEW! Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture V3

I am pleased to announce the latest version (version 3) of the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture tech note is now available for download. The Nutanix® Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture is a comprehensive document that is meant for an organization’s Enterprise Architect team.

HPE GreenLake with Nutanix Era for Databases: Delivering Your Most Demanding Workloads, as a Service.

With HPE GreenLake, Nutanix customers gain even more operational and financial flexibility. HPE brings the cloud experience to your data center, and provides the computing infrastructure to run applications and store data in a metered, pay-per-use, as a service model.

Service Providers and The Stack Wars: Trust and Competence

Service providers, especially managed and cloud service providers, are under tremendous pressure to increase both their top and bottom line. For some, it will become an existential crisis of Stack Wars: squeezing from above are cloud giants like AWS, Azure, and GCP and from below are the increasing costs and complexities of keeping the lights on with traditional platforms, portfolios, and service provider programs.

Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure Recognized As A “Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice” 3 Years in a Row

IT organizations have long aspired to bring public cloud-like operational simplicity and consumption models into their datacenters. This is often a critical consideration when embracing the public cloud.

GigaOm Shines Spotlight on Nutanix Objects

GigaOm, a leading analyst firm recognizes Nutanix Objects as an Outperformer in its radar, for Enterprise Object Storage and additionally, a Fast Mover in High-Performance Object Storage.

How to Create On-Demand Elasticity for Changing Resource Needs: Bursting Workloads into Public Clouds

Bursting into the public cloud should not become its own project. There are a few challenges businesses encounter with cloud migration and management. However, one of the biggest challenges is not being able to manage unified hybrid cloud or multicloud operations

Chat, Learn, Win - Join us at SAP® SAPPHIRE NOW

Chat, Learn, & Win - Join us at SAP® SAPPHIRE NOW Multiple Opportunities to Connect at Global Virtual Events

Best Practices for Protecting Your Digital Campus

With cybersecurity attacks on the rise, higher education institutions are increasingly vulnerable to ransomware and other malicious attacks.

Automated Deployment of a Streaming Gateway Appliance (SGA) with Frame Networking in AWS

In my previous blog, I outlined how the Nutanix Frame™ Bring Your Own (BYO) Networking capability in Amazon Web Services (AWS) could be used to deploy a Frame account in a manner that would allow it to be connected to an existing private network.

Application Mobility Across Cloud Is No Longer a Pipedream

Hybrid and Multicloud Use Case Series

Windows OS Optimization Essentials Part 1: Active Setup

This blog series introduces you to Microsoft Windows® Operating System (OS) optimizations, starting with version 1903. I will attempt to keep these optimizations as environment agnostic as possible.

Top 5 DaaS Mistakes and How to Avoid Them — Part 3 of 5: Data Locality

In this blog post, we discuss the concept of data locality--what it is, why it’s important, and how to avoid mistakes regarding it as it relates to designing, and implementing your DaaS environment.

Meet Victor: A look inside Xi Leap and Nutanix Seattle

Victor Bahna joined Nutanix in 2018, bringing with him 20+ years of experience leading teams across the cloud and IT space.

Understanding as the Key to Honoring Diverse Abilities

The People First Alliance (PFA) is an employee-led LIFE Group at Nutanix that promotes the awareness, acceptance, community, and accessibility of neurodiverse people. .

Love, Honesty, and Appreciation for Nutanix Disaster Recovery

A Candid chat with WD-40’s own Jeff Longley.

Nutanix at ServiceNow Knowledge 2021 Conference

We are excited to be Sponsors at the ServiceNow® digital conference Knowledge 2021 on May 11-20 to share with customers of ServiceNow and Nutanix why this integration matters and how they can best leverage it..

Meet Soojin from Enterprise Sales

This blog post features Soojin Kim from our sales team in Korea. Soojin joined Nutanix in June 2016 and is currently an Enterprise Sales Representative based in Busan, Korea.

Nutanix Clusters: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure now available on AWS GovCloud (US)

FedRAMP Authorized Nutanix Government Cloud Services helps to Enable U.S. Public Sector to Get to a Hybrid Cloud Environment.

Building a Frame Web Application: Putting API calls together

You’re going to use a Python feature called the REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop) to explore API calls. The REPL is a program that helps you explore Python commands and data structures interactively.

Data Analytics & Cybersecurity Trends, Threats & Tales From The Cyber Crypt

While many businesses were happy to just survive the pandemic, lockdowns, and shutdowns, the advanced persistent threat actors never stopped their attacks to gain access to trade and state secrets.

How to Simplify Centralized Image Management in Nutanix Frame with Microsoft Application Masking

With Application Masking, you can install all the applications into a single Frame™ sandbox and then provide access to these applications based on conditions such as group membership and many other options.

Autism Awareness: A Father & Son's Journey

People First Alliance, our LIFE Group (employee resource group) that celebrates neurodiversity helped organize a series of activities to help Nutanix employees understand neurodiversity and what inclusion looks like at work.

How to Simplify Digital Workspace Server & Storage Resource Management

A Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on Nutanix Hybrid Cloud solution delivers excellent user experience, improved productivity, greater business agility, lower risk, and higher ROI.

5 Things You’ll Learn from the Nutanix Economic Advantage Summit

Top 5 takeaways from the Summit.

Windows User Profiles in a Frame world

Check out this blog to learn the foundation of Windows user profiles, the pros and cons of different profile solutions, and how to leverage them with Nutanix Frame to deliver the best user experience.

Building a Frame Web Application: Making your first API call

There are contexts in which managing your Frame account by hand isn’t enough. Sometimes you need a deeper integration to seamlessly manage all of your services. That’s where Frame APIs come in.

Spring Forward: Time to Refresh and Renew Your Database Strategy

The Nutanix hybrid cloud solutions allow you to leverage the advantages of both public cloud and on-premises deployments--flexibility and agility, as well as security, compliance and control.

Meeting the Needs of Your Remote Workforce with Ease

Lenovo and Nutanix Deliver a Complete Hosted Desktop Environment for One Monthly Charge

Meet Vasilina from Channel Sales

I was lucky enough to interview Vasilina Vasileva from our team in Russia about her career journey, her time at Nutanix, how she is dealing with the pandemic, and more.

Giving back in the midst of COVID-19

We’ve all been impacted by COVID, some more than others, and today, we’d like to share the bias for action of one employee of many who is helping to fight COVID-19.

Announcing Calm SaaS General Availability

Nutanix® Calm is an application orchestration solution that our customers use to deliver infrastructure and applications to their end business units.

Nutanix Frame and GPU: Options, Tools, and Best Practices.

This weighty blog describes the use-cases and GPU options for Frame in public clouds and on-premises. It also presents how to right-size the GPU-powered workload VMs, the tools to use, and the common mistakes to avoid when using GPUs with Frame.

Experts Agree: The Nutanix Software Platform is a Great Option for Retail PCI Workloads

Nutanix, Inc. is pleased to report that Coalfire Systems, Inc. (Coalfire), a Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) company, has conducted an independent technical assessment of the core components of the software based Nutanix® Cloud Platform.

Seven Ways to Simplify Your Digital Workspace Deployment

Digital workspaces are not a new idea, but too often deployment and operational complexity have kept organizations from realizing the benefits these solutions offer. Fortunately, there are solutions that can help significantly reduce this complexity.

5 Reasons Why Nutanix Delivers the Best Hybrid and Multicloud Platform

See why we believe Nutanix Clusters offers the fastest and best path to a hybrid and multicloud environment

Nutanix and AMD Break the User Density Bottleneck

The focus shifts to meeting business requirements, where it should be

Recognizing World Health Day 2021

Technology's Mission to Enable the Future of Well-being for Individuals and Communities.

From Tony Stark to Iron Man: How EUC is Building Tomorrow's Workspace Today

Nutanix EUC Vision Keynote

Top 5 DaaS Mistakes and How to Avoid Them — Part 2 of 5: Single User vs. Multi-User

While customers would love nothing more than to consume virtual apps and desktops as a commodity service, the truth is that even in 2021, there are a number of design considerations that will ultimately determine whether your DaaS implementation will be successful or not.

Supporting Xi Frame on a Nutanix AHV Cluster: Time Configuration

This blog addresses the importance of time setup for an AHV-based Nutanix cluster supporting an on-prem Xi Frame deployment.

Bring Your Own AWS Network to Frame

Nutanix has added a Bring Your Own (BYO) Networking feature to its Frame® Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. In this blog, I walk you through how a test environment could be set up in an AWS® infrastructure to familiarize a Frame administrator with how this feature works.

Bring Your Own AWS Network to Xi Frame

Nutanix has added a Bring Your Own (BYO) Networking feature to its Xi Frame® Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. In this blog, I walk you through how a test environment could be set up in an AWS® infrastructure to familiarize a Xi Frame administrator with how this feature works.

Telehealth to flourish in post-COVID recovery era

Leah Gabbert, Senior Marketing Manager, Healthcare, Nutanix, examines some of the key trends, drivers, multipliers, and outliers that are shaping the future prognosis for healthcare IT around the world.

VMware ESXi hypervisor on Nutanix certified for SAP HANA

Over the years Nutanix has established a track record of innovation when it comes to SAP SE and SAP HANA® database certification and support - resulting in our current on-premises cloud solution that supports a whole range of SAP applications.

Can Your DaaS Solution Do This? 10 Demos Showing Frame in Action

One of the top sessions at Nutanix EUC Tech Summit, the zero-fluff event designed by and for EUC geeks and visionaries, was the “EUC Demo-only Party.”

Nutanix Multicloud Cost Management Service Receives SOC Attestations

For the second year, the Nutanix® Xi Beam® multicloud cost management service received a SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2, and SOCT 3 Systems and Organization Controls (SOC) attestations.

PACS on Nutanix: Our Journey Continues!

GE Centricity PACS and Centricity Clinical Archive Updates

The Future Prognosis For Healthtech

The world is changing and, in no small part due to the fallout effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare technology specifically is expanding on an exponential growth path.

Meet Tetsuo: Life at Nutanix in Japan

This blog post features Tetsuo Miyoshi from our team in Japan. Tetsuo is a Product Marketing Manager based in Yokohama City, Japan.

Sales and Soft Skills: This is the Way

How can one remain relevant in IT and maintain a long, prosperous career? Do you chase the latest tech trends and up-level your technical expertise accordingly? Or do you dive deeper into your current area of expertise?

The Job’s Not Finished. Our Journey to Partner Success

Working with Medallia, the pioneer and market leader in Experience Management, Nutanix recently completed our first global Partner Net Promoter Score (NPS).

How To Ransomware Proof your Backups

Organizations worldwide are in the midst of a massive wave of cybersecurity threats. Gartner reported that “ransomware families have grown by more than 700% in the last few years.

Introducing Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes Clusters On Nutanix

Nutanix and Microsoft Partner To Give Customers Simple, Flexible Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes

Advancing Genomics Medicine with Cloud Infrastructure

The combined power of computing technology, data storage, and gene sequencing will shape the future of personalized medicine.

Top 5 DaaS Mistakes and How to Avoid Them — Part 1 of 5: Sizing Workload VMs

The purpose of this five-part blog series is to help you identify and (more importantly) avoid the mistakes that others have made when it comes to implementing a DaaS solution!

Meet Sharmin: A first time working mother on her return to work

In this blog post, we talk with Sharmin Ansari, a Customer Success Representative on our sales team based in Bangalore, India.

Education has Changed. Nutanix Frame Helps Schools and Students to continue Learning amid uncertainties.

Nutanix Frame is an innovative, multicloud Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution that addresses digital learning challenges, allowing your students and faculty to access critical applications on any device from any location from a standard web browser.

Public Sector Gets Smart on Cloud Adoption

To learn more about the evolving impacts of cloud migrations across a global IT landscape, Nutanix has commissioned annual surveys through VansonBourne to create the Enterprise Cloud Index.

Leveraging Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure to Accelerate Vaccine Development

In the race to rapidly develop an effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the global COVID-19 pandemic that swept through 2020, an assembly of unique proficiencies needed to converge with incredible timing.

Accelerating Private Clouds with NVIDIA GPUs on Nutanix AHV

Announcing advanced GPU technologies to boost your VDI, HPC and AI applications

Accelerating Private Clouds with NVIDIA GPUs on Nutanix AHV

Announcing advanced GPU technologies to boost your VDI, HPC and AI applications

Nutanix Enhances Life Cycle Management for Streamlined ITOps

Improved Infrastructure Upgrade Performance with Redfish Integration and Formal LCM APIs

8 IT Predictions for 2021

Prepare yourself for a cliché. 2020 was the year of unprecedented times—and I think it’s safe to say we’re tired of unpredictability. So, let’s set the stage for the year with dozens of IT predictions straight from our customers’ mouths.

GPUs are Becoming Critical for VDI Success: We’ve Got Numbers

With thousands of employees across the globe suddenly working from home, IT teams have turned to VDI to deliver a great user experience that doesn’t sacrifice security.

New Frame App Expands DaaS Use Cases

Frame App for Windows and MacOS is now generally available (GA) with version 5.2+!

Use Your Nutanix Healthcare IT Super Powers to Enable Telehealth and Fight Cybercrime

Top 21 IT Reads for 2021

Nutanix Objects SEC-17a Assessment

Nutanix Objects completes SEC-17a-4(f), FINRA rule 4511(c) and CFTC Rule 1.31(c)-(d) assessment

Nutanix Named Among Fortune 40 Best Workplaces in the Bay Area 2021

We are thrilled to share that Nutanix was ranked number 35 in the 2021 Best Workplaces in the Bay Area list by Great Place to Work® and Fortune.

5 Easy Steps to Setting up and Managing Cloud-ready Infrastructure

Hybrid cloud infrastructure provides you with the best of each cloud infrastructure: the agility, flexibility, and scalability that public clouds provide and the control and governance that a private cloud ensures.

Nutanix HCI Now Runs Google Anthos

Nutanix is excited to announce its newest partnership with Google: GKE customers can now run Anthos on Nutanix.

Nutanix, Allyship and Intersectionality

After getting our LIFE Groups off the ground, what came next? The concept of Allyship. We realized that allyship is a fundamental piece of building a stronger, more authentic, and more empathetic Nutanix.

Cybersecurity is a C-Suite Issue--Take the Nutanix Executive Cybersecurity Masterclass

Nutanix is proud to have worked with hundreds of c-level and senior business executives in addressing their most pressing IT and business challenges, including those related to Cybersecurity.

EUC Tech Summit: Full Interviews with EUC Leaders Shawn Bass, Christian Reilly, and Nikola Bozinovic

Nutanix EUC Tech Summit, the zero-fluff event designed by and for EUC geeks and visionaries, was a huge success. Thousands of viewers tuned in for keynotes, breakouts, and demos from 17 speakers working on the cutting edge of EUC.

Top 20 Highlights of 2020 for Nutanix Partners

2020 has been a year like no other, filled with significant personal and economic impact for all of our Nutanix customers, partners, and employees. But 2020 was also notable for significant milestones that signaled our strengthening support for our partners.

Top 10 Reasons to Run Epic on Nutanix

Nutanix provides an overwhelming value that compels Epic customers to lean-in to innovation and away from concerns.

Introducing AOS 5.19: Increased Performance, Enhanced Security, and Automated Operations

Secure Remote Work, Accelerate Workloads, and Enable Self-Driving Infrastructure with Nutanix HCI

Meet Mitali from our Inside Systems Engineering Team

In our second blog we’re showcasing Mitali Guruchal from our team in Sydney, Australia.

Hispanic Heritage Month 2020

Our LatinX employees celebrated across the world with loved ones and shared photos of their ofrendas in our LatinX Slack channel community.

Eliminate Your VPN Access to Frame

The new Frame Streaming Gateway Appliance (SGA) is a reverse proxy solution that removes the need for a VPN.

Finding Economic Advantage to Navigate Current and Future IT Demands

For IT, the Edge is Becoming the New Center: New Nutanix Options Have You Covered

IT is fielding ever more calls for resources at the edge, everything from more intelligence, to more compute, data collection and storage, as well as faster decision-making.

What It Takes to Succeed with Virtualization Management and AIOps

This blog and customer quotes cover features and user experience with Prism Pro and Ultimate.

NEXT Magazine Issue 8 Quick Guide

Issue 8 of the magazine is fresh off the press and it’s filled with amazing stories: the concept of fostering “intrapreneurship” with Lego; STEM students striving for a better world; Headbands of Hope pivoting in times of hardship; and when “business as usual” isn’t...and many more stories.

Proud to Be Palo Alto Networks Global Technology Partner of the Year

Nutanix was awarded the Palo Alto Networks Global Technology Partner of the Year during the Palo Alto Networks Partner Summit at the Ignite '20 Cybersecurity Conference.

Meet Ximena Castillo: From traveling the world to Senior Deal Desk Analyst

This is the first of a blog series where we’ll be showcasing some of the unique and talented people from our team. You can follow the “Life at Nutanix” tag to learn more about our team, culture, and daily life at Nutanix.

Security Paradigm Changes and What’s New with Nutanix Flow

As IT is at the forefront of how modern businesses operate and even differentiate themselves, it should be no surprise that those that seek to disrupt, steal, or profit from malicious activity are also improving and changing their technology and approach.

Nutanix Leads Gartner's HCI Magic Quadrant With Support for Hybrid Cloud

Gartner redefined the HCI MQ to include software only solutions. Learn why HCI software matters for utilizing hybrid cloud and how Nutanix is leading the way.

Why Telehealth is Here to Stay and How it Improves Healthcare Quality

Nutanix is the right technology partner to help ensure you reap the benefits of telehealth for the communities that you serve, all while helping to meet healthcare regulations and stave off ransomware attacks on critical patient and financial data.

An Open Letter to Our Customers and Partners

As its new CEO, I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself, share how excited I am to be joining Nutanix.

Healthcare IT and the Cloud: Charting a Path Towards Technology Transformation

The future of healthcare requires embracing technology—including cloud technologies—to secure, organize, and protect patient data.

Nutanix Debuts as a Strong Performer in Forrester’s Hybrid Cloud Management Wave

Nutanix delighted to be a strong performer in our first year participating in The Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management, Q4 2020.

Frame Networking Solutions in the Public Cloud

A multipart blog series on how to provide a secure work environment for your Nutanix Frame users

Using the Nutanix Frame Admin API to schedule Elasticity Settings

Cloud-based infrastructure has empowered IT managers with the ability to provide their users with virtually unlimited on-demand compute and storage resources from datacenters across the world.

DARE to Encrypt!

Hackers have countless tricks for getting their hands on your confidential data. Make sure that if they reach the prize, there’s nothing they can do with it.

Why End User Computing is Exciting!

A personal story and ten reasons to attend a great EUC event!

Third Annual ECI Report: How the Pandemic Raised IT’s Profile and Paved a Clearer Pathway to Hybrid Cloud

Today, we announced the findings from our third annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, measuring enterprise progress with the adoption of private, hybrid, and public clouds.

Cloud Doesn’t Fix Your Dev/Test Challenges? You Need Intelligent Test Environment Management

Smart IT teams are discovering that a multicloud approach—combining on-prem and public cloud infrastructure with advanced automation—delivers greater agility while helping control costs.

Securing EUC for Protection from Ransomware and Malware

End User Computing (EUC)—including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS)— helps improve WFH security by eliminating the need to store critical data on endpoint devices that can be easily lost, stolen, or compromised.

Bridge between Clouds for Nutanix Partners

Some of the most beautiful destinations in the world can often also be the most remote. For example – the Florida Keys were transformed over time by 42 bridges, connecting an 113-mile chain of islands to allow us access to a tropical wonderland.

Celebrating 5 Years of Lenovo And Nutanix Success with Our 2000+ Customers

Wood is a traditional five-year anniversary gift, symbolizing the durability of a relationship. That seems appropriate now, given next month Lenovo and Nutanix will celebrate our fifth consecutive year of working together since the inception of our partnership in November 2015.

IT Cost Optimization | Preparing the Enterprise for Uncertainty

Getting ahead of IT costs means enabling maximum flexibility in your resource consumption. Here’s how the right technology foundation can facilitate proactive IT cost optimization.

Spooky, Scary Skeletons...in the Datacenter!

We asked our Xtribe participants to come up with the spookiest stories they could think of, and we’ve compiled our favorites here.

UX with Frame including WAN and mobile scenarios explained!

How can you use Nutanix Frame, our desktop as a service solution, to both deliver a great user experience and lower costs?

Tips for interviewing with Nutanix

We are humbled that you are considering Nutanix for your next career move. Here are a few pointers crowdsourced from our talent acquisition team to help set you up for success as you prepare for your interview.

10 Reasons Why Nutanix is the Best Platform for Citrix

Nutanix provides a better user experience than a SAN because it does not access the servers over the storage network. Instead, Nutanix data locality puts the data right next to the compute, enabling linear user experience even as clusters scale.

Nutanix reaches a new milestone in HCI history with AOS 5.18

The AOS 5.18 release marks an advance in the history of hyperconverged infrastructure, with new features that capitalize on an innovative distributed architecture that enables HCI customers to elevate application performance while further simplifying and automating IT operations.

