Cloud Native Workload Solutions: Powered by Nutanix

Companies across all industries are adopting Cloud Native methods to boost agility and innovation. This includes modernizing existing applications and developing new applications using microservices, containers, and automated DevOps pipelines, with benefits that can include streamlined application development and easier, more flexible deployments as well as efficient operations and simplified scaling.

The shift to cloud native represents a generational opportunity for Service Providers to capture workloads that customers previously relegated to proprietary or self-managed infrastructure.  To succeed, SPs need a solution that helps them compete in the crowded cloud space—without compromising on VM-based service offerings.

The right platform should efficiently handle the compute, data, networking, security, and related service needs of cloud native workloads to deliver a competitive and differentiated service. Nutanix empowers  Service Providers to deliver full-stack Cloud Native services with significant opportunities for value-add with flexible, usage-based consumption. (Learn more about the Nutanix Elevate Service Provider Consumption Model.)

Cloud Native Requirements

To address the Cloud Native opportunity and become more competitive, it’s critical to meet key customer expectations for a Cloud Native service, including:

• Flexibility: The ability to easily deploy and run containerized applications at scale on-premises, at the edge, on Service Provider infrastructure, and in public clouds.

• Reduced infrastructure complexity: The ability to define, manage, and control infrastructure through templates improves consistency, scalability, and automation while managing manual errors and operational costs.

• Resource optimization: The ability to decide where to best run each application and allocate or deallocate resources based on real-time demand is necessary to enable fine-grained control over spending.

• Data security and compliance: The ability to protect sensitive data against loss or breach with reliable tools and built-in security features to help meet regulatory requirements. 

As a Service Provider, you are in a unique position to provide your clients with the optimal IaaS and PaaS for Cloud Native workloads in a multi-cloud environment,  but you must create the right offerings that address the key customer requirements. There are several additional considerations when it comes to launching a sustainable, cost-effective service:

• Easy to deploy: If you start from scratch, it can take a long time to select, integrate, and test all the necessary components for your Cloud Native service, and new deployments will also be more time-consuming.

• Easy onboarding: You need the ability to onboard customers quickly so they can begin using the service with minimum friction.

• Value-added data services: Secure, robust data services are critical to the cloud native experience, and an easy opportunity to add value and differentiation.

• Meet diverse SLAs: Customers can require large fleets of Kubernetes clusters serving diverse functions from development to testing to production, and a wide range of SLAs for performance, data protection, and disaster recovery (DR).

Simplify Cloud Native Service Deployment with Nutanix

Nutanix offers a portfolio of solutions that can enable Service Providers to create Cloud Native services tailored to customers’ exact needs. Our core container management offering, the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution, is a full-stack, enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution that’s built to provide resiliency, security, and comprehensive day 2 operations. NKP can minimize the time required to launch a Cloud Native service. With NKP, you can deliver the full functionality necessary to support a customer’s  Cloud Native stack. Operational and infrastructure simplicity streamline time to value; optimized operations can drive profitability.

• Deploy Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) in SP datacenters with NKP to create a full-stack solution that supports containers and VMs on the same infrastructure using the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, minimizing infrastructure cost.

• Deploy NKP anywhere, in customer datacenters (on existing infrastructure), at the edge, or in the public cloud to meet diverse customer requirements while delivering a unified experience. 

• Deploy additional value-added capabilities to address specific needs with flexible consumption:

  • Database: The Nutanix Database Service (NDB) solution streamlines the deployment of database services to support cloud native applications.

  • Storage services: Provide access to flexible block, file, and object storage without adding infrastructure complexity with the Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) solution

  • Advanced Cloud Native capabilities:

    • Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK): Application-level data services for Kubernetes, extending advanced data management to containerized apps.

    • Cloud Native AOS: Containerize Nutanix storage capabilities to bring enterprise resiliency, day 2 operations, and security to heterogeneous Kubernetes clusters deployed across public clouds or on bare-metal servers.

Nutanix Cloud Native: The Smart Choice

By partnering with Nutanix for Cloud Native, Service Providers can:

• Onboard tenants swiftly and streamline time to revenue

• Offer differentiated services leveraging open source software (OSS) combined with value-added software capabilities that simplify deployment and management

• Scale with ease — keeping pace with workload needs

• Offer a secure environment that addresses diverse customer needs

To learn more about the Nutanix Cloud Native solution, visit nutanix.com/cloud-native. Contact us or our Elevate SP aggregators to schedule a complimentary workshop. Our Subject Matter Experts will walk through how Nutanix can help you add or expand Cloud Native services. Start the process to become a partner at nutanix.com/partners/service-provider or email us at elevatesp@nutanix.com.

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