“Pushed by buyer requests, these partnerships spotlight Nutanix administration’s push towards unbundling AHV to capitalize on the continued VMware displacement alternative. Working standalone AHV on current three-tier infrastructure offers dissatisfied VMware prospects with a better migration route off VMware because it removes the necessity for {hardware} refreshes,” Ader wrote.
“Whereas Nutanix nonetheless goals to finally shift prospects to one-tier hyperconverged infrastructure (which requires {hardware} substitute), this interim standalone AHV technique affords Nutanix a beachhead on which to construct its case for HCI [Hyperconverged Infrastructure],” Ader wrote. “Over time, we anticipate Nutanix to forge comparable storage integrations with different distributors, together with NetApp. We consider these partnerships illustrate the gradual ecosystem shift towards Nutanix as prospects and VARs turn out to be more and more disillusioned with Broadcom’s impression on the VMware group,” Ader said.
Maintaining with the storage theme, Nutanix launched Cloud Native AOS, a brand new service that extends Nutanix enterprise storage and superior knowledge providers to hyperscaler Kubernetes with out requiring a hypervisor.
In one other storage associated bulletins, Nutanix introduced the overall availability of NCI Compute, enabling prospects to leverage exterior storage with Nutanix Cloud Platform. The primary supported answer is Dell PowerFlex, designed for mission-critical environments. Dell PowerFlex with Nutanix Cloud Platform will probably be provided alongside Dell’s HCI equipment, Dell XC Plus.
Nutanix additionally introduced the general public preview of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Google Cloud, increasing workload mobility and hybrid cloud capabilities. This answer permits organizations to deploy the Nutanix hyperconverged software program stack on Google Cloud Z3 bare-metal situations, enabling fast migration, app modernization, and catastrophe restoration.
Lastly, Nutanix introduced a partnership with Canonical to supply built-in assist for Ubuntu Professional within the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). This integration guarantees to simplify Kubernetes set up and adoption on Ubuntu Professional, which has superior safety techniques, together with authorities regulatory safety.