FleX Enables Hardware Partners to Easily Validate Their Offerings with Nutanix

How Nutanix is able to run on so many platforms, both on-premises and in the public cloud

Stratodesk NoTouch is officially AHV ready for Nutanix Frame

Why is being Nutanix Ready a big deal? The reason is this: being Nutanix Ready shows that a solution is trusted to enhance the Nutanix delivery infrastructure.

Manage Infrastructure Cost and Monitor Applications with Prism

In addition to the functionality currently included in Prism’s Pro tier, Prism Ultimate adds application insights for targeted troubleshooting of application-related infrastructure bottlenecks.

3 Beers with Engineers Chats to Watch Now

Beers with Engineers (BWE) is an ongoing series featuring casual, just-for-fun chats with Nutanix engineers. Think of it like a 5-minute speed date with an engineer! Topics range from Vegas to football to trains and beyond—there’s something for everyone.

Bursting 2,000 Citrix Desktops to AWS in Under 2 Hours with Nutanix Clusters

With today’s distributed workforce it’s imperative that you have the ability to quickly enable your workforce to be productive working from anywhere, with secure remote access to applications, desktops, and data.

Telco sector must modernize to thrive in fourth industrial revolution

A new era of change in telecoms requires a new technology estate to benefit the customer and reduce costs.

End the legacy of three tier architecture

Three-tier enterprise cloud computing platforms are not fit for purpose in the modern telecommunications business. As telcos roll out 5G connectivity, there will be an increased burden on the enterprise technology infrastructure.

Citrix Cloud on the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Platform Delivers Choice, Simplicity and Performance

Nutanix and Citrix have partnered to provide enterprises the operational flexibility they need across private or public infrastructure to support a distributed workforce, delivering secure and responsive access to applications, desktops, and data on any device, anywhere, and at any scale.

Introducing A New Era in Database Management

We're excited to announce the launch of Era 2.0! This recent evolution of Era expands on the core vision of a unified database operating model while delivering simplicity, performance, availability, and security across private and public clouds.

Nutanix Xi Frame Achieves AWS Digital Workplace Competency Status

As an AWS Partner Network (APN) Technology Partner since 2014 we’re proud to be one of the first APN partners to achieve this newly unveiled AWS Competency.

Hybrid Cloud is the Key to Business Agility

To better understand the key challenges and opportunities businesses face with hybrid cloud adoption, we decided to dig deeper in a new Hybrid Cloud Report surveying IT decision makers globally.

Turbocharged Xi Leap 2.0: Zero to Recovery in Under an Hour With 5 Minute RPO

With a souped-up Xi Leap, customers will meet or exceed their business continuity metrics at a reduced total cost of ownership of up to 50%. Happy auditors and business managers mean fewer headaches and more weekends free for IT practitioners.

Introducing CCA 3.0

Earlier this month, we took a big leap forward with the release of the Frame Cloud Connector Appliance (CCA) version 3.0

Dell EMC XC powered by Nutanix is Thriving!

It’s no secret that Dell and Nutanix have been partnering since 2013, but did you know that over 47,000 XC appliances have been delivered to more than 2,500 customers globally?

Nutanix, HYCU and Integrated Data Protection in the New Normal

In the world of IT, it can be one of the scariest words and in some situations painful. But, when change is embraced properly, it can also be the most rewarding.

Reshaping Digital Infrastructure in the Healthcare New Normal

Healthcare organizations should leverage new opportunities for infrastructure modernization, exploring cloud technologies to extend the reach and performance of their on-premises capabilities.

Building the Channel of Tomorrow: .NEXT Recap

Last week, we unveiled how we are simplifying our disparate channel, distributor, technology alliance, service provider, and systems integrator programs into one program architecture called Elevate.

From Reducing RPO Times to All Things Kubernetes: An IT Podcast Just for You

You may have previously kept your podcast listening confined to morning and evening commute hours in the car or on public transportation, but as we’ve progressed through pandemic times, podcast listenership that had initially slumped is on the rise again.

Diversity and Inclusion at Nutanix: Where we’ve been, where we’re headed

While we move ahead in making Nutanix a fantastic place to work for all of our employees, I know simultaneously that we still have a long way to go on our journey.

See Palo Alto Networks Virtual Next Generation Firewall in Action at .NEXT

We hope you’ll join us at Nutanix .NEXT to learn more about how to achieve consistent management of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud security postures with industry leading security controls from Palo Alto Networks.

HPE and Nutanix – Celebrating One Year of Partnership

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is excited to be a Diamond sponsor of the 2020 Global .NEXT Digital Experience.

Why the Fujitsu-Nutanix partnership is a digital transformation accelerator for customers

The Fujitsu-Nutanix partnership accelerates digital transformation because customers get everything they need to optimally exploit the potential of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) – for example, market-leading HCI software, vast experience in integrated system design, and PRIMERGY systems equipped with the latest Intel® Xeon® technology.

Intel and Nutanix – Taking storage and memory to new heights

Intel has been part of the Nutanix journey since the beginning. We are collaborating closely to drive the next generation of cloud innovation.

Introducing Advanced Networking with Nutanix Flow

We hope you’ll join us at Nutanix .NEXT to learn more about how to achieve consistent management of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud security postures with industry leading security controls from Palo Alto Networks.

Generational AOS Advancements Accelerate HCI Performance

The backbone of AOS is its web-scale architecture built from the ground up with key tenets unique to Nutanix. Nutanix delivers superior performance with data locality, ensuring that data remains close to the application.

Why You Need Azure Hybrid Cloud Solutions by Nutanix and Microsoft

Microsoft and Nutanix have partnered to bring users a seamless hybrid cloud solution. Learn how it works between private clouds and Azure and why you need it.

Announcing Early Access to Xi Calm

Xi Calm expands access to Calm features to customers who don't have Nutanix AOS. Xi Calm is a ready to use, fully managed offering, without the need to create, install, and manage any private cloud HCI software.

Veeam + Nutanix = Better Together

It has been a busy year for the partnership between Nutanix and Veeam: a lot of new offerings and ways to protect your data with a simple, flexible, and reliable approach.

One Place for your Security Planning, Operations, and Compliance for Nutanix

Nutanix announced Security Central, a centralized SaaS-based management plane delivering compliance monitoring, network visibility, and security operations across both Nutanix-powered private clouds and public cloud environments.

How a Financial Services Hybrid Cloud-First Strategy will Enable Digital Enterprises

Nutanix along with one of its regional value-added distributors StarLink, recently hosted an exclusive webinar titled, “Financial Services Transformation: Architecting the Digital Enterprise.”

IT Infrastructure Tips for Navigating the New Normal

In many cases, organizations have had to adapt to the sudden reality of thousands and thousands of employees working remotely. Given this surge in remote work, there has been increased pressure to ensure employees have secure access to business applications and critical data.

Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Right? Not without Strong Data Management!

Data management is the foundational discipline for ongoing operations with state government. Data and information assets are essential to virtually every operation and every decision within state government.

The Key to Accelerating Innovation in the Public Sector

Year after year, agencies develop plans to dramatically reduce traditional datacenter use in favor of hybrid cloud and multicloud deployments, but these plans have yet to come to full fruition.

Meet our .NEXT Global Customer Award Finalists!

This award recognizes a senior executive who has demonstrated excellence in technology leadership through innovation in the datacenter.

Lenovo launches ThinkAgile HX Data Protection Solution with Mine and Veeam

Infrastructure and Application Modernization has been the top priority for organizations that need to keep up with the changing business landscape and maintain a competitive edge.

Keep Business Calm, Digitally Transform On

Change constantly forces businesses to evolve in order to survive. It also serves as a great forcing function for IT organizations as they empower their business.

Customer Centricity is data enabled

For the first time, all areas of the telecoms business can coalesce around examining business issues and customer insights.

Your Mission: Make Virtualization Invisible with Nutanix AHV

Today we’re announcing new content that makes it even easier to learn, set up, configure, and rapidly enjoy AHV and Prism on top of our award-winning HCI platform. We’re pleased to introduce AHV Mission Control.

Forrester TEI: Running EUC on Nutanix Nets 164% ROI over 3 Years and a Sub-6 Month Payback Period

Nutanix recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ study of the value that Nutanix customers experienced by running their EUC solutions on Nutanix.

Expanding Nutanix and HCI Uses and Value for SAP – Certification for Scale-out SAP HANA

With over 16,000 customers and 10 years of putting hyperconverged infrastructure-based solutions to work on different applications, databases, and other workloads, Nutanix has proven the value of this infrastructure approach, but SAP data warehousing teams haven’t had a chance to experience it—until now.

Unlocking Grant Funding for R1 and R2 Research Universities

University-led research has been instrumental for many modern innovations we enjoy today. It’s quite easy for us in IT to recall that the Internet, web browsers, magnetic core memory, Google, numerous programming languages, operating systems, and other computing technologies were conceived or advanced by academic research.

Avoid Ransomware with Nutanix, Arcserve and Sophos

Ransomware attacks seem endless and relentless. Daily headlines scream about the severity and frequency of attacks on organizations of all kinds – no industry is immune, and some including healthcare and government face more scrutiny when cyber attacks affect patient or constituent data or cause downtime for critical services.

Frame in a Google World

Nutanix Xi Frame and Google with 1-click Identity, Application, Infrastructure, and Storage integration

Nutanix Clusters | Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure for Multicloud era

Nutanix Clusters enables seamless application migration and unified operations across Clouds to help businesses accelerate their Cloud journey in a Hybrid and Multicloud Era

Ligers, Tigons, and Grolars. Oh My! The Hybrid Fascination

Find out how Nutanix is revolutionizing the hybrid game with a straightforward, streamlined approach, helping to eliminate the need for costly, dedicated hybrid cloud specialists and freeing your organization to harmonize operations across clouds.

Xi Government Cloud Achieves FedRAMP Authorization

FedRAMP authorization was created to provide a standardized security assessment framework for products and services provided to the federal government by private vendors.

Nutanix and Google Cloud Expand Partnership Delivering Apps and Desktops as a Service

Google Cloud and Nutanix have been working together for several years to enable the best possible user experience for apps and desktops that are streamed from the cloud.

Addressing New Challenges in Education with Frame

Over the last decade, technology has been completely transforming education and the learning experience, from K-12 to higher ed.

All-Together Now: Nutanix 1-Click, Non-Disruptive Cloud Upgrades

Nutanix launched its latest release of Life Cycle Manager (LCM), delivering 1-click, non-disruptive infrastructure upgrades for Nutanix environments.

Nutanix Insights: Striving Towards A Healthier Cloud

Nutanix starts the rollout of a new predictive health and automated support offering called Nutanix Insights.

Nutanix Files--Try It in Your Own Environment or Try It on Ours with Test Drive

Nutanix customers get faster file data access with a lower overhead with Nutanix Files.

Take Nutanix Mine with HYCU for a Test Drive

We’re proud to announce that you can now experience Nutanix Mine with HYCU, our integrated and powerful backup solution, on Nutanix Test Drive.

What’s the Value of Transformed IT Operations? Get a Free Customized Report from IDC

Recently IDC sought to capture and quantify the full value that customers experienced after leaving traditional legacy infrastructure behind for the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud platform.

Nutanix and ASUG Discover Key Insights on SAP Infrastructure Refreshes

Whether you are refreshing infrastructure for an existing SAP landscape or migrating to S/4HANA, Nutanix is uniquely suited to meet your SAP infrastructure needs.

Future of Work: VDI and DaaS Will be Critical

Is VDI or DaaS (or a combination of both) right for you? This blog examines some key findings of that research—including the benefits and challenges of each technology—to help you make smarter EUC decisions.

Edge Revolution: HPE ProLiant DX8000 with Nutanix

HPE and Nutanix have announced a compelling new offering tailored for edge compute requirements: the HPE ProLiant DX8000.

Even Greater Customer Choice: Expansion of the HPE-Nutanix Partnership

A year into the global partnership between Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Nutanix, we’ve seen new product and solution offerings, new customer promotions, and growing customer orders.

Storage and Frame - options explained!

Applications without data is like an awesome Tesla Cybertruck without batteries. It's all about the data, apps are just access.

Rendering Ransomware Worthless

The international police organization INTERPOL recently warned that it “has detected a significant increase in the number of attempted ransomware attacks against key organizations and infrastructure engaged in the virus response.

Remote IT Infrastructure Management from Anywhere, for Day-0 and Beyond

End-user-computing (EUC) and desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) solutions provide employees with secure access to corporate applications and data. However, they don’t necessarily provide IT professionals with all the necessary access for their jobs.

Calm 3.0 is Here!

Nutanix Calm, as you likely know, provides self-service VM and application lifecycle management, monitoring, and standardization for developers and operations teams. Since its launch, customers have used Calm to select, provision, and manage IaaS VMs, as well as business applications across private and public clouds.

Irena Djordjevic: Women in Technology Scholarship is Highly Motivating for Me

One of the last year’s winners of Women in Technology scholarships, Irena Djordjevic from Nis, has been in touch with science and technology from her earliest school days. Passion for those fields and excellent results at competitions have opened the doors of Petnica Science Center, the most prestigious institution for young talents in Serbia.

Intelligent Automation and the Rise of Strategic IT

In December of 2019, global investment bank, Morgan Stanley laid off 1,500 workers, including many of its senior technology staff, as a part of a restructuring effort despite strong financial performance the previous quarter.

The Day IT Stood Still

During the recent week off from work, I had a chance to listen to some of the classic radio dramas. I heard episodes from The Shadow, Lake Wobegone, and the two classics – The Day the Earth Stood Still and War of the Worlds. I grew to love radio drama.

IT Emerging Stronger--Let’s Celebrate at Xperience!

Nutanix will celebrate our IT heroes by hosting our first virtual event, Xperience. It will take place in the Americas region on June 24th, followed by Asia Pacific on July 2nd and EMEA and India on July 16th.

OpsRamp Achieves Certification to Monitor and Manage Nutanix HCI

We’re excited to announce that OpsRamp is now officially Nutanix Ready Certified as an AHV Integrated Technology Alliance Partner in the Nutanix Elevate Program.

25+ Top Hyperconverged Infrastructure Resources

Welcome to the (hyperconverged) promised land. Here you’ll find the best resources, training materials, and community conversations on hyperconvergence that you could possibly dream of.

A Case Study on Cloud Migration for Delaware Valley Community Health

As a private, non-profit organization, Delaware Valley Community Health (DVCH) has always had the mission of providing care to the underserved, regardless of their ability to pay at the time of service.

Nutanix User Groups 101

If you’ve thought about joining a NUG but weren’t sure exactly what you’d be getting into, or don’t know much about NUGs but are eager to learn more, keep reading.

Frame Video Walkthroughs, as easy as 1-2-3

Imagine getting a complete overview of Frame including seeing how an end user utilizes the LaunchPad and how a Frame admin uses the Dashboard and the Frame super administrator interface.

For Nutanix Partners, Now Is the Time to Own the Future

Now more than ever, partners are facing massive change and uncertainty about the future. Our goal at Nutanix is to help our partners harness these challenges into a strategy for their future success.

Ensure Business Continuity with Wipro virtuadeskᵀᴹ Powered by Nutanix

Almost every business has a continuity plan to ensure that critical IT systems continue to function, and employees continue to work after disaster strikes. These plans often shift work to other locations or regions.

Improving IT Cost Efficiency

While IT teams face unprecedented pressure to reduce costs, they are still expected to drive innovation across their organization and improve overall IT agility.

Driving Successful Operations with Nutanix TAMs

The Nutanix Technical Account Manager (TAM) team is a worldwide service dedicated to ensuring customer success.

AOS 5.17 is Here!

With AOS 5.17, Nutanix continues to extend our lead in the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market with innovative new capabilities in addition to continued improvements to core functionality.

Battle-Tested IT: Business continuity during uncertain times

As the global response to COVID-19 evolves, we are adapting to an ever-changing environment that forces us to think differently.

Creating a Resilient and Scalable IT Team with Automation

In a regular business environment, the expectation from IT leaders is to create a resilient IT infrastructure. But in times of upheaval, this becomes even more important.

The Top 7 Hybrid Cloud Dos and Don’ts in Less than 7 Minutes

Businesses are increasingly relying on hybrid cloud to simplify their operations, provide optimal security, and match the right resources to each workload.

Desktop as a Service on 4 Different Cloud Platforms in 3 Minutes

Connecting your cloud subscription to Frame is delightfully simple. So simple, it takes minutes you’re looking at about 2 minutes and just a few clicks.

Improve Patient Engagement and Staff Productivity with Nutanix End User Computing Solutions

This eighth blog in our series on end-user computing (EUC) explores the benefits of VDI and DaaS for Healthcare.

Cloud Migration Test Plan: Nutanix Move 3.5 | Nutanix

With the release of Nutanix Move 3.5 came a feature that was requested by a lot of our customers, migration test. Find out the system requirements here.

New, Now, NEXT: The Best Insights from NEXT Magazine 7.0

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Issue 7 of NEXT Magazine is here, and is overflowing with can’t-miss content.

Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing in the Media & Entertainment Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact all aspects of our society and many industries were caught off guard and had to adjust rapidly to the fluid macro environment. Media and entertainment (M&E) industry is one of the many industries that is adjusting to this new reality.

What’s New in AOS 5.15

Discover What’s New in AOS 5.15! Take this course and learn about all the new features and get up to speed with everything AOS 5.15.

Empower remote users with self-service restore on Nutanix files

Simplicity is included with Nutanix Files out of the box. Sometimes that means making management and administrative tasks easier so that application and use case owners can self-manage file storage. Other times it means extending control to end users and empower self-service. In a world where more people are working remotely, self-service becomes even more important as the remote user may not have ready access to office resources. A great example of this is the self-service restore feature of Nutanix Files.

Transforming Legal Practices in Uncertain Times

Virtually every industry is being impacted by the stay-at-home orders caused by the coronavirus, and law firms are not immune. With these orders, legal staff are pushing to stay more connected with each other while being distributed.

Executive, Disrupt Thyself

The first thing most CEOs do when they join a company is to meet with their executive team to find out what’s working, what needs fixing, and who can fix it.

Nutanix DR Multi Site Recovery

Added to the complexity, today most enterprises are locked to a set of vendors and the hypervisor used. IT topology becomes even more complex and operational challenges go exponential when the multiple copies of application data need to be synchronized and maintained in different physical locations whether the sites are located in the same room or different buildings in the same campus or even across thousands of kilometers. The need for such a complex topology would arise due to compliance regulations, distributed business operations, collaboration etc., of course all abiding with the regional data privacy laws.

Taking Control of Your Costs in Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, or Multi-Cloud

The manufacturing business is globally spread - logistics and supply chains span multiple vendors and regions, and the product/engineering teams and customers span across the globe. Hence, accurate infrastructure planning is extremely difficult. Cloud solves this challenge by giving you the ability to burst or scale up and down to meet your specific demands

Leading with Empathy in the Midst of COVID-19

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are grappling with a new normal that we had not even imagined just a few weeks or months ago.

Introducing Azure NVv4 and Nutanix Frame

In this post you will learn the technology details about the NVv4 - the first Azure cloud based instance type to use virtualized AMD GPUs.

Simplify Database Delivery and Enable DBaaS with Wipro Digital Database Services Powered by Nutanix

It’s clear that the way we generate and consume data has changed, and—given the fast pace of modern business—traditional approaches to database management are failing to meet growing enterprise demands.

Healthcare IT Amidst a Healthcare Pandemic

Writing a blog about the current state of healthcare IT is certainly a challenge. After all, in times of a global pandemic, what timeline truly defines “current state”?

Pharma and Biotech Companies are Counting on Cloud Computing and AI to Help Accelerate Drug Discovery

While COVID-19 is the current focus for the majority of the scientific community, the bigger question is: how do we leverage technology to accelerate drug discovery in general?

Unlock the Personal and Professional Benefits of NPX Certification

Whether you’re looking to advance your career, build your expertise, or deliver a superior experience to your end-customers, Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) certification offers benefits you won’t find anywhere else.

7 Must-Haves for Private Cloud Success

We’ve spoken to several businesses across various industries to find out how they’re using private cloud, and we’ve gathered 7 of the most important, game-changing tips for maximizing the performance of your private cloud.

Eliminate Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt with Well Architected Solutions

Well architected solutions thrive in complex situations, where adaptability means business continuity, where the continuity is essentially the only path to business survivability.

VMware App Volumes on Nutanix

One of the components of end-user computing is application management and delivery: How do you get applications to your users?

Your agency teams are up and running remotely. Now what?

Like many state and local agency IT teams over the past few weeks, your people had to move at lightning speed to get your agency up and running remotely.

Deploy 600 Citrix Desktops on Nutanix in 1 Hour

In today’s digital economy, enterprises are reassessing their end-user computing (EUC) strategies and seeking solutions to enable employees to work from anywhere with secure remote access to applications, desktops, and data.

HCI Breaks Through Traditional Barriers to Ensuring Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

HCI ushered in a new model for building IT solutions, causing a dramatic shift in the way companies are thinking about supporting business critical operations, both live and in the case of disaster.

