Aviatrix, a pioneer in
hybrid cloud networking, announced that it has formed a technology, sales and
marketing partnership with Nutanix Inc., a leader in enterprise cloud computing. Aviatrix also announced
a joint solution with Nutanix that allows enterprises to automate connectivity
between hyperconverged private cloud environments and popular public clouds.
The joint solution leverages
Aviatrix Cloud Interconnect (ACX) software and the newly announced Nutanix Calm multi-cloud
orchestration software to enable Nutanix customers to seamlessly and securely extend
their datacenter networks into Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and other
public cloud services.
"Most of today's enterprise public cloud deployments operate
as isolated application silos where the network isn't necessarily an issue,"
said Steven Mih, CEO of Aviatrix. "But as enterprises move more of their
applications to both public and private clouds, it becomes too difficult to
establish and manage networking connections among the various public cloud
silos and with the datacenter. Together, Aviatrix and Nutanix provide a single
pane to orchestrate compute, storage and secure network connectivity across
hybrid clouds."
"Nutanix is committed to rebooting the hybrid cloud, and our
partnership with Aviatrix plays an important role in that endeavor," said Sunil
Potti, chief product and development officer of Nutanix. "In a hybrid cloud
environment, it's no longer possible to ignore the friction involved in cloud
networking. The Aviatrix solution complements Nutanix's world-class hybrid
cloud orchestration and automation capabilities with integrated hybrid
networking that's frictionless and built to scale."
Aviatrix and Nutanix
Tackle a Crucial Hybrid Cloud Challenge
"EMA research has found that the top networking challenge
enterprises face when implementing a hybrid cloud architecture is the
complexity of provisioning interconnections between public and private cloud
resources," said Shamus McGillicuddy, senior analyst, network management for
the Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) analyst firm. "Provisioning a direct
VPN connection to a single public cloud environment is notoriously complex. Aviatrix's
solutions aim to eliminate that complexity by turning the process of building a
global multicloud network into a point-and-click exercise."
By making cloud networking as fast, flexible and agile as
cloud computing, the joint solution from Aviatrix and Nutanix will enable
enterprises to deploy and run their mission-critical workloads and data at any
scale-across both private clouds and public clouds-without being limited by any
component of their IT architecture.
The bundled solution will enable enterprises to:
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Deploy
hybrid clouds in minutes. Aviatrix brings one-click hybrid cloud networking
to Nutanix datacenters, so that enterprises can dynamically set up, access and
begin using public cloud infrastructure services within minutes, without the
need for specialized networking expertise or command-line interface (CLI)
knowledge.
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Orchestrate
hyper-converged hybrid environments through a single pane. Nutanix Calm
orchestration capabilities coupled with Aviatrix hybrid cloud networking
technology allow enterprises to orchestrate compute, storage and secure network
connectivity to applications through a single-pane management layer.
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Overcome
current limitations to running business-critical workloads in hybrid cloud
environments. The homogeneous architecture and seamless IT fabric provides
a secure hybrid networking layer that allows enterprise applications to work
easily across private and public clouds.
Price and
Availability
The bundled solution from Nutanix and Aviatrix will be available
on the Nutanix Marketplace as well as through Nutanix and Aviatrix sales and
channel partners. More information on availability, bundle options, supported
deployment configurations and pricing will be available in July 2017.