Nutanix, Inc. today announced new updates to
Beam which extend its cost visibility and optimization capabilities into
on-prem deployments. With these new updates, Nutanix customers can get
full visibility and insight into the entirety of their infrastructure
environment, including public and private clouds, so they can choose the
right cloud for every application. Applications that are more
predictable, such as data back-up, databases and enterprise applications
can be more cost-effective when operating in private clouds, while less
predictable workloads like mobile/digital and IoT services can be more
suitable for public cloud infrastructure. Beam will also now provide a
global multi-cloud view so customers can visualize cloud spend patterns
from a single dashboard, making it easier to make decisions which save
their business money and ensure compliance with regulations.
According to a recent survey from IDC,
"80% of customers report repatriating workloads from public cloud
environments" and "the complexity of managing an increasingly
disaggregated application portfolio across multiple landing zones is
driving a sharper focus on TCO and performance for discrete elements."
As
organizations focus on wrangling public cloud deployments to gain more
visibility into what is being consumed, existing private cloud
deployments, including potential cost savings, are often ignored,
resulting in an incomplete picture of a company's enterprise
infrastructure. Beam will now provide customers with cost visibility
into Nutanix software licenses so they can understand the cost
associated with their Nutanix private cloud environments, as well as
with public cloud deployments on popular cloud platforms. In addition to
having complete visibility across the entirety of their public cloud
consumption, Nutanix customers will now be able to see how much they are
spending on each Nutanix cluster they've set up and get advance
notification when they need to add more software based on current
consumption trends, all within a single management dashboard. This
global view will finally enable customers to manage their entire IT
infrastructure environment.
"We're
growing at an aggressive pace and with a large public cloud footprint,
making sure that we have granular visibility and fine-grained control is
crucial to ensuring we do not overspend," said Anuj Gupta, CEO, Hitachi
Systems Micro Clinic. "As we doubled our cloud deployments, Nutanix
Beam identified so many savings that we saw no increase in our overall
spend. We're so excited to have that same visibility in our future
on-prem deployments to ensure complete cost optimization across our
multi-cloud infrastructure."
Adding
to existing support for all major public cloud platforms, providing
customers with visibility and governance across their public cloud
deployments, Beam's newly added support for cost governance on Nutanix
clusters provides:
- Unified
governance for all clouds - CIOs and I&O leaders can centrally
control consumption across private, public and hybrid clouds, and make
decisions on future consumption more efficiently
- Continuous
cost optimization - Beam conducts intelligent analysis of cloud
consumption trends to provide a list of the type of product and timeline
for future purchases to keep the cloud cost optimized for both private
and public clouds
- Cluster
level cost analysis - Customers will be able to see the cost of their
Nutanix clusters that have been deployed and cost of software licenses
allocated to each cluster
"Hybrid
cloud is no longer considered a brief stopping point in the journey
toward an all public cloud future. It's a first-class destination as
customers realize they want the complementary benefits of the public and private
cloud," said Sunil Potti, Chief Product and Development Officer at
Nutanix. "For this to be successful, companies need to understand how
they're using infrastructure no matter what the platform and from a
single view. Nutanix Beam now provides that visibility so customers can
finally make informed decisions about their entire infrastructure."
Availability
Beam
for Nutanix on-prem deployments is planned to be available by the end
of 2018. Pricing details will be made available closer to the general
release.
For a free trial of Nutanix Beam, visit https://www.nutanix.com/products/beam/signup/