Virtual Events Take Center Stage in Our New Reality

Since the early days of events in virtual reality, a lot has changed. Most notably, the proliferation of VR headsets has made a fully immersive experience possible. Access to the kind of graphics hardware needed to render these virtual spaces on a 2D screen is nearly ubiquituos with either local GPUs or cloud-based GPUs accessible from any device. But despite huge leaps forward in technology, we’re still in the early days of VR adoption for events. I’ve “attended” just a few VR events in the past and they were a good start, but light attendance meant that the interaction with others was just not there...yet.

WFH Solutions: Security Advantages & Disadvantages | Nutanix

During the current COVID-19 global pandemic many companies are considering methods by which they can empower their employees to continue to work from home (WFH).

During times of uncertainty, our customers need us the most

As we grapple today with the reality of a global pandemic and businesses are challenged with a new normal, our unwavering commitment to our customers remains unchanged.

Digital Transformation is About Building Resilient IT

Nutanix is redefining digital transformation. The key is in building a resilient IT environment - both on-prem and in the cloud. Learn how.

Make EUC easy with the right Private Cloud

Security, backup, disaster recovery, and storage consolidation - there are some key capabilities that should be built-in (natively integrated) and available to deliver you the right private cloud platform. Nutanix does.

Nutanix Named as Gartner Peer Insights 2020 Customers’ Choice for Hyperconverged Infrastructure

We are proud to share a few of the reviews that highlight how Nutanix’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure earned an overall 4.7/5 star rating based on over 300 reviews of our product on Gartner Peer Insights as of March 31, 2020.

What makes Nutanix Frame different than Amazon, Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware DaaS solutions?

The TCO of DBaaS with Nutanix Era (or Why to Evolve from Traditional Database Operations)

Nutanix Era brings a new approach to database administration that is similarly changing the nature of the DBA role.

How to Be Successful with Desktop-as-a-Service, Part 2: Security, Endpoints, Management, and Culture

"How to Be Successful with DaaS: Part 2" focuses on identity management and security, endpoint devices, workspace and application management, and company culture.

Humanizing Business with Digital Transformation

Think about the last time you bought something that a close friend recommended. How easy was it to trust their endorsement? What made their word so much stronger than the dozens of other brands trying to sell you the same item?

Turn your Database into a Service

A recent white paper written by Tony Baer of dbInsight, Turn your Database into a Service, leverages 25+ years of industry perspective to demonstrate how the cloud has provided an opportunity to drastically simplify database management and operations through DBaaS offerings.

How to Be Successful with Desktop-as-a-Service part 1

Desktop-as-a-Service means different things to different people, so it is important to understand what each potential provider offers and who is responsible for managing what.

5 Private Cloud Myths...Busted!

Since 2003, MythBusters has been a TV staple for curious minds everywhere (and more recently, it has graced memes across the interweb).

How to support working remotely—quickly and safely

Our customers have asked for support to adjust and maintain business continuity through increased capacity to work remotely.

Desktop as a Service on 4 Different Cloud Platforms in 3 Minutes

Frame started out during the early days of cloud computing, learning to adapt to rapid changes and build features to meet the needs of our many unique customers. We weren’t just built during early public cloud development, Frame was built on the public cloud and has always taken an agile development and delivery approach -- anticipating customer demands and acting quickly to provide new solutions using the latest technology innovations.

IDC Reports 414% ROI With Nutanix Files over Competitor NAS

Industry analyst IDC recently conducted a 6 month study with Nutanix Files customers who reported an average of 414 percent ROI over 5 years compared to legacy NAS.

Turning Adversity into Opportunity - Learn from Home

Unless it's been your normal work life, you may be adjusting to the upside and downside of “working from home.”

Nutanix Objects 2.0

Breaking cluster boundaries for seamless data management.

Nutanix's Response to COVID-19

As Coronavirus continues to spread, we want to take a moment to inform our community about the steps Nutanix is taking to ensure the well-being of our employees while continuing to serve our customers and partners.

Nutanix's Response to COVID-19

As Coronavirus continues to spread, we want to take a moment to inform our community about the steps Nutanix is taking to ensure the well-being of our employees while continuing to serve our customers and partners.

IT in the time of COVID-19

IT people are a special breed. Sure, we’re technologists and engineers. But we have more dimensions than that. Right next to that “tech is awesome” streak we have a “process is cool” streak.

Building a ‘Cloud Smart’ Strategy for your Applications: Part 1

This topic is a continuation of the application attributes, infrastructure, and cloud choices discussion. It has been split into two blogs for readability.

Web Browsers: Your Greatest Strength and Weakness

By implementing secure browser technologies on Nutanix Xi Frame, organizations can isolate this most vulnerable entry point and seamlessly maintain and upgrade it without impacting the end user in any way.

Postponing our Investor Day

As the coronavirus has recently spread in the United States and communities have made difficult decisions daily -- often with limited information -- we had to make our own decision. Make it virtual? Postpone altogether? It is a classic situation of having to make a decision when we don’t have all the information we need to make it.

Nutanix Named One of the 2020 FORTUNE Best Workplaces in Technology

At Nutanix, we are proud that we have built a culture where our employees build and innovate with the following values always top of mind: Hungry, Humble, Honest, and with Heart.

2020 - State of the End User Computing Union survey is now open

Hoorah! The ‘State of the End User Computing Union 2020’ survey powered by ‘VDI Like a Pro’ is now open.

VDI vs DaaS: How Do You Choose?

This blog compares VDI and DaaS in five major areas where significant differences exist.

Looking to embark on Industry 4.0 journey? Start (Modernize OT) and Accelerate (Leverage AI): A Two-step IIoT Blueprint (with customer stories)

Embark on the Industry 4.0 journey with a two-step blueprint...

With Patient Needs Top of Mind, Healthcare Turns to Hybrid

It’s safe to say that few industries are more positively impacted by technology than healthcare.

“In case of emergency, press here”

Enable “work from anywhere”—in any circumstance—and do it in 5 easy steps.

Five Things to Know Before HIMSS20

This year, as healthcare organizations continue to witness unprecedented change and face increasing pressures to drive digital transformation, the HIMSS20 call for action “Be the Change” certainly rings true.

What’s Driving Financial Firms’ Cloud Futures?

Following the release of Nutanix’s second annual Enterprise Cloud Index report measuring companies' plans to adopt private, public, and hybrid clouds, the team has been analyzing the data further to better understand how trends affect financial firms. The report analyzed more than 500 financial services companies across the globe.

What is DaaS in Cloud Computing? | Nutanix

DaaS provides many of the same advantages as VDI, without the need to design, procure, deploy, and manage the necessary hardware and software yourself.

Smart Manufacturing Starts with Smart IT

Manufacturing labor productivity growth has been stuck at less than a percent for the last decade or even declining in some cases while the costs have been going up.

A hyperconvergence “credit card”: New payment options with Nutanix and Societe Generale Equipment Finance partnership

Recently, Nutanix and Societe Generale Equipment Finance (SGEF) entered into a partnership to offer yet another buying option to Nutanix customers looking to purchase industry-leading hyperconverged infrastructure and cloud solutions.

Using Peripherals with Xi Frame

In this blog, we will update you on the latest Xi Frame supported device, as well as the innovative approach we’ve taken to addressing specific use cases like printing or file transfers with virtual desktops.

6 Ways Hyperconvergence Can Enable Financial Services Transformation

Six ways you can leverage hyperconvergence to up-level your organization from a financial center to a competitive banking authority.

The Cost of Unplanned IT Downtime & Outages | Nutanix

The effects of unplanned IT downtime are clear, businesses fail, but how do you protect against downtime and what are the costs of failing to do so?

IT Pickup Lines to Use This Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day isn’t just for people—did you know in 2019, people spent $886 million on their furry, feathered, or scaly companions?

Introducing Nutanix Karbon 2.0: Kubernetes Simplicity, Upgraded!

Kubernetes-- along with its growing ecosystem of cloud-native technologies-- is evolving at breakneck pace.

Try Frame for Free: A quick 2-hour Test Drive or a comprehensive 30-day Trial

There are two ways to try Xi Frame for free. Yes, you heard that right. Try Xi Frame for no cost.

How Nutanix Solves the Top VDI Deployment Challenges

While this blog focuses on VDI, the Nutanix platform supports both VDI and DaaS solutions addressing a broad range of use-cases.

Let’s Make 2020 Our Best Year Yet

My first six months at Nutanix have been an incredible experience. In addition to all that I have learned from my new hungry, humble, and honest organization -- I’ve had the opportunity to meet and, most importantly, listen to many valued Nutanix partners like yourself.

VDI Challenges and How to Solve Them

Learn about the common problems that arise with VDI. We’ll look at three big VDI challenges—poor user experience, solution complexity, and high costs.

Take Nutanix Test Drive 2.0 for a Spin

Ever wondered what it would take to build your own private cloud with Nutanix? Well, now you can try it out with the all-new Nutanix Test Drive 2.0.

IDC Whitepaper Shows Nutanix Delivers Business Agility and Value

A recent IDC whitepaper shows that deploying Nutanix Enterprise Cloud enabled an average of 62% lower cost of operations vs. legacy and alternative environments over five years.

The Essentials of A Well Architected Solution

Well architected solutions are the gold standards that guarantee excellent end user and business experience.

Managed Desktops on AHV as Easy as 1-2-3

A walk through setting up Xi Frame to host your apps, desktops, and user data on Nutanix infrastructure running AHV in just a few easy steps.

Why Should You Care About VDI and Desktop-as-a-Service?

It’s been a long-running joke in the IT industry that every year is going to be “the year of VDI,” the year when IT organizations finally recognize the full value of virtual desktops and applications and adoption accelerates.

The Cloud Adoption Showdown: 2018 vs. 2019

Inevitably, the cloud model of choice one year might drop off the pedestal the next.

Don’t Put Backup on the Backburner

Today we’re proud to announce the general availability of Nutanix Mine. This truly integrated data protection solution allows customers to experience top-notch data management capabilities on Nutanix’s industry-leading enterprise cloud platform.

Nutanix Frame Partner Community Summit in Belgrade

Read about our experience at the 3-day long Nutanix Frame Partner Community Summit in Belgrade, a place where Frame was born.

Telecom providers: Trouble making money off 5G? 15 minutes could...

Telecom providers need to embark on a journey to reduce costs and create sustainable new service revenue models. Learn how by following these 3 steps.

Top 20 IT Reads for 2020

From enabling DevOps to optimizing your resource utilization to refreshing your datacenter technology, we’ve compiled 20 must-have IT reads.

.NEXT 2020 Chicago Call for Content is Now Live!

If you’ve ever been to Nutanix’s .NEXT conference, then you know it’s the place to be for all things enterprise cloud.

Gratitude, Above All

When we were invited to participate in the Canalys Channels Leadership Matrix in November 2019, we honestly were not sure what to expect. It is with the most profound appreciation that we realized that you have ranked us as a Champion, based on the 2019 Vendor Benchmark.

The Results are In: Attributes Driving Where Applications Live

We published a blog and created a short survey on what is driving where applications and IT services live and run. Now the findings are here!

Power of Customer Success: Nutanix Education and Residency Service

The latest IDC survey found organizations using Nutanix cut down the time spent on daily infrastructure and virtualization management tasks by 58% (average).

2019 - Xi Frame Year-in-Review

With this post, we’ll cover the key releases and kick off a whole new series of technical blogs dedicated to keeping you up to speed on the latest Frame features, tips, customer stories, best practices and more.

Cloud Migration Test Plan: Nutanix Move 3.5 | Nutanix

With the release of Nutanix Move 3.5 came a feature that was requested by a lot of our customers, migration test. Find out the system requirements here.

Tips for Getting Private Cloud Costs Under Control

See why enterprises who are concerned with improving security and controlling costs are moving back to private clouds — at least in the short-term.

Is IT Supporting or Slowing Today’s Mobile Workforce?

If we were to compare the workforce of the past up against today’s, what would we see? Better diversity, improved accessibility and inclusivity, and a more accommodating company culture, for starters.

One-Click IoT and AI-based Smart Supply Chain Solutions by Hardis Group and Nutanix

We are excited to announce a new supply chain optimization solution that harnesses the power of IoT (internet of things) and AI (artificial intelligence) from the edge to the cloud.

Cost Management Tips for Your Private Cloud

Private clouds offer some very distinct benefits to IT teams. Most notably, security and predictability have become synonymous with private clouds.

Why Cloud-Native Management Tools Aren’t Enough

Keeping track of various and sundry cross-cloud resources has the potential to become mind-numbingly complex as hybrid and multi-cloud deployments heat up.

How To Deploy Private Cloud In 4 Steps | Nutanix

How do you implement a private cloud network and how complex is it? It takes 4 simple steps. Check out our video to learn how to deploy your private cloud.

How To Deploy Private Cloud In 4 Steps | Nutanix

How do you implement a private cloud network and how complex is it? It takes 4 simple steps. Check out our video to learn how to deploy your private cloud.

Evaluating Technology Companies’ Market Share in Times of Change

Evaluating technology companies’ market share is a complex business; technology moves fast and old metrics must constantly be reevaluated.

What’s Driving Where You Run Your IT Applications and Services

Supply chain functions are similar to IT applications, workloads, and services—each with their own set of attributes. These attributes can help determine where to place and run these IT applications.

What’s Driving Where You Run Your IT Applications and Services

Supply chain functions are similar to IT applications, workloads, and services—each with their own set of attributes. These attributes can help determine where to place and run these IT applications.

Hybrid Cloud Fuels a Flexible Future, as 73% of Enterprises Move Apps Back on Prem: 2019 ECI Report Findings

Ten years ago, Nutanix set out to create a company that enables any enterprise to harness the power of the cloud for all of its workloads, whether those services run in on-premise data centers or in the public cloud.

Customers Weigh In: Tips for Your First Day on Nutanix

Cher said it best: If you could turn back time, you’d likely want to spare others (and yourself!) from pain. And when it comes to the datacenter, chances are you wish you could’ve saved yourself and your team from the pain of legacy infrastructure years go.

Nutanix Deconstructed: What Our Subscription Evolution Means for Partners

If you love learning something new each and every day, then Nutanix is the right partner for you.

Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure Platform Optimized to run Epic Operational Database and Cogito Databases

Nutanix is currently the #1 deployed HCI solution within the Epic community, with over 20 mutual customers ranging from small hospitals to those with more than 20,000 concurrent users.

‘Twas a Dark and Stormy Night in the Datacenter

Over the years, we’ve heard a lot about datacenter “nightmares” companies experienced before adopting hyperconverged infrastructure—things like hair-pulling IT complexity, silos, high costs, and more.

Nutanix at KubeCon: Come Learn about One-Click Kubernetes Operations

Join us at booth S3 to learn how Nutanix is bringing the applications, data, and clouds all together now!

Maintaining Security Compliance in the Hybrid Cloud

Enterprises have identified the hybrid cloud as the ideal IT operating model. Now, how do they keep their data safe across cloud borders? (Pssst: they use Xi Beam.)

A New Era for IT

Business users and their customers now demand to be delighted and hence the role of IT is changing dramatically.

Dedication, Expertise and Opportunity: Highlights from the Partner Xchange at .NEXT Europe

Last week, we wrapped up our fourth .NEXT Europe where we welcomed a record 1300 partner attendees to Copenhagen. While we use our time at this event to share the latest training, news and information from Nutanix; I’m always impressed by what our partners bring, what they teach us, and their passion for what they do.

What is DevOps, and Why Now?

Although the term “DevOps” has been around for a decade now, it seems as though we’ve reached an inflection point in terms of industry-wide acceptance and interest.

NEXT Magazine Issue 6 Quick Guide

NEXT Magazine is your source for practical advice, bold ideas, and occasionally controversial opinions from some of the IT industry's leading change agents.

Private Cloud Security Compliance for Nutanix Private Cloud

One of the challenges in a multicloud world is security in the private cloud. See how Nutanix can ensure the security of your critical applications and data.

ServiceNow CMDB Request Management Integration | Nutanix

Find out how we integrate Nutanix' innovative 100% software-defined hyper-converged infrastructure and multi-cloud services with IT operations environments.

ServiceNow CMDB Request Management Integration | Nutanix

Find out how we integrate Nutanix' innovative 100% software-defined hyper-converged infrastructure and multi-cloud services with IT operations environments.

How Much Data Loss and Downtime Can You Afford? Hint: 0

To put the effects of a disaster into perspective, here’s a harrowing figure: 93% of organizations who were hit hard by a disaster were out of business in just a single year.

HPE GreenLake with Nutanix is ready!

HPE and Nutanix promised to bring as a Service consumption to the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform, and now it’s ready.

Understanding The Journey To True Hybrid Cloud

Nutanix Clusters on AWS provides a hybrid cloud extension allowing businesses to manage their applications easily in on-premises and public cloud environments

Calm 2.7: ServiceNow integration, Easy Single VM Operations, Variable Validation and More!

The release of AOS 5.11 comes natively integrated with the newest Calm functionality! With a single upgrade, you can not only take advantage of cutting-edge AOS features, but also the newest Calm integrations and UX.

Nutanix and HPE Team Up Together to Deliver Cloud Simplicity On-Premises

HPE and Nutanix announce the availability of HPE GreenLake with Nutanix. HPE GreenLake is an infrastructure service that delivers on-demand capacity and planning.

Announcing Nutanix Insights - Predictive Health & Support Automation Service

Today we are announcing Nutanix Insights - a Predictive Health & Support Automation Service, for your Nutanix Enterprise Cloud.

Wipro VirtuaDesk Appliance: Powered by Nutanix to Simplify and Accelerate VDI Deployment, Enhance User Experience

Users in today’s modern workplace expect to access their apps and data across multiple devices. Virtual desktops and applications make this possible by letting users seamlessly roam from one device to another, picking up where they left off.

Elevating IT With The Best Private Cloud Service | Nutanix

The role of IT is rapidly evolving from “behind-the-scenes” into “revenue-driving.” See how adopting private cloud monitoring can make IT an Innovation Leader.

How to Manage your Database Goldmine with Nutanix Solutions for Databases

Company data has become a goldmine of information from which companies can identify customer insights and discover the keys to business growth.

Nutanix and Fujitsu: expanding solutions for more customer choice

Did you know that the Nutanix and Fujitsu partnership started in 2017? In November of that year, the XF Series of integrated systems with factory-installed Nutanix software was initially introduced.

Building A Data Services Platform with Nutanix

The power of information is undeniable, and collecting and utilizing information in a timely manner can be a significant competitive advantage.

Meet our .NEXT Europe Customer Award Finalists!

For our upcoming .NEXT Europe conference in Copenhagen we are excited to recognize some of the most innovative companies, IT leaders, and technology teams in the industry.

The State of the SAP S/4HANA Market – What Can We Conclude from Research by ASUG & IDC?

Some recent reports provide insights into plans to move to S/4HANA and the major considerations that are showing up.

Digital Transformation Enabled by Technology in Healthcare

Technology, business processes, new government mandates, industry consolidation, and strong consumerism-driven healthcare are just a few of the key underlying forces that continue to fuel the much needed changes in the healthcare space.

The 5 Pitfalls of Legacy Database Environments

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL, MySQL are essential components for success but too many are still running on legacy IT infrastructure.

10 Reasons to Move your Databases off 3-Tier Infrastructure

Your databases have been running on legacy IT infrastructure for years—decades, even. It’s a beast, but a familiar beast, and your IT team knows the ins-and-outs of the technology.

10 Reasons to Move your Databases off 3-Tier Infrastructure

Your databases have been running on legacy IT infrastructure for years—decades, even. It’s a beast, but a familiar beast, and your IT team knows the ins-and-outs of the technology.

Simplified Subscription Management for AHV with Red Hat Satellite Server

Nutanix has supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a guest OS on AHV since our earliest days.

What do Partners Want from .NEXT Europe?

We’re now getting ready for our fourth .NEXT Europe in Copenhagen and as with anything, the more you do, the more you learn.

Learn New Edge Techniques: IoT, AI and Analytics in Three Days at IoT Solutions World Congress, Barcelona

We are about a month away from IoT Solutions World Congress and we are very excited to be a diamond sponsor from the 29th-31st of October, 2019. We are bringing our bright and talented Nutanix Xi IoT team members and partners to talk to you about IoT/AI edge use cases with powerful live demos.

Paws & Relax with Nutanix at Oracle OpenWorld

If you’re attending Oracle OpenWorld this year in San Francisco, we have a special cuddly treat for you! When you stop by our booth #1111 you will learn about the benefits of running Oracle databases on Nutanix and DBaaS, then stop by booth #1811 to meet and play with some puppies up for adoption through the Finding a Best Friend Rescue Group.

Hybrid Cloud Endgame: Lock in Value

To achieve maximum value, hybrid cloud is more apropos than multi-cloud. It starts with a solid, stable datacenter that can extend seamlessly into clouds as determined by the needs of your end-users and the business.

Is Hyperconvergence Only for Enterprises?

Here’s the long answer: No, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) can mold to fit small and large companies alike—though they’ll realize different benefits.

A Hybrid Cloud Approach to Securing Public Cloud

If you are struggling with on-premise security, you would also struggle with cloud security! IT teams are now realizing that my moving to public cloud can amplify your security shortfalls. But thankfully these can also be easily addressed.

