Nutanix announced at its .NEXT
Conference 2017 that the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS will be delivered
as a full software stack with new multi-cloud capabilities in Nutanix
Calm and a new cloud service called Nutanix Xi Cloud
Services. The new offerings take a fresh approach to hybrid cloud,
empowering customers to use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Software throughout
their multi-cloud deployments, including on-premises with platforms
from IBM, Dell EMC, Lenovo, Cisco and HPE, in the cloud via AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Azure or natively with Nutanix Xi Cloud Services.
In
the multi-cloud era, data and applications are dispersed not just
across enterprise private and public clouds, but also distributed remote
office/branch office (ROBO) and disaster recovery (DR) environments, as
well as edge computing use cases. Today's enterprises want to build
these diverse deployment options into their end-to-end cloud designs,
without disjointed IT operations or lock-in to any one virtualization or
cloud stack. A single software OS brings a new approach to unifying
these multiple clouds - across the full compute, storage and network stack - which
dramatically simplifies operations with common IT tooling, enabling
application mobility across clouds, while remaining open to any
hardware, hypervisor, or cloud.
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS Software
Delivered
as software, the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS supports a variety of
hardware platforms, form factors and third-party vendors, ensuring that a
single software fabric with unified management can run across all
enterprise environments. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS extends beyond
Nutanix-branded appliances, OEM offerings from Dell EMC and Lenovo and
systems from partner IBM to flexible subscriptions and enterprise
license agreements (ELAs) on Cisco and HPE platforms. For consumption as
a service, IT leaders will be able to leverage Nutanix software as a
native cloud-delivered solution via Xi Cloud Services - seamlessly
extending the boundaries of their enterprise datacenter while preserving
a consistent, simple one-click experience.
Nutanix Xi Cloud Services
Xi Cloud Services will
empower customers to instantly provision and consume Nutanix
infrastructure on demand as a native extension of the enterprise
datacenter, delivering a turnkey cloud service built from the same
infrastructure stack with the same tooling and SLAs as the core Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud Platform. The first available Xi Cloud Service will
enable Nutanix customers to set up, manage and test a complete
cloud-based DR service in just minutes. Using the same Prism management
interface, Nutanix customers can instantly protect their applications
and data inline with existing workflows as part of their routine IT
operations, avoiding the expense and complexity of a separate DR
solution. Nutanix will partner with strategic cloud providers to deliver
Xi Cloud Services globally, and to meet the data provenance
requirements governing multiple industries and use cases.
Nutanix Calm
Building
and operating a multi-cloud architecture requires that applications can
be easily defined, instantiated and scaled independent of the cloud
environment. Nutanix Calm abstracts
application environments from the underlying infrastructure and
recommends the right cloud for the right workload while harmonizing
cloud operations. Nutanix Calm will allow applications to be defined via
easy-to-use blueprints, which can be provisioned, managed and scaled
into different cloud environments. The solution includes a powerful,
integrated marketplace so that application designs can be shared across
the organization to speed the time to production for new business
initiatives. Calm leverages the full stack capabilities of the Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud OS across network, compute and storage to holistically
converge enterprise infrastructures on AHV, ESXi, Hyper-V, extended to
Xi Cloud Services, as well as public clouds including AWS, Google Cloud
Platform and Azure.
Product Availability
The
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS is now available as a software-only
offering for popular platforms from Cisco and HPE. Nutanix Calm is
planned to be available for sale by calendar Q4 2017. Nutanix Xi Cloud
Services for disaster recovery are planned to be offered for early
access by calendar Q1 2018.