Nutanix announced Karbon Platform
Services, a Kubernetes-based multicloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
with automated system-managed security, to accelerate the development
and deployment of microservices-based apps across any cloud. This
offering provides software developers with a turnkey managed services
experience, on-premises, in the public cloud, and at the edge, to build
and run cloud native applications while enabling them to decouple
applications from the underlying infrastructure. It also provides IT
operations teams with a simplified and consistent application lifecycle
management and security framework. This announcement marks a significant
milestone for Nutanix as it looks to expand offerings aimed at
accelerating enterprises' cloud native journeys.
Enterprises,
with their sights set on realizing the benefits of digital initiatives,
often struggle to unleash the full potential of their software
developers and the agile DevOps processes by which they need to operate.
Kubernetes, along with its ecosystem of cloud native technologies,
continues to rapidly evolve, making it increasingly difficult to
implement without extensive technical resources. Furthermore,
organizations need to be able to leverage both on-premises and public
cloud-based Kubernetes deployments without compromising their ability to
manage data, applications, and IT resources simply and effectively.
"IT
resources are the engines that power digital enterprises. But as a
company scales, adopts hybrid cloud, and manages an increasing number of
applications, supporting engineering needs can be challenging for IT,"
said Rajiv Mirani, CTO at Nutanix. "With Karbon Platform Services, we
aim to simplify application development and orchestration while
streamlining the relationship between IT and development teams to
support our customers' DevOps strategies."
This
new cloud native PaaS will help software engineers to streamline
application development and orchestration without needing to manage the
underlying infrastructure. Karbon Platform Services builds on the core
Kubernetes lifecycle management capabilities initially introduced with
Karbon as an integrated component of the Nutanix HCI software. This new
offering brings automated, system-managed security and multi-tenancy to
run a wide range of microservices-based applications across multiple
cloud infrastructures.
"We
were looking for a single PaaS platform that could host our Reflex and
Vision Insights on both the edge and in our private cloud, to take
advantage of both a distributed architecture as well as support software
development and machine training on the public cloud," said Damien
Pasquinelli, CTO at Hardis Group. "Karbon Platform Services delivers the
richness of services we need in a PaaS solution, along with the
simplicity and ease of management Nutanix is known for - across clouds.
Implementing Karbon Platform Services has allowed our Vision Insights
development and DevOps teams to go from zero to prototype in less than a
quarter of the time it previously took. This software running on Karbon
Platform Services is already in production for customers like Schneider
Electric, a leading global specialist in energy management and
automation."
Key benefits of Karbon Platform Services include:
- Rich Managed Services: This
PaaS offering enables rapid development and deployment of applications
ranging from simple stateful containerized applications to complex
web-scale applications by leveraging simple, open abstraction of rich
services. Specifically, Karbon Platform Services include managed
Kubernetes (K8s-aaS), Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS), serverless
Functions, AI, message bus, ingress, service mesh, observability, and
security services.
- SaaS-based Multicloud Operations: Ops
teams benefit from simplified operations and uniform application, data,
and security lifecycle management, regardless of the underlying cloud,
at scale leveraging the SaaS-based infrastructure lifecycle manager.
Developers benefit from the rich platform services to write applications
once and deploy in the cloud through the SaaS-based application
lifecycle manager.
- Extensible Hybrid PaaS: Karbon
Platform Services provides cross-cloud data mobility and hybrid
application management through transparent, WAN-optimized data pipelines
and extensible data interfaces. This feature gives enterprises the
flexibility to bring their own services and leverage the broader
Kubernetes ecosystem.
- Enhanced Security Posture: With
Karbon Platform Services, IT operations teams can leverage a consistent
security and API model with unified observability for data and
applications across cloud. It provides automated, system-managed
security with built-in multi-tenancy and role-based access control
(RBAC) for the rich services.
"The
complexities of Kubernetes and multicloud infrastructure management can
not only overwhelm IT operations teams, but also limit the resources
and tooling available to modern application software developers. With
Karbon Platform Services, Nutanix abstracts infrastructure complexity
and delivers a managed Kubernetes, containers, and a host of essential
developer services in an easy, readily-consumable PaaS environment,"
said Bob Laliberte, Practice Director & Senior Analyst at ESG
Research. "And given that 70% of customers we've recently surveyed1 prefer
the combination of public cloud and private datacenter for
containerized applications, Karbon Platform Services satisfies that
desire for flexibility with its global control plane and simple
multicloud management capabilities."
Nutanix Karbon Platform Services is now available to customers. For more information, visit here.