"Games" are afoot at .NEXT Europe

Our philosophy on .NEXT keynote presentations—much like our products—is all about disruption and delight. We seek presenters who share a passion for shaking up the status quo. Who are resilient and creative in the face of adversity.

Why Security and Compliance are Paramount in the Cloud

Ok, you’ve decided to move to the cloud. You heard there’s a bunch of cool stuff you can do at a fraction of your current IT spend.

Managing Costs in a Multi-Cloud Environment

With any emerging enterprise technology the “big break” of explosive user growth doesn’t come until there is an obvious financial gain. When it comes to cloud adoption, the big break came when CFOs looked at the cloud model and discovered some interesting economic benefits.

Career-building Opportunities at .NEXT you Don’t Want to Miss

.NEXT Europe is a once-a-year chance to build your skills and knowledge in hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid clouds, as well as gain insights in new technologies for Enterprise IT. From educational classes and seminars to hands-on labs and certification programs, our education program is designed to help you advance your career.

Benefits & Advantages of End User Computing | Nutanix

In this blog, I’ll talk about the top three benefits of end-user computing and how to achieve your organization’s desired outcomes around virtual desktops.

Benefits & Advantages of End User Computing | Nutanix

In this blog, I’ll talk about the top three benefits of end-user computing and how to achieve your organization’s desired outcomes around virtual desktops.

What are the Security Risks of Multi-Cloud Computing?

Multicloud architectures are introducing new challenges to already complex security models. Understand risks of multicloud computing and how to combat them.

A New VMworld Perspective

There he was up on the big stage at VMworld 2006 general session: my creation, VirtualMan, animated by @JerryChen speaking live with VMware COO, Carl Eschenbach.

Nutanix Targets EPYC™ Single-Socket Appliances with AMD and HPE

Nutanix proudly participated at the general availability launch of the AMD EPYC™ family of processors.

The Next Frontier – Invisible Licensing for your ROBO and VDI environments

Nutanix is introducing new consumption models for specific use cases to provide another option to capacity-based (CBL) and appliance licensing, giving you the flexibility to bring different Nutanix software together in a way that is simple to plan, price, and purchase. The two new use cases are virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and remote office/branch office (ROBO) deployments.

How Automation Improves Multi-Cloud Security & Compliance

Automation allows for you to quickly assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in real-time. The best tools also provide remediation functions to resolve issues.

How Virtual Desktops Benefit Your Organization

Virtual desktops are rapidly replacing physical desktops and laptops in many work environments. These virtual workspaces may be delivered by virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) running in your data center, or desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) solutions in the cloud.

Nutanix AOS 5.11 is Here!

The Nutanix AOS releases together enhance the core AOS storage performance, capacity, data protection, and more. Read some of the key updates & highlights!

1-Click Data Security meets FIPS 140-2

Nutanix’s native software-based encryption utilizes FIPS 140-2 Level 1 validated modules. Software-based encryption delivers security without compromise to data efficiency or performance and supports any Hypervisor.

Nutanix and HPE Announce Integrated Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Appliance

Nutanix launches HPE ProLiant DX, a range of Nutanix-integrated hyperconverged infrastructure appliances based on foundational HPE server technologies.

Nutanix and HPE Announce Integrated Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Appliance

Nutanix launches HPE ProLiant DX, a range of Nutanix-integrated hyperconverged infrastructure appliances based on foundational HPE server technologies.

7 Things .NEXT Does Differently

On top of linking you up with thousands of brilliant, network-worthy peers, delivering world-class speeches from world-class brainiacs, and setting you up for datacenter success both now and for the future, .NEXT sets itself apart from the pack in myriad ways.

IT Under Pressure

Outages, 6-year-old hardware, week-long migrations, vendors breathing down your neck. When your datacenter is going haywire, what do you do to alleviate that pressure?

Why Organizations Are Making the Public Cloud Jump

Even though the world is a decade into the cloud era, organizations of all shapes and sizes are still considering what moves, if any, they want to make with regard to the cloud. So, it makes sense to look at what the cloud offers. Or more specifically, why organizations are making the move to public cloud. Let’s start by taking a look at the existing on-premise model to identify potential pain points

Rearchitecting Unstructured Storage

Unstructured data is typically comprised of data that is not easily searchable, including such formats as audio, video, and social media postings. It has an internal structure but is not structured via pre-defined data models and may be textual or non-textual, and human- or machine-generated. It is typically stored on file and object storage.

IT Superheroes - Even a CIO Hero Needs a Team!

Recently at the annual Nutanix .NEXT Conference, Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer gave a perspective on the team members CIOs need today to succeed in the evolving cloud world. Here are some of the key takeaways from her presentation.

10 Signs It's Time to Upgrade your IT Infrastructure

To keep IT out of the datacenter and in the front lines of innovation, businesses can’t rely on “good enough” infrastructure. Whether you’re ready for a powerful, future-forward infrastructure, need a push to get there, or want arguments you can pass along to your team, read on to find out if you’re overdue for an infrastructure revamp.

Should You Own or Rent Your Infrastructure?

In it you’ll learn how these architectures stack up against each other, 10 reasons why one of those clouds is the future of IT, and practical advice you can use to architect a successful cloud infrastructure.

Have you heard 'Stranger Things' than these datacenter stories?

What exactly is there to fear in the datacenter, you may ask? Here are some of the strangest stories we’ve heard.

Could Status Quo be your Biggest Innovation Enemy?

Disruptive technologies often encounter resistance in the form of status quo biases. To properly combat these biases, you need to know what they are, their true causes, and how to tell a different kind of story--one based in financial analysis--to rationalize IT decision making.

What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)?

In this blog, we’ll simplify what virtual desktop infrastructure is, how to deploy it, and how to learn more information about VDI.

The Customer Journey to a Multicloud Environment

Cloud infrastructure is evolving. Learn about what multi cloud is, how it differs from hybrid cloud, and how enterprises are using it to build their success.

Learn Without Limits

Technology in schools is definitely behind schedule when compared to other institutions in our society. Here is how Nutanix can help.

Nutanix Earns Designation as a Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company

In today’s competitive technology talent environment, culture is what makes a company stand out amongst the crowd. A strong culture helps us hire faster, bring more A-players on board and retain the team that has driven Nutanix’s past successes as a company.

Nutanix will be at the HR Leadership Summit 2019

We are excited to be a sponsor of the HR Leadership Summit in San Diego, July 28, 2019 - July 30, 2019. The HR Leadership Summit is a gathering of C-Suite Executives and senior decision makers from Fortune 1000 and leading enterprise organizations.

Where Are IT Teams Spending Money to Meet Their Business Goals?

IDC recently completed research surrounding surviving (and thriving) in a multicloud world, and short answer: investments in cloud, security, and data are setting the stage for broad IT transformation, and companies that are investing in data integration, cloud, and AI are outpacing their peers.

Nearly Unanimous: Hybrid Cloud is the Future of IT

The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index was a survey of twenty-three hundred IT decision-makers around the world seeking to gain insights into the adoption of public and private cloud technologies.

HCI Resources: 9 Top Guides to HCI | Nutanix

We’ve compiled 9 of the top HCI resources for various familiarity levels, from absolute beginners through to cloud level: expert. Welcome to HCI academy!

Insights from NEXT Magazine Issue 5

Issue 5 of the NEXT Magazine just dropped, and it’s packed with everything from AI to mountain-climbing to The Simpsons...and even an unconventional frostbite treatment.

Cloud First is Often a Mistake. Here's Why.

For some enterprises, a “cloud-first” policy can seem like a no-brainer, especially when compared to the quagmire of traditional datacenter infrastructure. Yet new software-defined infrastructure solutions like hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) also offer IT agility, as well as greater security and control than what’s available in a public cloud.

Xi Cloud Recap from .NEXT 2019

Through Xi Cloud Services, we make it easier for our customers to integrate cloud services into their multi-cloud deployments, whether by natively extending their Nutanix environment beyond the boundaries of a traditional datacenter or by gaining the visibility and insight into their infrastructure deployments across platforms to monitor costs and ensure compliance.

Sharing .heart at .NEXT—in exciting new ways

This year at .NEXT, we saw people giving back to local communities and the world through the organizations featured at .NEXT through our .heart CSR program.

The Evolution of 1-Click ...

We could not sit by and say we have ‘1 click’ when each and every product or component is a separate or isolated ‘1 click’ because we could only execute on one component at a time.

Progressive Communications Uses Nutanix to Enhance Customer Experience

Progressive Communications is a networking solutions provider headquartered in Atlanta, and serving markets across the U.S. and Latin America. Chris Minton was the first Progressive Communications employee to come across Nutanix.

Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure | Nutanix

You may have wondered what problems HCI could solve. We’ve compiled 5 of the top pain-points of not using HCI and the benefits of taking that leap.

Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure | Nutanix

You may have wondered what problems HCI could solve. We’ve compiled 5 of the top pain-points of not using HCI and the benefits of taking that leap.

Top 7 HCI Webinars & Learning Resources | Nutanix

To help get you up-to-speed on the latest in hyperconverged infrastructure learning we’ve compiled 7 of the best webinars from beginner to expert-level.

Ten Years of Delight With Our Partners

.NEXT Conference Anaheim last week was an incredible celebration of the first 10 years for Nutanix, but it also served as a springboard into the next 10 years of our organization and the incredible importance our partner community will have in driving our combined success in the next decade.

True Hybrid Cloud Offering: Clusters on AWS | Nutanix

We chose the most native approach to bringing an HCI stack onto AWS bare metal because we believe it is in the best interest of our joint customers.

Nutanix Mine: Hyperconverge your Data Protection

The Nutanix Mine platform uses the Nutanix AOS goodness to provide the same benefits for secondary storage as we are doing for your applications - simplicity, performance and resiliency. Nutanix Mine extends both the management plane and the data fabric of Nutanix AOS to now run data protection functionality and backup target storage in a turn-key solution, being able to backup environments where Nutanix is the primary infrastructure as well as any virtualized environment.

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud and Xi Frame’s Adventure: Be Excellent to Each User

Nutanix is expanding hybrid cloud capabilities by empowering customers to deliver their virtual applications and desktops in the cloud of their choice, private or public

What’s New with Xi Leap Cloud Disaster Recovery Service

Commercially launched last November, Xi Leap is a mainstream hybrid cloud service from Nutanix, providing disaster recovery for all of your on-prem hosted applications in an easy to consume manner.

Nutanix Accelerates HCI Innovation

The list of recent Nutanix innovations and new product capabilities is too lengthy to fully capture, but here are three notable highlights

Real-time Cloud Security Compliance

Xi Beam helps you gain real-time visibility and control over your multi-cloud security health by automating 250+ security audits based on industry best practices and Beam’s recommendations to improve your cloud infrastructure security.

One-Click IoT and AI-based Application Environment

We are excited to announce a rapid development environment for creating IoT and AI apps in the cloud, that can be easily deployed in the cloud or at the edge. The environment is designed to alleviate pressures faced by many enterprise organizations around cumbersome, generic cloud environments, creating complex AI models, and generating meaningful IoT data.

AI Meets IoT: Nutanix and Deepomatic Join Forces to Democratize AI at the Edge

Many organizations are faced with digital transformation challenges especially when it comes to adopting new technologies. Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two concepts which will enable organizations to rethink traditional edge solutions and drive new revenue streams.

Synergize with Nutanix and Citrix

As everyone focuses on digital workspaces as part of a successful digital transformation journey, the Nutanix and Citrix teams will be bringing the single points of EUC truth.

Save Your Cloud Data from Vengeful Ex-employees

When we think about protecting data in the cloud, it’s usually in defense from bad actors outside of your organization. One thing we overlook is just how quickly an employee can become a bad actor once they leave the company.

Nutanix Activities at Gartner Symposium / ITxpo AU

Nutanix is excited to be at the Gartner Symposium / ITxpo 2014 this week in Gold Coast, Australia, showcasing our technology, speaking with attendees, and demonstrating how web-scale brings ROI to the enterprise.

MEDITECH EHR Certified on Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure Platform

We are super excited to announce that MEDITECH’s Healthcare Information System (HCIS) is now certified to run on Nutanix’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) software platform, an industry first within the MEDITECH ecosystem.

A Big Week for Both SAP and Nutanix

The clock is ticking to one of the biggest weeks of the year for both SAP and Nutanix. May 7-9 happens to be the timing for the marquee customer events for both companies, both in towns made famous by Disney, and both chock-full of technology and business professionals ...

Enterprise Kubernetes Done Right with Nutanix Cloud Native

As an increasing number of organizations turn to DevOps methodologies, it’s becoming clear those that are successful are gaining a competitive advantage over their peers.

Cloud-Ready Enterprises or True-up Surprises?

This is the third blog in my series on the You Decide campaign. I invited Steve Kaplan, AKA “ROI Dude,” to co-blog with me.

Discover the Value of Training at .NEXT 2019

While .NEXT Conference is known for amazing guest keynotes, rockstar parties, and ample networking, it is also the perfect chance to elevate your career with knowledge and skills from the .NEXT education courses, certification opportunities, and hands-on labs.

5 Ways to Improve your IT Infrastructure

No matter how up-to-date your datacenter may seem, there’s always room for improvement.

Hannover Messe 2019 – Notes from a First-Timer

I’m no conference newbie; I’ve been to some pretty major shows. CES is probably the largest, with over 185,000 attendees. But Hannover Messe is even bigger—with over 220,000 attendees—and is almost a city in itself.

5 Ways to Improve your IT Infrastructure

No matter how up-to-date your datacenter may seem, there’s always room for improvement.

Trailblazers, Transformers, and True Givers: See 2019’s Finalists for our .NEXT Customer Awards!

Every year during the .NEXT awards nomination process we’re fascinated, inspired, and moved by what Nutanix customers are doing to make a difference—in their datacenters, their businesses, and the world. This year is certainly no exception.

Tidying up Your Datacenter

Do you greet your datacenter when you walk in? Do you thank your nodes, racks, and cables for all the hard work they’ve done? Do you neatly arrange your hardware so it’s clearly visible and accessible?

Visibility is Key for Cloud Security and Cost Success

Managing your cloud environment is a lot like driving a car. While driving, you’re watching for other drivers and potential dangers – all while abiding by the rules of the road.

DevOps and Cloud Computing: Beyond the Hype

Cloud and DevOps have played a big role in helping IT address some of the biggest transformative shifts of our times. The rise of the service economy, unprecedented pace of disruption, and infusion of digital into everyday life are just some examples.

Jedis, Robots, and Dark Angels —.NEXT 2019 Keynotes!

If you’ve attended a .NEXT Conference you know we tend to be a wee bit quirky and spontaneous in our main stage keynotes. We’ve had Nutanix executives break out in a “Steve Ballmer monkey dance” in 2015;

Moving On Up: Hierarchy of IT Needs and the Cloud

IT has come a long way from providing IT infrastructure and application services to being a driver of business change.

Join Nutanix at Hannover Messe 2019

Come join Nutanix at Hannover Messe in Hannover, Germany from April 1-5 to learn how the Nutanix Xi IoT platform can help jump start your industrial intelligence initiatives.

5 Reasons Not to Attend .NEXT 2019

If you’re an IT pro, leader, or just an enthusiast, you’ve likely heard of .NEXT. If not, here’s an overview: With thousands of industry experts, 100+ sessions, certification courses, and hands-on labs, .NEXT is the only cloud conference dedicated to the latest in datacenter and enterprise cloud technologies.

Of Mice and Men and Mother Nature: Preparing for Disaster

Most people prefer not to think about disasters–which is why, despite all of the available information, most people are grossly underprepared when disasters do occur.

Customers Tell How Nutanix Software and Services Help Their Businesses Thrive

Nutanix recently organized a live conference call with customers from the public and private sectors to discuss why they chose Nutanix to modernize their IT infrastructure.

Say Goodbye to the vTax and Hello to Quality Time

A few weeks ago I shared a blog on what it means to be free of the operational burdens that come with the vTax.

Minimize Cloud Costs with This Workshop

Seasoned business professionals know that success in business is determined by your bottom line. In recent history, optimizing financial performance can be attributed to a number of things, but none more impactful than innovation in tech.

Powering an IT revolution with HCI and hybrid clouds at .NEXT 2019

Spring is around the corner and with the season comes .NEXT 2019—the IT industry’s leading enterprise cloud conference.

Share Your Xpertise

At Nutanix. we believe that diversity of race, gender, culture, education, work experience and thought is at the very core of our success; it’s what drives our innovation. As we continue our rapid growth, we are focused on keeping this competitive advantage. Our Corporate Social Responsibility program, .heart, has developed several initiatives to make sure we not only hire a diverse workforce today, but that we also help prepare the future workforce.

Virtualizing Federal Information Technology

Information technology has evolved immensely over the last three decades, stimulating productivity in many industries. Regardless of the sector, as new communication and data technologies emerge, individuals and organizations alike expect to have the ability to use information in ways that weren’t possible thirty years ago.

Virtualizing Federal Information Technology

Information technology has evolved immensely over the last three decades, stimulating productivity in many industries.

Desktop Virtualization: Which Consumption Model is Best?

Empowering your teams to work better, faster, and more flexibly is one of the keys to success in any organization. Especially in the digital era. Though many organizations have struggled with this over the years, there is an emerging architecture within Nutanix that is helping customers achieve success.

Defining DaaS: Desktop-as-a-Service

A new level of confusion hit the tech world when cloud computing became practical in the enterprise and the term “XaaS” was coined. XaaS, or anything-as-a-service, was used to describe the seemingly endless list of digital services that can be delivered via the cloud.

Introducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) View for Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

IT decision makers operating multi-cloud environments need to make critical budgeting and investment decisions about their cloud investments.

Are you on Track to Meet your Datacenter Resolutions?

Time for a check-in: How well are you doing on your New Year’s resolutions? If you answered with a sharp inhale and a shake of the head, you’re not alone. In fact, about 80% of folks aren’t able to stick to their resolutions.

What Does it Take to be a Cloud Game Changer?

We chatted with several cloud game changers to identify the steps they took to upgrade their IT environment, and we’ve compiled their strategies for success.

vTax-Free Operations

In case you missed it (wink), we launched our global You Decide campaign last month. Over the course of 3 blogs, I’ll dive in deeper to what it means to say goodbye to painful upgrades, true up surprises, vendor lock in and fire drills.

Multi-Cloud Budgeting and Chargeback in Xi Beam

Businesses have increasingly been adopting a multi-cloud approach for their IT infrastructure with applications and workloads running in both public and private cloud environments.

Join Nutanix at the IBM Think Conference in San Francisco: February 12-15, 2019

IBM Think, the flagship conference for IBM is a huge opportunity for customers and partners to learn about emerging technologies where IBM is involved, get one-on-one advice from IBM experts, and hear about the successes and challenges faced by global business leaders and industry disruptors.

Multi-Cloud Vs Hybrid: What's The Difference? | Nutanix

Multi cloud and hybrid cloud are often confused with one another. Learn about what each cloud platform is, how they're different, and when they should be used.

Multi-Cloud Vs Hybrid: What's The Difference? | Nutanix

Multi cloud and hybrid cloud are often confused with one another. Learn about what each cloud platform is, how they're different, and when they should be used.

What I Learned From Retailers at NRF 2019

We recently concluded a whirlwind three days at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference in New York, where we had great conversations with retailers and suppliers of all types.

Unveiling Cloud Cost Anomaly Detection from Xi Beam

Cloud cost anomaly detection is a vital tool in keeping your cloud costs under control. To put it in perspective, balancing your own budget isn’t always easy – even if you’re the most frugal person you know.

Nutanix welcomes founders of Chromotif!

I’m excited to share the news that the founders of Chromotif — Param Desai (CEO), Shashi Uli (CTO), and Jonathan Arms (VP BD), are joining Nutanix today.

The Nutanix Approach to Federal IT – Part II

In Part I of this blog, we talked about “the interesting times we live in” regarding the state of Federal IT. The problem is – managing and delivering IT shouldn’t be an adventure.

Top 10 Cloud Security Trends for 2019

By aligning the right providers with your desired business outcomes, cloud computing can be a fantastic driver of business growth and end-user satisfaction.

Nutanix Files Delivers End-User Computing Without Compromise

Enterprises turn to end-user computing, and VDI in particular, to secure an array of benefits, including lower administrative overhead, increased employee productivity, and costs savings.

Top 10 Cloud Management Questions Answered

Cloud management isn't easy at any size. Get answers to the top 10 questions you should be asking in order to successfully operate in a multicloud environment.

5 Keys to Cloud Compliance in 2019

If you’ve been employed in a formal engagement of some kind, it’s likely that you’re familiar with the idea of regulatory compliance.

The State of Federal IT

There’s an old proverb (and possibly a curse), to wit: “May you live in interesting times.” Regarding Federal IT, we certainly do live in interesting times.

Join Nutanix at HIMSS Conference and Exhibition: February 12-14, 2019

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the leading health information and technology conference, bringing together 45,000+ healthcare professionals from 90+ countries for the education, innovation, and collaboration to transform the healthcare industry is taking place in Orlando, Florida.

A Pragmatic Path to the Retail Cloud

The tangible benefits of the enterprise cloud are transforming retail. These cloud-driven changes are more than a marginal evolution toward more efficient, scalable, and connected business systems.

