Appcito, a provider of multi-cloud application delivery solutions, today announced that it has joined the Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Partner Program and is validated as Nutanix Ready. The Appcito Application Delivery System (ADS) delivers transformative application delivery solutions that accelerate adoption of public, private and hybrid clouds. Its unique architecture allows customers to fully take advantage of bi-modal IT while delivering a zero-risk, software-as-a-service approach (SaaS) that is purpose-built for DevOps, containers and distributed microservices.

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, storage and virtualization into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

Appcito is validated as Nutanix Ready for Applications and Operating Systems. The Appcito ADS solution running on Nutanix helps joint enterprise customers:

• Leverage Nutanix Prism and Appcito sizing tools, reference designs and simple installation to go from concept to production as much as 30X faster than traditional application delivery approaches.
• Simplify application delivery and attain predictable scalability through Nutanix’s and Appcito’s complementary web-scale architectures.
• Use application traffic management with advanced elastic load balancing, performance optimization, application security and analytics are available directly on Nutanix infrastructure with minimum downtime.

“We are seeing an increasing trend among enterprise customers to move towards hyper-converged infrastructures,” said Shashi Kiran, Chief Marketing Officer, Appcito. “Integrating with Nutanix, the industry leader, will deliver compelling value to our joint customers that are looking to accelerate their cloud deployments with Appcito’s transformative multi-cloud application delivery solutions. This joint solutions delivers true application agility, performance, security and analytics at a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches.”

“Our customers desire a robust technology ecosystem that can complement their Nutanix infrastructure,” said Venugopal Pai, Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Business Development, Nutanix. “We are dedicated to working together with valued partners such as Appcito to deliver open, innovative, and transformative next-generation IT solutions that can fully leverage the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud.”

The Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Program provides partners with technical resources, testing and documentation processes, marketing support, and sales enablement to develop comprehensive customer solutions. Nutanix Elevate Partners deliver validated solutions to market in the areas of Application Development, Applications and Operating Systems, Backup and Disaster Recovery, Desktop and Application Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud, Management and Operations, and Networking and Security.