Nutanix announced
Nutanix Central,
a cloud-delivered solution that provides a single console for
visibility, monitoring, and management across public cloud, on-premises,
hosted or edge infrastructure. This will extend the universal cloud
operating model of the Nutanix Cloud Platform to break down silos and
simplify consistently managing apps and data anywhere.
Most organizations today are struggling with the complexity of
managing an increasing number of environments across on-premises, public
cloud, and the edge, leading to management silos, costs, security
risks, and more, according to the Enterprise Cloud Index.
Organizations looking for a seamless hybrid multicloud experience
require a universal cloud operating model, meaning consistent management
across endpoints, integrated security, self-service and on-demand
resources, governance and full license portability that allow customers
to run apps and data anywhere. The Nutanix CentralTM solution will
greatly simplify management at a large, federated scale across
endpoints.
"The reality for most enterprise customers today is that they're
managing a vast number of applications across multiple environments.
This is leading to significant management challenges that are only going
to increase as hybrid multicloud deployments grow," said Thomas
Cornely, SVP, Product Management at Nutanix. "With Nutanix Central, we
will extend our hybrid multicloud platform to deliver a truly universal
cloud operating model to include consistent management across public
clouds, on-premises, hosted and edge environments."
Nutanix Central will provide cloud-delivered unified management and
reporting of the entire Nutanix environment distributed across private,
public, and edge clouds from a single place. It will also support
multi-domain use cases including federated identity and access
management (IAM), global projects and categories, global fleet
management, all enabling IT teams to deliver self-service infrastructure
at scale while remaining in control of governance and security.
From the Nutanix Central dashboard, customers will access domain and
cluster-level metrics, including capacity utilization and alert summary
statistics, to get a quick overview of the state of each domain. This
functionality will also enable seamless navigation to individual
domains, based on individual user role-based access control (RBAC),
across all domains registered. Additionally, customers will be able to
discover, deploy, and manage Nutanix solutions and interoperable partner
solutions. Nutanix Central will be available to customers as part of
their Nutanix Cloud InfrastructureTM (NCI) license.
Organizations struggling with managing applications and data across
environments, including multiple public clouds, on-premises, hosted
datacenter, and edge endpoints, will benefit from Nutanix Central and a
universal cloud operating model. For example, an organization with
hosted datacenters in multiple locations, as well as different public
cloud vendors across geographies will be able to enable a centralized
governance and security program. Similarly, retailers with a large
number of stores would greatly benefit from having one control plane to
manage edge locations.
In addition to Nutanix Central, the company today also announced new
capabilities in the Nutanix Cloud Platform to support higher performant
and more secure applications and data - all of which will be managed
through Nutanix Central. Specifically, the improvements
enable independent scaling of compute-only nodes running database
virtual machines on either AHV or ESXi, to tune performance and reduce
total cost of ownership, and the introduction of high-performance
storage-only nodes. Nutanix will also deliver enhanced software-defined networking and simplified micro-segmentation capabilities
across customer, partner, and hyperscaler-owned networks by using Flow
Virtual Networking (FVN) capabilities and Flow Network Security (FNS)
features, allowing customers to exercise defense-in-depth for greater
cyber resilience.
Nutanix Central and new functionality in Flow Network Security are
under development. New performance capabilities in the Nutanix Cloud
Platform and new functionality in Flow Virtual Networking are available
to customers now. More information is available here.