Preventing Data Breaches with App-Centric Security

The volume and sophistication of cyber attacks along with extensive losses from successful exploits being covered in the media have made security a top priority for IT leadership. No business wants to make headlines because of a security breach.

Commvault Heads to .NEXT

We recently caught up with Greg White, Director of Alliance Marketing at Commvault, to talk about the Commvault and Nutanix partnership and his expectations for the upcoming .NEXT conference.

Why Can’t IT Administrators and Decision Makers Agree on Cloud?

Here’s a test. Would you be comfortable giving a definition of ‘the cloud’ to a stranger? If you have any doubts, don’t worry – you’re not alone.

It’s Time to Forge a Consensus on Cloud

Ever since the emergence of cloud, there’s been fierce debate about which architecture is best. Public and private cloud both have their advocates.

Test Your Datacenter Knowledge!

So, you work in a datacenter. Maybe you spend a lot of time there. You might know your datacenter pretty well, but how well do you know what’s happening in other datacenters around the world?

Nutanix CEO Letter to Stockholders

This September, we completed two years as a public company and nine years since we were founded in 2009.

What does the future hold? Trends for 2019 and Beyond

The close of the year is a time for reflection. It’s also a time to look forward to the promise of the what’s to come. In that spirit, we thought it would be interesting to share a few ideas we believe will be important in 2019 and beyond.

Insights from NEXT Magazine Issue 4

NEXT Magazine is your source for practical advice, bold ideas, and occasionally controversial opinions from some of the IT industry’s leading change agents.

Save the Date: National Retail Federation Conference, Jan 13-15, 2019

Nutanix is excited to be sponsoring the 2019 National Retail Federation (NRF) Conference this coming January 13-15 in New York!

Have You Seen The List? The Just 100 2019: Companies Doing Right By America

This week, Forbes announced the Just 100, its list of the 100 companies that are doing right by America.

Take the First Step on Your Journey to the Enterprise Cloud

Leading IT organizations are moving to Nutanix Enterprise Cloud which combines the agility and simplicity of the public cloud, with the security and control you need in a private cloud.

Q&A with Elaine Yee, VP of Sales – Americas West

Nutanix is thrilled to have just recently lured Elaine Yee as our brand new VP of Sales – Americas West

Fuel Your Business with an Intelligent Edge

We are excited to announce the general availability of Xi IoT to the public. It’s a simple, scalable, and secure intelligent edge platform for real-time analysis delivered as a part of Xi Cloud Services.

AWS Transit Gateway: What it is, benefits, and limitations

Among the announcements, AWS re:Invent 2018 attendees are buzzing about is the AWS Transit Gateway designed to simplify network management. IT fraternity seems to love the number 1 (one click, one view), and this new tool continues that theme, merging cloud resources and on-prem datacenters into one network topology.

AWS Transit Gateway: What it is, benefits, and limitations

Among the announcements, AWS re:Invent 2018 attendees are buzzing about is the AWS Transit Gateway designed to simplify network management. IT fraternity seems to love the number 1 (one click, one view), and this new tool continues that theme, merging cloud resources and on-prem datacenters into one network topology.

Xi Frame – Desktop as a Service (DaaS) at Your Service

The Xi Frame team just completed a week at Autodesk University, where Xi Frame powered the hands-on-labs and certification labs. This was the second year that Xi Frame was the delivery platform of choice for delivering full versions of AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, and more for Autodesk University attendees to use for their conference labs.

Introducing Xi Epoch by Nutanix

We are excited to announce the general availability of Xi Epoch, a universal observability and monitoring service for modern cloud applications. Xi Epoch enables DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to gain end-to-end visibility into application infrastructure, service interactions, and dependencies.

Everything You Need to Know About AWS Firecracker

The world has come a long way from maintaining hardware in a big room full of servers to running CPU and memory-intensive applications in just one click. One of the main purposes of this transition is to enable developers and system engineers to concentrate more on applications and programs rather than maintaining the underlying infrastructure.

AWS Announces S3 Intelligent Tiering, What is it Really?

Amazon Simple Storage Service, better known as AWS S3, is one of the oldest and most widely used solutions from Amazon Web Services. S3 is designed to store terabytes of customer data with high availability and scale.

Nutanix Era: One-Click Database Operations | Nutanix

Announcing Nutanix Era’s support for Oracle and PostgreSQL. Find out about one-click provisioning and database time machine, both supported in this release.

The Nutanix Customer Journey: A Perspective from .NEXT, EMEA

As we head into .NEXT London tomorrow, I’ve found myself taking a step back to reflect on how far we have come as a company since we were founded nine years ago.

Nutanix Karbon: Enterprise-grade Kubernetes Solution

Enterprises in all industries are looking more like tech companies as they rely on software to deliver value to customers and stay competitive. From airplane manufacturers leveraging software and the Internet to better predict maintenance needs to hotel operators driving customer satisfaction by helping guests avoid lines with smartphone check-in—they all require rapid development of software.

Nutanix Karbon: Enterprise-grade Kubernetes Solution

Enterprises in all industries are looking more like tech companies as they rely on software to deliver value to customers and stay competitive. From airplane manufacturers leveraging software and the Internet to better predict maintenance needs to hotel operators driving customer satisfaction by helping guests avoid lines with smartphone check-in—they all require rapid development of software.

The Importance of Cloud Security and Compliance for Your Business

It’s becoming a story we’re all too familiar with: even one cloud security incident, usually arising out of a badly implemented cloud compliance policy can send a company on a downward spiral with legal fees, customer anger (or worse, customer loss), and bad press.

How We Got to Hyperconverged Infrastructure

With hyperconvergence adoption on the rise, it’s hard to believe HCI is a relatively new player in the grand scheme of IT. In fact, according to the State of the Enterprise Datacenter report, 67% of respondents are either using or are planning to adopt hyperconverged infrastructure.

Four Roadblocks that Slow a Hybrid Private and Public Cloud Adoption

Companies today are pursuing a private and public cloud integration to accelerate digital transformation and make IT services more agile and cost-effective.

Xi Leap – The First No-Install DR

Today we proudly announced the availability of Xi Leap, a Disaster Recovery (DR) service delivered from Xi Cloud.

The Future of the Datacenter is Multicloud

For too long IT organizations and the datacenters they run have been cost centers bogged down with elaborate processes that stymie innovation. The advent of cloud computing has transformed IT service delivery, providing unprecedented levels of flexibility and agility.

What IT is Digging

We’ve learned a lot of interesting things about IT teams’ infrastructure needs, pain points, and challenges in our conversations with IT pros around the globe. But along the way, we’ve also learned some pretty interesting things about what IT pros are into in the world beyond the datacenter.

28 Actions You Can Take to Manage Cloud Costs

With the cloud becoming the new normal, and organizations moving toward digital business initiatives, the dynamics of IT have completely changed.

The 7 Essential Steps for IT Transformation

IT strategy has shifted to prepare for and kickstart digital transformation as a business-critical initiative—but there’s still a datacenter to run.

5 Architecture Principles to Consider before Choosing Your Infrastructure | Nutanix

Find out why choosing the right infrastructure is among the biggest decisions you'll make when it comes to application and desktop virtualization projects.

Tackling diversity head on—and with .heart

Here at Nutanix we’re guided by a set of culture principles that help us “live our culture.” As the official “ People Person” here, one in particular stands out to me: Hire Often, Hire Diverse.

Nutanix AOS 5.9 is Here!

The Nutanix AOS 5.8 release back in July 2018 unleashed many new security enhancements with a focus on encryption and identity management. We are excited to let you know that AOS 5.9 is here and available for you to download from the portal.

Intern Life at Nutanix

When I first started the daunting task of finding a summer internship, I was nervous about making the wrong decision and spending my summer making photocopies or going on coffee runs.

Beam | Cost Optimization for the Enterprise Cloud

Enterprises increasingly run applications in a variety of different cloud environments—public, private, distributed, and hybrid cloud. With a mix of public and private clouds, enterprises now require services and tools that can work across private and public environments.

Examining Azure Reserved Instances: One Piece of the Cloud Expense Puzzle

While Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to dominate the public cloud market, later entrants have been gaining ground with Microsoft Azure doubling its market share last year to 13%.

Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Checklist

In the pursuit of data protection, businesses nowadays face more hurdles in the security landscape than ever before. From the recent Global Data Center Survey Report, many new trends in datacenter business come as a surprise.

3 Takeaways for Manufacturing and Retail Organizations from Nutanix’s SAP HANA on HCI Certification

Nutanix recently announced that Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS running on the native AHV hypervisor is the first hyperconverged infrastructure to be certified to run production SAP HANA.

What’s in a Name?

Nutanix continues its journey to develop world-class software solutions that empower our customers to develop, run and scale any application in the cloud of their choice – public or private.

Multicloud Cost Control: Whose Job Is It?

Organizations are adopting multiple cloud environments bringing up the concern of cloud spend. Find out who is unexpectedly responsible for the cost management.

The Only Hypervisor Certified for Production SAP HANA on Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI): Another First for Nutanix AHV

SAP HANA is now certified to run in production on AHV, the first hypervisor to be certified to run to run production SAP HANA on hyperconverged infrastructure.

Nutanix Expands Workplace Diversity with Apprenticeships and Returnships

The heartbeat of a company is its people. With greater diversity, comes greater opportunity too, as was famously said by Malcolm Forbes, the American entrepreneur, “think independently together,” and attack business challenges from a variety of valuable perspectives.

Next Generation Virtualization: The Converged Datacenter

According to the IDC, 46% of IT infrastructure spending in Q1 2018 was in the cloud, up from just under 42% a year ago. Reasons to move to the cloud are clear: agility, cost-savings, and ease-of-use are among the most cited benefits.

Desktops-as-a-Service, With No Cloud Lock-In – Frame and Nutanix Xi Cloud Services

Earlier today, we announced the intent to acquire Fra.me and, following the closing of the acquisition, make available Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS) within Xi Cloud Services. The service will initially support 1-click desktop instances on AWS and Azure, and continually expand to all types of cloud environments.

A Note From Dheeraj

As we come to a FY18 financial year close, I wanted to share an update with you regarding our President, Sudheesh Nair. Many of you might remember that nine months ago, he handed over the reins of the Sales organization to Lou Attanasio, our Chief Revenue Officer.

The Results are in: Public Cloud Usage Trends

Businesses of varying sizes — from startups to enterprises — are adopting multi-cloud strategies to foster greater agility and innovation velocity. We’ve been tracking public cloud usage of over $1 billion on an annual basis among our customers, and we’ve discovered several cloud adoption and use patterns.

Key Insights From the 2018 State of the Enterprise Datacenter Report

As the datacenter, cloud, and IT overall transform for the future, it’s natural to see fluctuations in how people view these technologies. Plus, emerging trends in IT mean some tools and services will rise in popularity while others lose steam.

New eBook Explores Impact of IoT, AI, and Automation on Manufacturing

Manufacturing organizations often join us in our Executive Briefing Center (EBC) to learn how Nutanix Enterprise Cloud can help modernize their infrastructure. We value the opportunity to hear about their vision and the challenges they face.

Safety First with Nutanix AOS 5.8

It’s the first week of July, so here in North America where Nutanix is headquartered, that means Canada and the United States are celebrating the birth of their nations (Canada Day & Fourth of July) with BBQ, picnics, and of course fireworks.

Finally, we can talk about SAP HANA on Nutanix!

We’ve been struggling for months now to hold our tongues and not prematurely talk about this popular topic. We are at the cusp of yet another exciting and natural next step for the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS based on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), as we continue to expand into the core of the enterprise data center.

2018 Nutanix Elevate Partner of the Year Award Winners

Recently, Nutanix hosted our fourth annual .NEXT user conference in New Orleans. It was truly an incredible event for customers, partners, and Nutanix. With nearly 5,000 attendees, 80 sponsors and an unbelievable lineup of speakers, .NEXT marked its best year yet!

Innovating in a Chaotic Healthcare System

Earlier this year, Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway announced plans to jointly form an independent, not-for-profit healthcare company for their 1.2 million employees marking a bold move by three marquee companies in the world to take a crack at resolving complicated issues in a chaotic healthcare industry.

Nutanix “.hearts” New Orleans

.NEXT… What an experience in one of the best cities in the US! I was fortunate enough to lead the .heart program at .NEXT NOLA where we encouraged attendees to “share your .heart.”

Celebrating Customer Innovation: .NEXT 2018 Customer Awards

Last week we held our fourth annual .NEXT conference in New Orleans with 5,000 customers, partners and industry enthusiasts. We had something for everyone from novice to expert, and enjoyed connecting with peers and recognizing IT leaders who are transforming their organizations with technology as part of our .NEXT customer award program.

Partner Power on Display at .NEXT New Orleans

Attending my first .NEXT Conference last week in New Orleans was truly an incredible and exhilarating experience, featuring a record number of partners, customers, and exciting and innovative product announcements. It also featured our first-ever integrated and dedicated day for our partners, Partner Xchange.

Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Five Considerations for Planning Your Hybrid Cloud Approach

Hybrid cloud adoption is accelerating, but it should only be done with a plan. Discover the questions you should ask yourself while building out your strategy.

Multi Cloud Governance Software: Nutanix Beam | Nutanix

Nutanix Beam is a SaaS that delivers multicloud governance. Learn more about how Beam can provide deep visibility, rich analytics, and cost optimization.

Nutanix Introduces Application Mobility for Public Cloud MIgration to Private Clouds

The next release of Xtract adds Amazon Web Services (AWS) for VM migrations from public cloud infrastructure services to on-premises Nutanix Enterprise Clouds.

Nutanix Era: Database Management System Software | Nutanix

Nutanix Era automates and simplifies database management. One-click simplicity and invisible operations in database provisioning and lifecycle management.

Nutanix Flow Features & Upcoming Developments | Nutanix

In this post, we lay out the journey for Flow at Nutanix, from AHV, through microsegmentation to “one click” simplicity in your networking and security.

Nutanix Era: Database Management System Software | Nutanix

Nutanix Era automates and simplifies database management. One-click simplicity and invisible operations in database provisioning and lifecycle management.

X-Ray Vision as Nutanix Goes Open Source

Nutanix launched X-Ray in 2017 with a simple premise: to enable organizations to understand, with a high degree of certainty, how various hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms would perform for their mix of applications and use cases under real-world conditions.

Nutanix Introduces Application Mobility for Public Cloud MIgration to Private Clouds

The next release of Xtract adds Amazon Web Services (AWS) for VM migrations from public cloud infrastructure services to on-premises Nutanix Enterprise Clouds.

How to Build a True Multi-Cloud Service

Earlier today, at Nutanix .NEXT in Anaheim, we shared with the 7,000+ attendees that you can now use Frame to provision one-click virtual desktops on your own Nutanix cluster running AHV.

The Virtuous Circle of Corporate Culture

Reputation matters. Especially for fast growing companies like ours. When you are hiring fast, it helps to have your good reputation precede you. That’s why we are really happy to have been named one of the top public cloud companies to work for in 2018 by Glassdoor and Battery Ventures.

Staying Hungry and Exceeding Customer Expectations

At Nutanix, we are what some may say obsessed about our customer and their success. Our EVP of Engineering and Operations recently blogged how we have built customer trust and a reputation for customer satisfaction, a sustained effort that goes back years.

FinTech and Blockchain: Where Silicon Alley meets Hyperconverged Infrastructure

You may not have heard of the term Silicon Alley, but I am sure you are aware of the game-changing financial technology (FinTech) that is emanating from it. “Silicon Alley” was initially coined in the mid-1990s as a way to group media startups housed around the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan.

The NEXT step for Veeam + Nutanix

Last June at the Nutanix .NEXT Conference in Washington, D.C., Veeam announced a new partnership with Nutanix, the leader in enterprise cloud computing and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI).

Unified Data Protection for .NEXT Generation Workloads and Nutanix AHV

Managing the proliferation and performance demands of modern, next-gen workloads can be daunting as businesses continue to accelerate their transition to the multi-cloud world.

Nutanix and Cyxtera Technologies Partner to Offer IT Organizations Compute On-Demand

There are many situations where colocation is preferable to running applications in the public cloud. This is frequently the case in regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services as well as in public sector, manufacturing, and retail.

Highlights of the Inaugural Nutanix 2018 Investor Day

At Nutanix, we like to think that we have a reputation as a disruptor of the status quo, and our recent investor day was no exception. Held at the NASDAQ in New York City on March 12th, our inaugural investor day was sold out, attracting two to three times the crowd typical for a company of this size.

Columbia University and Nutanix Team Up to Mentor IT Executives on Multicloud Era

The multi-cloud era represents a quantum leap that is changing the enterprise IT landscape, creating digital disruption and new ways of thinking about private, public and edge requirements.

Nutanix AOS 5.6 is here along with AFS 3.0.0.1

The Nutanix AOS 5.5 release back in December 2017 unleashed many new features that pushed the envelope on resilience, performance, security, and operational agility.

In Customer Service, It’s Little Things That Matter

If you have followed Nutanix at all over the past few years, you’d know that our commitment to our customers is one of the foundational pillars of our business. We measure our success not on how much product we sell, but on our customers’ belief in us and how we’re able to work with them to solve any challenge they face in the datacenter

HIMSS 2018 over so What's .Next!

One of the largest healthcare IT shows, HIMSS 2018 wrapped up in Las Vegas back in the first week of March and as expected over 1300 companies exhibited in the areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, clinical workflows, and interoperability.

Nutanix to Welcome Minjar to the Family

Today, we are delighted to announce that we have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Minjar Inc. to help enterprises accelerate their multi-cloud journey with Botmetric, Minjar’s solution for intelligent cloud optimization.

The Perils of 3 (or more)-Tier Infrastructure

Once upon a time, a long time ago (in 1999), 3-tier infrastructure was the go to for the needs of applications…from 1999.

Nutanix to Welcome Netsil to the Family

Today we announced that Nutanix has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Netsil Inc., an applications discovery and operations management company that provides state-of-the-art observability in modern distributed cloud environments.

Nutanix Technical Account Managers: Enterprise Cloud Value Drivers

Businesses deploying Enterprise Cloud can benefit from a strategy for maximizing the ROI on their investment: every dollar spent needs to drive genuine operational efficiencies.

Enterprise Workflows for Today’s IT Department

The organizational role of the IT department has expanded far beyond a neatly contained cluster of traditional systems like e-mail and on-prem business applications based on relational databases.

Join Nutanix at HIMSS18: March 5-9

One of the largest shows focused on Healthcare related IT, HIMSS18 is being held from March 5-9, 2018 in Las Vegas.

A New Way to Show Our .heart: College Scholarships

Nutanix extends its .heart corporate social responsibility initiative to financially support women studying advanced computer science and engineering.

Service Providers and the Meaning of “One OS. One Click. Any Cloud.”: Part 1

At Nutanix, we describe our Enterprise Cloud as One OS. One Click. Any Cloud. Because Nutanix software provides a single operating system across multiple cloud environments, it can provide your organization a true ‘public cloud–like’ experience across your entire IT fabric.

Digital Transformation and Role of DevOps

Digital transformation (DX) has triggered a major overhaul in the way organizations think about tried-and-true business models and operationalize day-to-day processes.

Announcing Girls in Tech’s Newest Board Member

Of all the blog posts I’ve written since starting Nutanix, this one is particularly special to me because it deals with an organization that’s helped me on my personal and professional journey.

Partners Complete Us

A recent IDC study indicates that customer IT spending through business partners is forecasted to continue to outpace direct IT spending over the next several years.

Unlocking the ROBO/Edge IT Landscape with the Launch of Nutanix 1-node Cluster

The 1-node Nutanix Enterprise Cloud offering was created with one thing in mind: you – our customers. You told us that a Nutanix offering specifically designed for smaller, remote deployments will radically simplify your ability to deliver virtualized applications at your remote sites.

Modernizing the Energy Industry with Nutanix

The oil and gas sector has been hit very hard over the past few years, due to the steep downturn in crude oil and other commodity prices. You can get a sense of this by looking at the macroeconomics trends in areas with a high density of oil and gas companies.

Capitalising on the Next-Generation Cloud

For success in the channel, flexibility and a willingness to evolve with technological advancements in critical. If we look back just over a year, savvy channel partners were exploiting new paths to revenue by building service practices above the hypervisor.

Once in a Decade… or Once in a Lifetime?

Recently several Wall Street and industry analysts have been sharing their perspective on Nutanix as a growth opportunity.

Omnichannel Retail Success Requires IT Transformation

Today’s consumers are tech savvy. Their shopping experiences often involves some combination of brick-and-mortar, online, mobile, social, and other channels.

Are You Holding Onto Old School Virtualization

No one argues the important role virtualization plays in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions and in how enterprise IT delivers applications and services.

Top Three Themes from Gartner Data Center Conference

Earlier this month, Nutanix met with a number of IT professionals at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas.

The Steady Beat of .heart

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

The Software Path

In our Q1 FY18 earnings call, we formally announced that we would thoughtfully adopt a software-centric approach to our go-to-market and financial reporting.

7 Ways Enterprise Cloud Satisfies the IT Wishlist

What’s on your infrastructure wishlist? Control? Elasticity? Simplicity? Lower costs? And have you found an infrastructure that can tick all the boxes?

The Complete Package: Nutanix AHV certified on Klas Telecom’s Voyager Tactical Data Center

Earlier this year, we joined forces with Klas Telecom to bring Nutanix Enterprise Cloud to the edge with the Voyager Tactical Data Center (TDC) – a rugged, enterprise-grade compute and data storage solution that fits in an airline carry-on compliant rollaway case.

Back to Basics: Options for the Cloud

For some time, Nutanix has been talking about using an Enterprise Cloud to run a wide range of applications and workloads in IT environments, large and small.

Nutanix: Providing Choice, Reducing Costs and Solving State & Local Governments’ Most Pressing IT Challenges

State and local government organizations in the U.S. face daunting IT challenges as they look to improve service delivery while controlling costs. Key obstacles they face are a reliance on older IT systems, lack of skilled employees and inadequate budgets.

Reimagine Object-based Storage in a Multi-cloud Era

Enterprises have massive amounts of unstructured data that is difficult to manage. Learn about the Nutanix object-based storage system that solves this problem.

How Nutanix Marketplace Brings Developers and IT Together

At .NEXT Nice we unveiled new developer-centric services to advance public cloud-like consumption models for enterprises. In this post, we’d like to share our perspective on bringing developers and IT closer – fostering better collaboration and increasing application agility – to produce dramatically better outcomes for the organization.

3 Quick Questions with .NEXT Europe Speaker Fabien Cousteau

Fabien Cousteau is an aquanaut, oceanographic explorer, and environmental advocate. The grandson of pioneering marine conservationist and explorer Jacques Cousteau, Fabien has dedicated his life to learning about and interacting with marine life, and sharing his insights with local communities and children worldwide through the Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center.

3 Quick Questions with .NEXT Europe Speaker Mick Ebeling

Mick Ebeling is the chief innovation instigator and founder of Not Impossible Labs, an award-winning content and technology solution creator based in Los Angeles. Operating under the motto “help one, help many,”

Shining a Light on Diversity: Nutanix at Grace Hopper

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Reducing Oracle Licensing Costs

Decrypting Oracle software licensing has long been the bane of IT shops. There are some steps, however, that customers can take to help contain, and optimize, Oracle licensing.

3 Quick Questions with .NEXT Speaker John McAdam

John McAdam has served as a member of the board of directors at Nutanix since 2015. He also currently serves on the board of F5 Networks, the company for which he was president and CEO from 2000 to 2017. Under his leadership, F5’s annual revenue grew from $100 million to $2 billion.

Nutanix Xtract Introduces VM Migration Simplicity to Hyperconverged Infrastructures

During .Next 2017, held in Washington DC in June, Nutanix announced Xtract for VMs beta release, a key component in simplifying organizations’ Nutanix Enterprise Cloud adoption when there are existing workloads that need to be migrated.

Enhancing Enterprise Agility & Productivity | Nutanix

A study by IDC shows that the biggest benefit for businesses when deploying Nutanix was improved business productivity. Read the report summary here.

Will The Real HCI Market Leader Please Stand Up?

IDC recently published its latest market share statistics for “Converged Infrastructure,” which includes the rapidly-growing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market as a distinct category.

Why We Drink Our Own Champagne

When I joined Nutanix 8 months ago, one of my first objectives was to audit the sprawl of applications and infrastructure typically found in a fast-growing startup, and to standardize and streamline IT operations around the globe. Naturally, being in the infrastructure business, it made a lot of sense to “eat our own dog food” — move all on-prem and hybrid workloads to Nutanix — and be the first customer of everything that comes out of engineering into production.

Nutanix Announces the Industry’s Only Hyperconverged Solution for Cisco UCS Blades

Glassdoor Names Nutanix a Best Place to Interview

Hungry. Humble. Honest. Our values define who we are and play a crucial role in our hiring process. We are hungry to grow and expand with the right talent.

Deploy Applications with Simplicity and Performance using IBM Hyperconverged Systems Powered by Nutanix

As a follow-on to our multi-year partnership announcement on May 16, IBM has released details on their new Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software.

.NEXT Wrap-up: Tech Alliances Edition!

The Nutanix alliances organization supports and executes on Nutanix’s vision to build a simple platform and operating system for the Enterprise Cloud by building the most effective technology partner program and ecosystem.

.NEXT 2017 Product and Technology Announcement Summary

What an amazing week in Washington D.C. for Nutanix .NEXT 2017! Although much of the focus was around our partnership with Google, Nutanix Calm automation and Xi cloud services, we also made plenty of really cool advancements in core Acropolis and AHV features and functions that will be available in a forthcoming release.

.NEXT 2017 D.C.: All the News Fit to Print

One of my favorite phrases from .NEXT 2017 came from SAP’s CEO Bill McDermott, who sat down with our own Dheeraj Pandey and the 3850+ attendees of annual Nutanix user conference and shared, “there is no room for small dreams.”

Partners Shine at .NEXT 2017

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Bright Lights, Big Payoff for Nutanix Channel Partners at .NEXT

With significant solution announcements spotlighted by Nutanix during the .NEXT conference, Nutanix partners may be wondering what this means for their business and customers.

VM Migrations and Database Transformations for Simple Enterprise Cloud Adoption

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix Teams Up with Google Cloud to Fuse Cloud Environments for Enterprise Apps

Humans and computers have evolved in very similar ways… although this isn’t obvious at first glance.

A Brave New World

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix Leap – A New Approach to Cloud Services

Today we proudly announced Xi Cloud Services, a native cloud extension to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform that powers more than 6000 end-customers around the globe.

App Centric Infrastructure for Any Cloud

Today we announced Nutanix Calm, a generational addition coming to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, providing application automation and lifecycle management spanning cloud environments.

Nutanix Leap – A New Approach to Cloud Services

Today we proudly announced Xi Cloud Services, a native cloud extension to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform that powers more than 6000 end-customers around the globe.

Expanding the Nutanix and Dell EMC Partnership

The Nutanix and Dell EMC® partnership has been an enormous success. We would like to thank our joint customers for choosing our combined infrastructure for their enterprise clouds.

Why It’s Time to Lay the Traditional Partner Programme to Rest

For too long, IT vendors have dictated to their partners how they should run their businesses. They have built channel programs that are inflexible and prescriptive in nature.

Nutanix Selected as One of Computerworld’s 100 Best Places to Work in IT

What an honor it is to be included in Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT for 2017! I’m proud of our team and proud of this achievement on behalf of Nutanix.

One-Click Cloud Integration for Citrix Workspace Appliance

Citrix and Nutanix recently announced One-Click Cloud integration as part of the Citrix Workspace Appliance (CWA) program at Synergy 2017.

Columbia University IT Visionary Heads to .NEXT

An Interview with Dr. Art Langer, Director of the Center for Technology Management at Columbia University

Showing some .heart at .NEXT!

As you may have heard, this year’s .NEXT features forward-thinking business luminaries, tech gurus, and hoards of IT pros all under one roof. These people will inspire your minds, but we want to make sure we also inspire your hearts!

Nutanix at Citrix Synergy 2017: Expanding on a Solid Relationship

We are ready to head out to Citrix Synergy 2017 next week. Our bags are packed and our demos are built and we will be showing up in style as a proud Platinum Sponsor (booth #204), with a larger booth, demo stations, and a Nutanix theater.

Nutanix and Citrix Pave Way for Hybrid Cloud VDI with Nutanix InstantON For Citrix Cloud

We understand your desire to take advantage of the benefits of VDI. But we also know you just aren’t sure how to easily get there because we hear the same thing all the time.

Why HCI (Nutanix) Truly is a Great Fit for Healthcare Applications

I recently read a blog post from a storage vendor attempting to make the case that HCI (Hyper-converged Infrastructure) is not a good fit for healthcare. They used their strategic partner’s HCI solution, VMware VSAN as the example, but tried to apply their reasoning to all HCI.

Further Liberation of the Data Center

With the rise of open systems in the 1980s, IBM helped unfurl new freedom in datacenter computing. Moving beyond the proprietary silos of prior generation minicomputers and mainframes, IBM pioneered the open systems of UNIX interoperability with POSIX-compliant software stacks.

Sivantos Group Heads to .NEXT 2017

Sivantos Group is one of the world’s top manufacturers of hearing aids. The corporation was spun off from Siemens Audiology Solutions in 2015. Sivantos now employs over 5,000 people in more than 25 countries, and its international sales departments serve customers in another 95 countries.

Nutanix Playlist: Journey to Dell EMC World 2017

Nutanix is so excited to be joining the fourth consecutive Dell (EMC) World that we decided to celebrate with a fun-filled Journey-themed experience for our customers and partners.

Making a Case for Enterprise Cloud: A Perspective from Neuralytix

The Cloud is a wonderful thing Scalable, flexible, and cost effective from the outset—it’s seems to be everything enterprises today are prioritizing.

Upgrade to AOS 5.1 Today!

We just released the 5.1 version of our AOS software last friday, packed with several goodies that you will love.

Nutanix continues streak of Customer Support Excellence with a 2016 Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 90 Again!

We are thrilled to announce we have been awarded the Omega North Face Award for excellence in service delivery for the fourth year in a row. Our Net Promoter Score (NPS) – the gold standard for measuring customer loyalty – has a weighted average of 90 over these four years.

Improving Nutanix Customer Experience With Analytics

Ever since Nutanix pioneered Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and made the case for the Enterprise Cloud, we’ve stood out from the competition. We differentiate ourselves with our superior product and exceptional product support, as shown by our continued streak of a 90+ Net Promoter Score (NPS).

Enterprise Clouds, Private Cloud Challenges and More

Learn about the fundamental attributes of private clouds and the issue with private clouds owing to their hardware-defined architectural legacy.

.NEXT Conference: What’s In It for Partners

As a forward-thinking Nutanix partner focused on delivering the best results for your customers, you might tend to be a bit of an overachiever at times.

And The Beat Goes On

Since launching .heart last September, we’ve rolled out a number of programs and initiatives that continue to emphasize our goals of giving back and encouraging gender diversity in tech.

Nutanix Xpress: The Little HCI Engine That Could

This morning on May 24th, 2016, we announced Nutanix Xpress – our first product line dedicated just to small and medium-sized businesses.

Act II: Thinking Global, Acting Local

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix at HIMSS: St. Joseph Health and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Buy Less Nutanix!

Cornerstone Home Lending Upgrades with Citrix and Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix Continues to Deliver on the Promise of Invisible Infrastructure for Citrix Environments

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Making More with Citrix and Nutanix: A Guide for Channel Partners at Citrix Summit

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

The 5.0 Release is Here

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

One Year in with the Lenovo-Nutanix Partnership

I am here at the Gartner Datacenter Conference in Las Vegas and am reflecting back on this past year since Lenovo and Nutanix announced a joint partnership to deliver a Lenovo-branded hyperconverged appliance powered by Nutanix Enterprise Cloudsoftware.

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform Just Got Better

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

OGD Heads to .NEXT EMEA 2016

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Delen Private Bank Heads to .NEXT Vienna 2016

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Listening to Healthcare CIOs

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Helkama Emotor Group Heads to .NEXT Vienna 2016

We recently interviewed Kim to ask about his company’s Nutanix implementation, and to see if he is planning to attend .NEXT in Vienna this year. Here are some highlights of our conversation.

Consumer Grade Problem Diagnosis with Prism Integration for NCC

Despite the best laid plans, incidents occur that can impact the services delivered by IT. If the issue is not easily diagnosed using system alerts, then a variety of techniques must be used.

App-Centric Assessments with SQL Server Xplorer

Nutanix has developed and leverages a number of software automations and best practices designed to ensure that you not only get the best possible performance and availability but also leverage the least amount of resources to do so.

Turtle Entertainment Heads to .NEXT EMEA 2016

We recently interviewed Thomas to ask about his company’s Nutanix implementation, and to see what he has planned for .NEXT this year. Here are some highlights of our conversation.

Dell EMC Is Going Big at .NEXT Europe

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Recognizing a Transformational Force in Government

Take into consideration the history of technology and the decades worth of sprawling infrastructure, from the mainframe to the client-server/distributed computing era and beyond, and you get a sense of the magnitude of the situation that Mr. Scott is trying to transform.

Take the NEXT step Towards the Enterprise Cloud at our .NEXT Conference in Vienna!

This year more than 2,500 leading IT professionals joined us in June for the unforgettable. .NEXT Las Vegas conference. Now the only event dedicated to the latest in data center and enterprise cloud technologies is coming to Europe for the first time.

Gartner Magic Quadrant: So nice to be a leader twice!

At Nutanix, 2016 has been an exceptional year of growth and success. In just 10 short months, we’ve exceeded 3,000 customers across 90+ countries, grown to more than 2,000 employees, surpassed one billion dollars in lifetime sales

Putting the Focus on End-users: Citrix XenServer and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform

NTNX: Disrupt. Reinvent. Repeat.

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Piece of Mind for your Workloads with VM-Centric Flash Mode Support

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud solutions employ a variety of advanced mechanisms designed to deliver the highest possible application performance and ensure that the underlying infrastructure remains invisible.

On-Demand Deployment for your Databases with Oracle VM and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

Businesses of all sizes rely on Oracle databases to run applications that power their most essential IT business systems. As a result, IT administrators want to be sure that they have correctly deployed and configured the database.

Nutanix Launches .heart – Our New CSR Program

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Gear Up for the Enterprise Cloud at Ignite

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Financial modeling in the era of hyperconvergence and cloud

Meaningful and Real-Time Insights for your Workloads

While creating enterprise clouds and infrastructure that are invisible and easy to manage is a core focus at Nutanix, it does not mean that there is any compromise in informing users with useful data.

Comprehensive API Support for your Backup Software

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Advanced VM Placement Intelligence: Allows your VMs to Focus on Running Workloads

Keeping data close to the compute has been one of the salient features of the Nutanix architecture and the Distributed Storage Fabric, or DSF.

File Restoration on Your Terms with Enterprise Cloud Self Service File Restore

Today at the .NEXT On-Tour, we are bringing continuous innovation to the Big Apple, New York City. Simple, integrated backup should be at the core of every Enterprise Cloud strategy.

While the Dust Settles, Dell EMC XC Series Rolls On

Over the last few months since the announcement of Dell acquiring EMC in the largest technology acquisition in history, there has been many conjecture articles written about the future of the Nutanix OEM partnership with newly formed, Dell Technologies.

Back to Basics

I was just thinking how young a company we still are. Nutanix was incorporated in Delaware on September 22nd, 2009. It took us another four months to

Nutanix Storage Only Node: Large File Services Repositories

Running AFS on the NX-6035C-G5 storage only nodes can provide another use case for Nutanix customers starting to migrate to the Enterprise Cloud Platform.

Serve Files with Enterprise Cloud Agility, Security, and Availability with Acropolis File Services

We are happy to announce that Acropolis File Services (AFS) is planned to be generally available (GA) in the Asterix software release.

VM Deployment at Enterprise Cloud Speed: Simplified Management and Silent Installation for Nutanix Guest Tools

Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) are a set of software features installed within virtual machines for the purpose of enabling advanced functionality.

Prism on your Terms: Local Language Support

Early in Nutanix’s history, we were faced with a choice to travel one of two paths. The first was to focus on building our business close to Nutanix headquarters and establish ourselves in North America.

No-Click Data Center Site Failovers Powered by Metro Availability Witness

Nutanix Metro Availability is a continuous availability solution which enables synchronous replication and stretched clustering capabilities for Nutanix environments.

Powering Enterprise Apps and Services with a Radically Different Approach: A Conversation with Hexaware Technologies

IT organizations face significant challenges in providing applications on-demand, while ensuring high uptimes and responsiveness. Legacy IT infrastructure can no longer cater to evolving business needs, especially in cases where IT acts as a cost center rather than an enabler.

Fun and Games with Cisco®

Cisco® recently removed Nutanix from of its Solution Partner Program (SPP). Cisco® Partner Certification is done through this program. The termination surprisingly followed the successful conclusion of working with very cooperative, and enthusiastic Cisco® teams (Engineering, Product Management, Technical Marketing, Sales) to certify Nutanix’s software on UCS®.

Shared Ambition

This blog is about the wonderful news of Nutanix, PernixData and Calm.io coming together as one company. Let me first start with Nutanix and our ambition.

A Breath of Fresh Air for Your Remote and Branch Offices

Traditionally, the main datacenter has been the center of gravity for most business IT organizations. After all, that’s where the datacenter is and that’s where most of IT staff works

Nutanix and Cisco UCS: On Responsibility and Change

Innovation in business never rests. It demands that all functions in organizations must constantly adapt if the business is to thrive over time.

Putting the Infrastructure in VDI

VMworld US 2016 (Aug 28-31), held in Las Vegas, is coming upon us beckoning attendees to the vision of “Be TOMORROW”. Swing by the Nutanix booth #2311 at VMworld to win prizes and attend multiple informative sessions including ones on End User Computing, VDI and Nutanix products and solutions.

Fasten Your Seatbelts: It’s Time To Take Off For VMworld US 2016

It’s that time of the year again! VMworld US 2016 is around the corner and there is nothing (other than our own .NEXT!) like the energy of over 20,000 people in Las Vegas talking technology. As always, Nutanix has a lot going on both on the show floor and off.

Why hardware-defined can’t keep up

Learn why proprietary hardware, once essential to protecting a company’s innovations, now hinders – or even destroys – a manufacturer’s ability to compete.

Nutanix and Crystal Group Extend Enterprise Cloud Beyond the Datacenter

Servers are most often deployed in datacenters where the environment is closely controlled. Temperature, humidity, dust, and vibration are rarely a concern. But not all server deployments have it so easy.

Nutanix .NEXT 2016: It's a Wrap

What an amazing month it has been! Looking at the numbers from Nutanix .NEXT(held June 20-22 at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas), no one would suspect that this was only our second annual user conference – with 2500+ attendees, 67 breakout sessions, and over 120 speakers.

.NEXT in Vegas and the Wheel at the Party

This past week in Las Vegas, we were honored and humbled to host more than 2,500 guests at our .NEXT conference, up from ~960 at our inaugural event in Mia

Nutanix .NEXT 2016 Announcements: Innovation is Just a Click Away

Today at the Nutanix 2016 .NEXT conference, we made several exciting announcements. You can read the announcements in this press release.

The .Next 2016 Keynote Demo: Virtual and Physical Workloads on AHV

What is the next step in the enterprise cloud? It’s the ability to run all your workloads, virtual and physical, on the same easy-to-manage, secure, and high-performance infrastructure.

Parallels Heads to .NEXT

Parallels is a global leader in cross-platform solutions best known for its Parallels Desktop for Mac virtualization software.

AppSense Heads to .NEXT

Last year Nutanix exploded onto the hyperconverged infrastructure landscape with their inaugural user conference Nutanix .NEXT and the subsequent 100 city roadshow.

Dell Returning to .NEXT

We recently sat down to interview John Mannix, marketing manager for Software Defined Storage at Dell, to discuss his company’s participation at the quickly approaching .NEXT conference in Las Vegas, June 20-22.

Intel Heads to .NEXT

Ran Kurup manages business strategy in Intel’s Storage Group. In this role, he drives the group’s long term strategy and investments in the ecosystem including the start-up and research community.

Bauer Built Tire Heads to .NEXT

An Interview with Charlie Kavaloski, Director of IT at Bauer Built Tire

Cardlytics Heads to .NEXT

An Interview with Biju Samuel, Director of IT at Cardlytics

Lenovo Heads to .NEXT

An Interview with Radhika Krishnan, General Manager of Converged/Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and Networking at Lenovo

Illumio Brings Visibility 2.0 to .NEXT

I sat down with Bryan Pelham, Senior Director of Business Development at Illumio, to find out more about Illumio’s approach to visibility and security inside the data center, and what the company is planning to do at this month’s .NEXT conference.

Don’t Let the Tail Wag the Dog

Allowing your legacy IT infrastructure to dictate (or even guide) your future IT purchasing decisions is a bit like the tail wagging the dog.

Making Your Case with ROI

I am thrilled to be moderating the panel, Making Your Case with ROI, at Nutanix .NEXT at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas, June 22nd.

Brocade at .NEXT

We sat down with Doug Gibson, Director of Strategic Alliances at Brocade. Doug leads Brocade’s Alliance efforts with Hyperconverged and Flash Storage Partners.

Infrastructure as the Great Differentiator

In the recent past, organizations viewed data management as a cost-center, something to be managed as a necessary-evil. IT kept track of what happened or simply enabled other parts of the business to make it happen.

Moving the Nutanix-Citrix Product Integration for AHV to the Next Level

Last year, Nutanix announced an exciting partnership with Citrix, intended to deliver our mutual customers the best possible Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop experience at the most optimal price point, leveraging the integrated AHV hypervisor within the Nutanix Acropolis platforms.

Mellanox Headed to .NEXT

We recently sat down with Kevin Deierling, VP of Marketing at Mellanox. Kevin will be speaking at Nutanix .NEXT, which runs from June 20th to 22nd at the Wynn Resort, Las Vegas.

Knowledge everywhere! Our experience at Citrix Synergy

Citrix Synergy 2016 was a treat to attend for both technical and business attendees from across the globe (77% US, 18% EMEA, 5% APJ customers and partners).

Citrix Heads to .NEXT

Sean Donahue is a product marketing manager, responsible for Windows application delivery at Citrix. One of his key roles is interfacing with Citrix’s strategic partners, including Nutanix.

June 06, 2019

We sat down with Rolland Miller, Director of Solution Architecture at Rubrik. We chatted about the upcoming .NEXT conference in Las Vegas June 20-22

VMTurbo Heads to .NEXT

VMTurbo products help customers guarantee application performance, maximizing infrastructure and human efficiency and positively impacting their companies’ business goals.

Nutanix .NOW 2016: Partner Awards

Nutanix just wrapped up an exciting week in Las Vegas where we held our second annual .NEXT User Conference, and our third annual Nutanix

Nutanix Xpress: Warm Welcome to the Global 200,000

This morning on May 24th, 2016, we announced Nutanix Xpress – our first product line dedicated just to small and medium sized businesses. Why In the last 4

County of San Mateo Heads to .NEXT

Jon Walton is the CIO for San Mateo County, California. We interviewed Jon for a Nutanix case study last year.

Delivering the Enterprise Cloud Platform

It’s great to catch up with you. By the way, congratulations on your new role leading the Lenovo Data Center Group.

Virtualize Student Applications and Look to the Future

At Nutanix, we love our customers. They are the reason why we innovate and strive to achieve and continuously improve customer satisfaction.

Nutanix at Citrix Synergy 2016: Enterprise Clouds for Applications and Desktops

2016 has been a very busy year for the VDI solution team here at Nutanix. In addition to VDI focused events and programs, including the widely popular

Langs Building Supplies ICT Manager heads to .NEXT

An Interview with Matthew Day, ICT & Support Manager at Langs Building Supplies

Hallmark Business Connections @ .NEXT

An Interview with Bob Dussault, Director of Infrastructure and Information Security Officer at Hallmark Business Connections

F5 @ .NEXT

Interview with Frank Strobel, Sr. Strategic BDM at F5 F5 Networks and Nutanix partner to bring the power of the enterprise cloud and software-defined apps.

Service Providers: Profitable Services Built on Top of Enterprise Clouds

Cloud service providers are facing greater challenges than ever before, ranging from increased competition to commoditization of services, to eroding margins.

Believers, Fence-sitters, and Naysayers

The Burden of Responsibility As we unveil our 2nd annual user conference, .NEXT Vegas (Jun 20-22), I wanted to share the why behind the event.

The Promise of the Enterprise Cloud: Changing IT to Inspiration and Transformation

A conversation between Howard Ting, Nutanix CMO, and Madhu Matta, Lenovo Vice President, Server and Storage Product Marketing, about the frontiers of data center infrastructure.

Nutanix Advances Enterprise Cloud Strategy

We are proud to announce Acropolis File Services (AFS), a web-scale native file serving solution built using the same technology that powers Nutanix Enterp

Raising the Bar and Pushing the Envelope on Performance

The release of Acropolis 4.6 illustrates how the constant drive for innovation at Nutanix is paying off big in performance.

Paying it forward with Nutanix Xtribe

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Paying it forward with Nutanix Xtribe

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Healthcare Organizations Standardize on Nutanix for Enterprise Cloud Simplicity

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

An interview with Steven Parrish, Chief Information Officer, Mater Health Services

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

An interview with Justin Mason, ITM Operations Manager, University of Canberra

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

An interview with Dave Thompson, Group Manager of IT, Sealord Group

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix Acropolis and Prism 4.6: The Rise of the Enterprise Cloud

We announced the latest release of the Nutanix software – Release 4.6 – this morning. As with every release from Nutanix, this one is packed with new features and big improvements that will get customers excited.

An interview with Tim Pinnock, ICT Manager, Inaburra School

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

An interview with Ricardo Alberto, Chief Technology Officer, Commonwealth Treasury

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

“Holistic” Security for your Data Center Stack

Drones introduce a host of new security concerns that governments aren’t readily prepared for! Remember this visual, whereby the White House perimeter security was breached.

8 Reasons Why Moore’s Law is Essential for Evaluating Enterprise Storage Solutions

Take the NEXT step on the journey to invisible infrastructure at the second annual .NEXT Conference!

First Nutanix made storage and compute invisible. Then we made virtualization invisible. This year will be about the Enterprise Cloud.

How Moore’s Law is Accelerating the Adoption of Hyperconvergence

TCO vs. ROI: How to Evaluate the Benefits of Next-Generation Storage Technologies

The Tesla Effect – How Hyperconvergence Solves Enterprise Storage Challenges

Softchoice heading into 2016 leading with Emerging Partner of the Year, Nutanix

Nutanix is both humbled and honored to be named Softchoice Corporation “Emerging Partner of the Year” last week during Softchoice’s Launch 2016 event in Toronto.

The End of the Beginning

As our partner Lenovo opens up orders today for their HX series appliance running Nutanix software this marks the further emergence of a new stage in data center transformation.

Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure Enables BAE Systems to Deliver Desktops as a Service

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix at the Gartner Datacenter Conference 2015: Elevating IT to Business Outcomes

The Gartner Data Center Conference is underway in Las Vegas, and Nutanix is excited to be here again as an event sponsor!

IFC Logistics' Journey to Invisible Infrastructure

Phillip Beal recently sat down with us to discuss IFC’s transition from on-premises IT to a managed service from Nutanix partner, Advantage Technology Solutions.

The Rise of the Apprentice

Although there is nothing hideous about VMs and Containers, with the newest installment of the Star Wars saga imminent, it is somewhat timely to draw an analogy from the dark forces.

7 Reasons Why AHV is the Next Generation Hypervisor

7 Reasons Why AHV is the Next Generation Hypervisor

Is Your Organization “VDI Ready”?

Nutanix and Lenovo

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

The Role of Flash in the Datacenter

Protecting Enterprise Applications in (“Nutanix”) Style

Now Generally Available: Nutanix Acropolis 4.5

The latest release of the Nutanix software, Acropolis 4.5, is now available to all our customers.

Supported and Certified: Nutanix Invisible Infrastructure for SAP NetWeaver

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix Technology Champion 2016 Applications Are Open

We are excited to announce applications for the 2016 Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) program are now open.

Metadata Management & Distributed File Storage | Nutanix

Nutanix focuses on highly scalable, reliable systems architecture. Engineer Rishi Bhardwaj discusses some of the features of the Nutanix metadata store.

Metadata Management & Distributed File Storage | Nutanix

Nutanix focuses on highly scalable, reliable systems architecture. Engineer Rishi Bhardwaj discusses some of the features of the Nutanix metadata store.

Nutanix and Citrix Workspace Cloud

On Aug 12th, we announced a new phase of our ongoing partnership with Citrix. The goal was to offer our joint customers better value and an enhanced experience through tight integration of Citrix’s entire product portfolio with Nutanix Acropolis.

Making It All Work Together: Nutanix Elevate Alliance Partners at VMworld 2015

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Invisible Infrastructure and the ability to add Invisible Security

A hard choice facing organizations and their CIOs today is the decision between continuing to invest in on-premises data centers, embracing outsourced cloud resources, or a combination of both.

What do Tapas, Sangria and Nutanix Have in Common?

We are excited to be a Gold Sponsor again at VMworld Barcelona. It’s going to be a great venue to continue the discussions we’ve had with the numerous IT professionals who are on their journey to invisible infrastructure.

It's a Wrap for VMworld 2015 US!

This past week, the Nutanix team hit Moscone Center in San Francisco along with over 20,000 IT pros to Elevate IT at VMworld 2015 US. We met with thousands of attendees about their journey to invisible infrastructure, and we had a blast during the show!

It’s Time to Elevate IT at VMworld 2015!

It is VMworld San Francisco time again! We are delighted to be a Gold Sponsor again this year and enable the thousands of attendees on their journeys to invisible infrastructure.

6 Nested Virtualization Resources To Get You Started With Community Edition

We announced the release of community edition on June 8, 2015, and the community response has been tremendous. Enterprise IT professionals and tech enthusiasts are able to deploy the leading hyperconverged technology in their home labs and development/test environments.

6 Nested Virtualization Resources To Get You Started With Community Edition

We announced the release of community edition on June 8, 2015, and the community response has been tremendous. Enterprise IT professionals and tech enthusiasts are able to deploy the leading hyperconverged technology in their home labs and development/test environments.

How Often Have You Saved the Day with Your Coding Skills?

It’s 4:45 pm on a Friday before a long weekend, your manager stops by your cubicle and has a last minute task for the team that needs to be done before everyone leaves for the day.

Erasure Coding-X (EC-X): Predictably Increase Usable Storage Capacity

Now that the dust has settled from our inaugural .NEXT user conference, its time to go into the details of a technology that we briefly discussed called Erasure Coding–X (EC-X). Customers can now deploy EC-X in non-production environments by upgrading to Nutanix Operating System

The Sacred Scale-out Principle and the Art of Building Distributed Systems

The age of monolithic scale-up systems is coming to an end. As applications span multiple hosts and multiple datacenters, the underlying infrastructure needs to the redesigned.

Nutanix vs. VSAN Performance—Part 4 (or why Chuck and EMC are Deathly Afraid of Us)

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Customer Delight Has Its Rewards

In addition to the many exciting and game changing announcements from .NEXT, we continue to make news in other area’s as well, and I thought I would highlight a few for you, and never losing sight of staying hungry, honest and humble.

The Power of "Just Right": Nutanix and VMware Solutions for End-User Computing

The Swedish language has a word “lagom” that means “not too much, not too little”, or loosely interpreted as “just right.”

Nutanix .NOW: Partner Awards

Nutanix just wrapped up an exhilarating week in Miami where we held our first annual .NEXT User Conference, and our second annual Nutanix .NOW Partner Summit.

NOS 4.1.3 is now Generally Available

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Welcome To The Era of Invisible Infrastructure, Here Today With Nutanix

A little more than five years ago, Nutanix set out to raise the bar for enterprise infrastructure by rethinking storage and compute for a virtualized world.

Momentum with Microsoft – Nutanix Announces Significant Achievements with Hybrid Cloud and Enterprise Applications at .NEXT

In an age where hybrid cloud, IaaS, and multi-cloud strategy aren’t just buzzwords, but fundamentals of enterprise computing, Microsoft and Nutanix are helping a rapidly increasing

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Meets Hyperscale with Tectonic

Today at Nutanix .NEXT Conference, we will demo Tectonic, CoreOS’ platform that combines the CoreOS stack plus Kubernetes, on Nutanix. When technologies like Nutanix come together with technologies like Tectonic, the promise of container technology is easier to grasp.

Two Cities, Thousands of Conversations, and One Best in Show

May is one of the busiest months on the IT conference circuit. Tens of thousands of attendees come together to learn about trends and the latest and greatest in the industry.

Multi-Vendor Hybrid Cloud Solution

Ever since AWS took off in 2006, cloud computing has been growing in maturity and adoption. The adoption rates have steadily been increasing, and in its 2015 State of the Cloud report, RightScale found that 93% of organizations have already adopted cloud in some form – private, public or hybrid.

Nutanix Community Edition: Because Xiaomi

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Wipro on Why .NEXT

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

EMC, the enemy lies within

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Tata Consultancy Services on .NEXT & Driving Success

Nutanix sat down with Raman Venkatraman, who is a Vice President at one of our key system integration partners, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

Join Nutanix in Sunny Orlando, Florida for Citrix Synergy 2015

Nutanix is excited to be a Gold sponsor at Citrix Synergy 2015, and the excitement continues to build.

Partners Betting on Nutanix for the Triple Crown

As springtime hits, it’s always fun to watch the celebration, pageantry, and traditions that surround the Triple Crown in horse racing (The only three horse races I watch for the year).

Next-Generation Serviceability: The Four Keys from Nutanix

The serviceability of any product relies on four fundamental actions: (i) observe, (ii) inform, (iii) fix, and (iv) learn. While most products attempt to implement these in some form or another, very few get it right. Today I would like to share with you the secret sauce required to build the most serviceable system in the world.

All-Things .NEXT — A Look at the Conference from an Intern's Perspective

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Healthcare, Nutanix, Dell, and beyond…

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix is Now Validated for SolarWinds

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Choice Solutions Makes Nutanix Its Top Choice

An Interview with Jim Steinlage, President and CEO of Choice Solutions.

Choice Solutions Uses Nutanix to Mitigate Infrastructure Obstacles & Datacenter Politics

Choice Solutions has long been adept at getting in on the ground floor of disruptive technologies. Choice became partners with Citrix in 1993 and has been a Platinum Partner since 1997.

Trek Bicycle Cycles off to .NEXT

An Interview with Brian Oamek, Senior Systems Architect at Trek Bicycle

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Getting Educated at .NEXT

An Interview with Tim Schmidt, Engineering Services Manager at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

See How Web-Scale Wishes Came True for Winners of the Nutanix Non-Profit Makeover Project

Working in the world of corporate IT it’s not often that we get to see technology actually making a difference to people’s day to day lives.

Nutanix Achieves Citrix Ready Certification For ShareFile Enterprise

ShareFile gives users true enterprise-class file sync and share data service across all corporate and personal mobile devices, while giving IT all the control it needs.

Heading off to .NEXT

Darren Ashley, Business Development Manager at BEarena (and Nutanix NTC)

Moving from Mainframe to Web-Scale with Nutanix

An Interview with Jeff Babcock, IT Technical Infrastructure Manager at Empire Life

Getting Ready for .NEXT

An Interview with Derik Davenport, Network Engineer, Serco Inc.

Getting Sirius about .NEXT

An Interview with Steve Dowling, Director of Converged Infrastructure at Sirius Computer Solutions.

Swisslos and Nutanix .NEXT

An Interview with Joris Vuffray, Head of Network and System Management at Swisslos.

Building Things That People Like: An Encore

Exactly 4 years ago to this day, I wrote a blog called “Building things that people like”. That blog was about portability, about customer choice, about a contrarian view that professed building apps and platforms that were not tightly coupled with each other

Building Things That People Like

In the last fortnight, I’ve had the opportunity to read two very contrasting articles on the Internet. One from The Economist on a humbler Microsoft, and another from an EMC blogger Chuck Hollis arguing exactly the opposite on why a single stack matters more than anything else.

Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX): Why We Built It and Why It Matters

On Tuesday March 17th we launched the NPX Program. I’ve conducted interviews, answered requests for information, and read many, many comments since the announcement—and the most common question has been, “Why did Nutanix build this?”

Nutanix at CeBIT 2015

Nutanix is excited to be at CeBIT 2015 in Hannover, Germany March 16-20. This is going to be a great event, so if you are attending the conference, make sure to join us in Hall 2, Booth B29!

Nutanix Teaming with Dell at WHD.global 2015

Later this month at WHD.global 2015 in Europe, Nutanix will participate in our first WorldHostingsDays event alongside our partner Dell.

Second Wave of Dell XC Web-scale Converged Appliances Hits the Street

It’s been slightly over a quarter since the official launch of the Dell XC Web-scale Converged Appliance and Wyse DataCenter Appliance XC at Dell World, and the partnership continues to thrive.

Delivering Secure and Scalable Desktop as a Service

Security and flexibility don’t often end up in the same sentence, especially when it comes to delivering IT as a service.

Hardware Platform Updates – Haswell Refresh and Configure to Order Support for NX-3000 Series

We are excited to announce a couple of big changes to Nutanix’s line of hardware platforms. Starting March 15th 2015, we will support Intel’s Haswell processors.

Nutanix wins Omega NorthFace Award for exceptional Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty for Second Year in a Row

It gives me immense pleasure to share with you some recent great news! For the second year in a row, Nutanix has won the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from The Omega Management Group.

.NEXT Conference Agenda and Call for Proposals Is LIVE!

.NEXT 2015 (#NEXTConf) promises an unrivaled conference experience for the web-scale and hyperconverged datacenter infrastructure industry, by offering four engaging breakout tracks full of educational sessions.

Nutanix NEXT Podcast Series Update: IaaS, Certifications, Big Data, and More

How quickly times flies! We launched the Nutanix NEXT community podcast series in December, and our weekly following continues to increase thanks to you, the community!

Announcing General Availability of Nutanix Operating System 4.1

The latest release of the Nutanix Operating System, NOS 4.1, is available today. This release offers rich enterprise capabilities to meet the needs of the most demanding applications and critical infrastructure requirements in the datacenter.

Nutanix Gears up for PEX to Show Partners How to Win with Hyperconverged Infrastructure

With the converged marketing growing and technology professionals looking at their datacenters in a new way, 2015 promises to be a fantastic time to be selling to IT.

Joseph Chamberlain College Dramatically Improves End User Experience and Infrastructure Agility with Nutanix

It’s more than 12 months since we at JCC took the decision to break the mould around deploying traditional data centre equipment to support the College’s user base, and to move into the brave new world of hyperconverged systems.

Nutanix Secures Commanding 52% Share of Hyperconverged Market

Over the last few years, the IT infrastructure market has been on a path of rapid evolution and consolidation, and 2014 was a huge year for storage and hyperconverged systems.

The Nutanix Plugin for Citrix XenDesktop

Over the years I’ve spend a lot of time together with clients on how to implement their desktop strategy. It often starts with questions, such as what are the characteristics of the organization?

Nutanix at Citrix Summit 2015 – Join Us and Plug into the Easiest Way to Sell Desktop Virtualization!

Nutanix is excited to be a Gold sponsor at Citrix Summit 2015, and the excitement continues to build. This is going to be a great event, so if you are attending Summit this week, make sure to join us!

New Taneja Group TCO study reveals Nutanix Hyperconverged infrastructure provides 55% lower OPEX

With the recent news around EMC acquiring VCE, we’ve found ourselves on the receiving end of a great deal of questions from industry experts, press and media and end-users, who want to know more about the difference in the technology from Nutanix and VCE.

The 2014 Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC)

I am honored to report that we received over 80 detailed Nutanix Technology Professionals (NTC) Program applications.

Nutanix – The First Five Years and Beyond

Over the last five years, we have made significant progress in our journey, thanks to our incredible ecosystem of believers – the community of employees, customers, partners, investors, analysts, and technology advocates, who have been core to our success, every step of the way.

This Web-Scale Wish Will Come True, Thanks to YOU!

The global community has spoken with thousands of votes to determine the Grand Prize recipient of Web-Scale Wish, and we are thrilled to announce that CLASS Ltd., has garnered the most community votes and will receive a Web-Scale Datacenter Makeover in 2015!

Web-Scale Wish Community Voting Is Live TODAY ONLY – Support Your Favorite Non-Profit!

Through the community-driven Web-Scale Wish Datacenter Makeover Project, Nutanix is gifting over $500,000 in web-scale technology to deserving non-profit organizations.

Simply Secure

Our SecDL’s defense in-depth model enables automated testing for security during development as well as threat modeling to assess and mitigate customer risk from code changes.

Announcing the Finalists! Whose Web-Scale Wish Will Come True?

As you know, the goal of the Web-Scale Wish Datacenter Makeover Project is to gift more than $500,000 in web-scale technology to deserving non-profit organizations.

Web-Scale Wish Cause Spotlight – Roy Maas’ Youth Alternatives

Through the Web-Scale Wish Project, Nutanix will donate up to $500,000 of web-scale products and services to worthy non-profit organizations chosen by you, the community!

End of Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003: Why You Should Care & What You Should Do

You are most likely aware that, as of July 14, 2015, Microsoft will no longer support Windows Server 2003. If you have one of the estimated 24 million servers running Windows Server 2003, you should be concerned.

Get Ready for the NEXT Community Podcast Series!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the weekly NEXT Community Podcast! This 30-min informal and unscripted discussion about web-scale IT covers news, current events, and the industry updates that YOU need to know about.

Nutanix Named a CDW Partner of the Year

Nutanix is honored to have been named a CDW Partner of the Year last week at CDW’s Partner Summit in Las Vegas.

Web-Scale Wish Cause Spotlight – Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno County

Through the Web-Scale Wish Project, Nutanix will donate up to $500,000 of web-scale products and services to worthy non-profit organizations chosen by you, the community!

Web-Scale Wish Cause Spotlight – The Guelph Public Library

Through the Web-Scale Wish Project, Nutanix will donate up to $500,000 of web-scale products and services to worthy non-profit organizations chosen by you, the community!

Radically Simple Hypervisor Upgrades

Many of the key product and feature decisions at Nutanix are driven by our mission to deliver uncompromising simplicity to the enterprise datacenter. NOS 4.0 release announced in May

Web-Scale Wish Cause Spotlight: Hillcroft College

The right technology in the right hands has the power to change lives and organizations. This holiday season, Nutanix will give web-scale converged infrastructure to the non-profit organizations chosen by you, our community!

Designing Web-Scale Datacenters Just Got Easier

Nutanix is the leading hyperconverged solution for server and desktop virtualization. Over the years, we have developed an extensive depth and breadth of internal intelligence on how to size and scope virtualized workloads, including VDI deployments and virtualized business applications.

Size and Design Your Web-Scale Datacenter with Nutanix Sizer

Do you know the best Nutanix appliance model for running your specific application workloads? Do you know how many Nutanix nodes you need for optimal capacity and performance?

Thoughts on Being a Web-Scale Wish Community Judge

As a technology consultant, I have the opportunity to work in different customer environments all the time. I interact with interesting people, and solve unique and difficult problems, while working on the latest technologies.

Dell XC Series Launches – and Nutanix Partners Benefit

Adaptive vs. Inline/Always-on Deduplication

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

The Perfect Partnership: A Q&A with Dell and Nutanix

Today at Dell World, Dell and Nutanix announced the general availability of the Dell XC Series Web-scale Converged Appliances. The new appliances are the only solution on the market that integrates a Tier 1 Dell hardware platform with the simplicity and scalability of Nutanix web-scale technology.

Get XCited for Dell World Austin 2014!

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Meet the Community Judges for Web-Scale Wish!

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Microsoft TechEd Barcelona Meets Web-Scale with Nutanix!

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix Simplicity reaches Microsoft System Center

We recently wrote a set of blogs about our integration with Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V and the Microsoft ecosystem. The first post detailed our integration with Hyper-V and the strategic value of our partnership with Microsoft.

Web-Scale Wish: A Non-Profit Datacenter Makeover

The right technology in the right hands has the power to change lives and organizations. This holiday season, Nutanix will gift web-scale converged infrastructure to a non-profit organization chosen by you, our community.

Metro Availabilty For Application Downtime | Nutanix

Metro Availability handles failures so applications and end users stay online with no downtime, regardless of the failure: component, server, rack or site.

Announcing the Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) Program

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Announcing Nutanix Metro Availability

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Announcing Nutanix Metro Availability

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Announcing .NEXT 2015, the Web-Scale Conference

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Reminder: VCDX Study Workshop for Mock Defenses at VMware HQ (Oct 4-5)

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

How Nutanix and VSAN EVO: RAIL differ on management and your designs

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Prism Element and Prism Central Walkthrough

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix – High Availability and Data Protection

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix – High Availability and Data Protection

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix High Availability and Continuity – Impact on Ops

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

How Does Data-At-Rest Encryption Work? | Nutanix

Find out how Nutanix data-at-rest encryption satisfies regulatory requirements for government, banking, financial, healthcare and other G2000 enterprises.

How Does Data-At-Rest Encryption Work? | Nutanix

Find out how Nutanix data-at-rest encryption satisfies regulatory requirements for government, banking, financial, healthcare and other G2000 enterprises.

The Consequence of Success – Competitive FUD

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Choice: vSphere Licensing on Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Bringing “Value” back to your customers – and in “VAR”

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Mark Brunstad joins Nutanix

The baton is passing

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Best Ways to Engage with the Community at VMworld SF ’14

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Pay-As-You-Grow with Nutanix and VMware Horizon 6

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

VCDX Study Lounge on Sunday at VMworld SF

If you are preparing for your VCDX examination, or even just interested in getting started, Nutanix invites you to come by the VCDX Study Lounge on Sunday at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco.

Nutanix establishes next phase Partner Network framework

AppSense DesktopNow validated for Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Cloud Connect Disaster Recovery With AWS & Azure | Nutanix

Nutanix Cloud Connect enables native hybrid cloud architectures, integrating public cloud services such as AWS and Azure, with private cloud environments.

Nutanix Arrives as a Mainstream Datacenter Player

Why are VCDXs flocking to Nutanix?

Web-Scale IT: Who Knows the Most? The Results are in at Nutanix

As you may know, we held a worldwide contest for the top score on the Web-Scale IQ Quiz from June 24th through last Friday, July 18th at 10pm PT. Hundreds of contestants competed for bragging rights on being the top expert on Web-Scale IT, plus a Geek Crate (see below), but there can be only one winner.

How Going Web-Scale is Opening up New Opportunities

Protected Trust is a service provider that offers a variety of services ranging from secure email and collaborations to secure private cloud offerings.

Making Web-Scale Waves at VMworld 2014

This year’s VMworld theme of “No Limits” couldn’t have provided a better stage for us to highlight how Nutanix is bringing the scalable and agile technologies and datacenter architectures used by companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and other leading players to mainstream enterprises across the globe.

Nutanix and Microsoft Private Cloud: We continue our journey with Microsoft (Part 2)

This article continues where we left off and discusses our most recent software release, Nutanix OS 4.0, which shipped last month. Nutanix OS 4.0 is feature rich comprising integrations with the Microsoft ecosystem including Windows, Hyper-V and Azure.

Nutanix Foundation Demo Video: From Bare-metal to Production in Minutes

The Nutanix Foundation is a tool that allow administrators to completely bootstrap, deploy and configure a bare-metal Nutanix cluster from start-to-end with minimal interaction in matter of minutes.

Nutanix Foundation Demo Video: From Bare-metal to Production in Minutes

The Nutanix Foundation is a tool that allow administrators to completely bootstrap, deploy and configure a bare-metal Nutanix cluster from start-to-end with minimal interaction in matter of minutes.

Bursting with Pride – The Nutanix and BEarena Partnership

A few recent events have driven me to start a blog. BEarena is growing, increasingly my time is spent planning the next move of the Company, analyzing industry trends, preparing us for the next quantum leap.

Nutanix and Microsoft Private Cloud: We begin our journey with Hyper-V (Part I)

Over the last few years, Hyper-V has gained great traction with IT organizations serving numerous use cases, geographies and customer segments.

Implications of the Dell OEM Relationship for Nutanix Channel Partners

We announced today an OEM relationship whereby Dell is going to manufacturer appliances built with Nutanix software. But Dell’s pricing is structured in such a way that the company will not have a price advantage over other partners selling Nutanix appliances.

SDS for the Masses: Why Dell Matters

Technology companies are faced with different chasms at various phases of their growth. How deeply secure or insecure they are about crossing those chasms defines their future. How they value ubiquity and distribution separates the niche players from the category creators. I’d take the example of two companies to illustrate the point.

Web-scale IT: "Are we there yet?"

Incumbents have started to write blog posts pooh-pooing the undeniable web-scale “rebellion” in the enterprise. The word rebellion reminds me of the talk I gave two years ago at BriForum London.

The Web-Scale Vision

This week Gartner released their first-ever Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems, and Nutanix is proud to be “the furthest to the right for completeness of vision.”

10 Reasons why web-scale will trounce Vblock

In The Register yesterday a VCE spokesperson said that comparing Nutanix to Vblock is like comparing a glove box in one vehicle to an entire car. A more applicable, albeit fictional, automobile analogy would be to contrast an inexpensive Tesla with a Cadillac Escalade for commuting back and forth to work.

Web-Scale Wednesday Activities Starting…NOW!

To kick off the countdown to Web-Scale Wednesday, the highly interactive online event that’s happening next week on June 25th, we’re holding a global Twitter contest.

Web-scale Wednesday: This is What IT Transformation Looks Like

Web-scale IT, a radically new approach to datacenter infrastructure design and management conceived by web companies and cloud providers is increasingly becoming relevant to enterprise datacenters.

Citrix Validated Solution for Nutanix

During Citrix Synergy 2014, Nutanix unveiled the preview of a Citrix Validated Solution for Nutanix. The reference architecture offering a dense 1,000 virtual desktops along with the Citrix XenDesktop infrastructure in 6 rack-mount units, generated a lot of interest from attendees and press alike. Today we formally announced the CVS for Nutanix over the PR wires.

Nutanix Inaugural EMEA Partner Conference Goes off with a Bang!

Last week saw our first EMEA Partner summit taking place over two days in Marbella, Spain. We had over 100 delegates attend from more than 50 partners, spanning all corners of EMEA – from Finland in the North to South Africa in the South.

Nutanix Celebrates 500th Employee

As Nutanix hits 500 employees, Talent Acquisition Director, Kevin O’Kane reflects on the current industry boom driving its ongoing recruitment

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Fire in the mountain – Run Run Run

Virtual desktops have come a long way from just being a new cool technology to provide a PC like end user computing environment. While pundits continue to argue whether VDI is suitable for every user, they all agree that VDI is ready for every enterprise.

Nutanix Blows Away Industry Net Promoter Scores

No matter how disruptive a new technology may be, if the manufacturer doesn’t provide adequate support, the company isn’t going anywhere. Nutanix strives to back our innovative web-scale IT infrastructure with world-class customer support.

NOS 4.0 Cluster Health – Preemptive Disk Failure Alerting for the ROBO

Prior to 4.0 Nutanix would track disk errors and eventually mark the drive offline and rebuild the data if the drive was failing. Cluster Health allows the end user to get insight into whats going on before the drive is marked offline.

NOS 4.0 Cluster Health – Slices & Dices

It slices and it dices! Nutanix Cluster Health is a new feature that will be another great asset in maintaining availability for your Tier 1 workloads. Cluster Health allows the ability to monitor and visually see the overall health of cluster nodes, VMs and disks from a variety of different views.

Nutanix OS 4.0 Brings Web-scale Infrastructure to the Enterprise

It’s an exciting day for Nutanix, one that marks a significant milestone in the company’s journey to disrupt the traditional enterprise IT market. Today, we announced the fourth major release of the Nutanix Operating System, the intelligent software powering the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform.

Nutanix Now – Recap of our First Partner Conference

After representing six different channel partner businesses at countless partner conferences during my 25 years in the channel, it was a bit surreal being on the other side of the fence at our first partner conference last week.

They’re getting fired up about Nutanix

When you take the emotion out of buying, Nutanix emerges as the logical first choice. As you may have read recently, one of Nutanix’s premier partners won a prestigious contract to replace the data centre infrastructure for a well-known global telecoms analyst.

Nutanix Controller Failure. Will Users Notice?

Reliability and resiliency is a key, if not the most important piece, to the Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS). Being a distributed system NDFS is built to handle component, service and controller (CVM) failures.

Nutanix Controller Failure. Will Users Notice?

Reliability and resiliency is a key, if not the most important piece, to the Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS). Being a distributed system NDFS is built to handle component, service and controller (CVM) failures.

Web Scale Architecture: Understanding System Principles

Web-scale IT is more than just a buzzword, it is the way datacenters and software architectures are designed to incorporate multi-dimensional concepts.

Web Scale Architecture: Understanding System Principles

Web-scale IT is more than just a buzzword, it is the way datacenters and software architectures are designed to incorporate multi-dimensional concepts.

Introducing Nutanix Next – A Community Passionate About Reinventing Enterprise Datacenters

Today, with great excitement, we are launching a new online community – Nutanix Next. This online community is open to anyone who is passionate about enterprise datacenters and cloud initiatives.

Flash – Performance at what cost?

Flash is everywhere these days and everyone likes to throw out impressive performance numbers. If someone told you that flash is faster than a hard drive I am sure the thought that pops into your head is, “yeah… thanks for the info”.

Nutanix Disk Self-Healing: Laser Surgery vs The Scalpel

Nutanix being a converged distributed solution is designed for failure. It’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Distributed systems are extremely complex for some of the following reasons.

The Basics: Snapshots

In my IT career at work I have never had shared storage that didn’t have snapshots integrated. They were considered fundamental to me if I was going to put all my eggs into one basket.

The Basics: Snapshots

In my IT career at work I have never had shared storage that didn’t have snapshots integrated. They were considered fundamental to me if I was going to put all my eggs into one basket.

Competition is Necessary to Validate Disruption

“Five hundred dollars fully subsidized with a plan! I said that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine”, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an interview following the unveiling of the iPhone in 2007.

Disaster Recovery – Failover and Failback with Nutanix

Nutanix has built-in VM-Centric, multi-site, bi-directional, multi-topology disaster recovery and replication engine that also supports VMware Site Recovery Manager and Run Book Automation tools.

All in with Nutanix: DH Technologies

Devin Henderson started DH Technologies with 12 employees on May 1st of 2013 after breaking off from a 3-year old solutions provider in which he was a partner. His new firm began selling Nutanix on the first day, and received a PO within the first week.

Innovation and the Channel

In 2005, my partner and I started a VMware consultancy. Our business plan was simple: Gain a national reputation for virtualization expertise, and then sell to a big solution provider wanting to acquire a VMware practice.

The Secret to Google’s Datacenter and Why it Matters to Every Enterprise

In October 2012, Google finally revealed photos and details about their previously secret data centers. For years, people had speculated on their location and the trade secret that powered tools such as web searches and Gmail.

Nutanix Automation, Policies and the SDDC

In a Nutanix cluster, PRISM is the management gateway for components and administrators to configure and monitor the cluster. This includes NCLI (command-line), the HTML5 UI (administrative interface) and REST API support for the entire management framework, providing customers a choice of building orchestration applications.

Nutanix scoops excellence in customer service award!

I am delighted to announce that Nutanix has received the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from Omega Management in recognition of our outstanding customer service and support throughout 2013.

Web-Scale Uncensored! at .NEXT… The Countdown is On!

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Confessions from Nutanix's First Customer

About 4 years ago, I worked for a small integrator and was tasked with designing a VDI infrastructure solution for 1,000 desktops. In those days, this was

Citrix Embraces Converged Infrastructure

Today, Citrix announced a new Citrix Ready program focusing on converged infrastructure solutions that will lower the cost of XenDesktop and XenApp deployments.

Hands Down the Ultimate VDI – Part 2

Earlier this week in my article Hands Down the Ultimate VDI/DaaS platform – Persistent Desktops I described how Nutanix help organizations to achieve higher performance, maximum capacity and better end-user experience for VDI deployments.

Four Predictions for 2014

Welcome to 2014! We’ve started the year with a bang. Your faith has been a big part of this watershed moment in the company’s history. Thank you for your unflinching support. As the new year begins, I’ll take the liberty to make some industry predictions, although I acknowledge how perilous it is to hold an imaginary crystal ball.

Dakar 2014: Update from the Road, Days 11-13

Another tough stage for the competitors and a very pleasant drive along the coast to beautiful Antofagasta. Great weather, light breeze, and nicely located bivouac.

Chasing Datacenter Efficiency

In recent times a lot has been deliberated on Convergence and Hyperconverged infrastructure topics, but these topics are not new for large-scale web companies. Years ago large-scale web companies started to face pressure from business to deliver better service agility at lower costs.

Dakar 2014: Update from the Road, Days 8-10

After the rest day, the cars and trucks got a relatively easy track. Still there were some issues for the competitors. Henk had to fix the Dodge again but did finish the same day which is a positive trend.

Nimble Storage vs Nutanix: 8 Ways We Crashed the Unicorn Club

Unlike Nutanix, Nimble’s differentiation is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Learn about the eight most important difference at Nutanix.

Not Just Datacenter Transformation; Nutanix is Also Transforming Partner Businesses

How do you know when a datacenter technology manufacturer has something truly disruptive? One sign is when channel partners start to focus their businesses around selling and implementing the manufacturer’s solutions.

Dakar 2014: Update From the Road, Days 5-7

The stage to Tucaman was a real challenge for the competitors and one of the most noticeable images is of the bike of Goncalves bursting into flames.

4 Years with Positive Ions

On the eve of our Series D, I am going to tell a visual story of our company. It’s going to be about positive ions, about the electric field we operate in, and about how a certain velocity differentiates us from the “also-ran” stationary atoms.

Bringing Web-scale Infrastructure to Hyper-V Environments

The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is a converged infrastructure solution that consolidates the compute (server) tier and the storage tier into a single, integrated appliance. The platform delivers web-scale performance, scalability, and data management to VMware ESXi and KVM based virtualized systems.

Dakar 2014: Update From the Road, Days 1-4

First day on the road to San Luis. During most of the trip we had 3G coverage, so we could follow the race progress live while underway.

Nutanix: The Big Red Easy Button for Oracle Databases – Part 1

My primary role as part of the Solutions and Performance Engineering team is to help develop the platform, solutions reference architectures, and best practices for Business Critical Applications. One of the areas I’m working on right now is Oracle on Nutanix.

NearTheX – Nutanix Monitoring App Integrated with iBeacon Technology

iBeacon is a technology being heavily showcased at CES right now that delivers indoor positioning capabilities to mobile devices.

Dakar 2014: Nutanix and VMware's Jan-Willem Lammers Trailblaze Through South America

Nutanix has teamed up with VMware’s Jan-Willem Lammers to sponsor a group of Dutch journalists who will be following the Dakar 2014 rally.

Nutanix Channel New Year’s Resolutions

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

My First Use of 3D Printing: My Foray into the World of 3D Printing with a Nutanix Block as my Model.

I work for arguably the hottest infrastructure startup since the dawn of time (or Sun Microsystems, 30 years ago, or whatever), a company called Nutanix. 90% of the Nutanix story I tell customers involves the value of our software

Data Locality – SQL & VDI On The Same Nutanix Cluster

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix Delivers a GPU Platform That Pays for Itself – in Bitcoins

Nutanix recently launched the NX-7000 series platform that incorporates one or multiple Nvidia Grid K1 or K2 cards into a Nutanix node. This combination of the shared or dedicated horsepower of a purpose-built GPU card allows for scale-on-success GPU-enabled virtual desktop solutions.

Another day, another app: Nutanix platform now delivers graphics rich virtual desktops

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Single File Restore – Fairy Tale Ending Going Down History Lane

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

What is the Value of a VCDX to a VMware Ecosystem Partner?

Calling Nutanix a Storage Company Doesn’t Compute

There was a big flash, and then the dinosaurs died

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Hypervisor-Based Replication vs. Cluster-Based Replication – Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Optimizing Private Cloud Infrastructure with Public Clouds

The private cloud environment is inconsistent with traditional infrastructure and high costs impede agility. See how Nutanix mitigates these challenges.

Power of REST

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

The cup has been flipped. (Part III)

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

The cup has been flipped.

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

The cup has been flipped.

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

VMware VSAN Validates an Increasing Shift to Software-Defined Storage

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Announcing Nutanix OS 3.5 – Performance, Manageability and User Centricity for Datacenters, Redefined

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

NutaniX-Men and Women Set to Take Over VMworld 2013

Predictions for the 10th annual VMworld, taking place August 25-29 in San Francisco, are rolling in from many corners of the media, analyst and vendor landscape.

Flexible Replication Topologies with Nutanix Native DR

Replication is a fundamental component of any enterprise disaster recovery (DR) solution, ensuring that critical data and applications can be reliably and efficiently replicated to a different site or a separate infrastructure.

Flexible Replication Topologies with Nutanix Native DR

Replication is a fundamental component of any enterprise disaster recovery (DR) solution, ensuring that critical data and applications can be reliably and efficiently replicated to a different site or a separate infrastructure.

Nutanix Named One of Bay Area’s Most Attractive Startups for Engineers by LinkedIn

Nutanix was just named one of the top ten most attractive startups for Bay Area engineers by LinkedIn! So, how’d we get where we are today? I was interviewed as part of the recognition and below is a short transcript of the interview.

Nutanix VCDX Sponsorship

As a company that is home to several VCDXs (VMware Certified Design Expert), Nutanix knows first hand the importance of encouraging qualified candidates to pursue VCDX status. The drive, creativity, and knowledge of a VCDX is difficult to come by and those who possess these qualities deserve recognition.

Converged infrastructure belongs EVERYWHERE

The reality is that converged infrastructure has a useful place in nearly every part of the enterprise – whether it’s supporting services in a branch office, or running a large database. So why has it taken so long to be adopted outside of the datacenter? Well, look at the choices customers have had to date.

Recognizing vExperts as Evangelists

Almost 600 VMware gurus were chosen for the coveted vExpert award this year. We are proud to announce that six of our own Nutanix employees are on that list: Jason Langone, Raymon Epping, Dwayne Lessner, Craig Waters, Steve Kaplan, and Bas Raayman.

Why Nutanix is a Great Fit for US Public Sector

In this tough economic climate how is Nutanix still seeing such great traction across federal customers? I think the answers lies in a combination of some decisions Nutanix made early on and some key trends prevalent across the Federal Government.

In Spring Thoughts Turn to Software-Defined Storage

This past Friday, May 31 marks the date when three datacenter players all simultaneously and coincidentally drew separate lines in the sand in terms of defining the future of enterprise storage.

Software-defined Storage: Our Take

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Nutanix and Veeam Help Firms Avoid Disaster

VM-centric Disaster Recovery Done Right

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

The VMware Horizon Suite on Nutanix: A Match Made in Heaven?

I recently had the opportunity to head over to the VMware HQ and conduct a white boarding session on the VMware Horizon Suite on Nutanix solution.

Software is Also Eating the Data Center

Most big data center players still cling to the hardware-based models of yore. But the growing ubiquity of the hypervisor as the new data center O/S means that software-defined technologies will increasingly challenge the status quo.

Moving Across the Channel

After twenty-five years in the IT channel, including positions at six different solutions providers, writing columns for three different channel magazines, and seats on partner advisory councils for several manufacturers- I’ve switched sides.

The Design Goals Behind the Updated Nutanix Website

It’s been about a week since we launched the updated Nutanix website and so far the feedback we’ve received has been generally very positive. I wanted to share a bit of the thinking behind the design of the new site.

Dispelling the VDI Appliance Myth

This post came about through a few discussions on Twitter and encounters in the field, and before I knew it I had volunteered to write a post for the Nutanix Blog.

2013 Predictions: The End of Big Iron

These predictions were first published as a contributed article in VMblog’s 5th Annual Virtualization and Cloud Prediction Series.