Nutanix announced new
capabilities in the Nutanix Cloud Platform to enable customers to
integrate data management of containerized and virtualized applications
on-premises, on public cloud, and at the edge. This includes
comprehensive data services for Kubernetes applications as well as
cross-cloud data mobility.
According to IDC, by 2025 there will be 750 million new logical
applications, more than the past 40 years of computing, all generating
large amounts of data across clouds*. This means it will be paramount
for organizations to integrate management of data for both containerized
and virtualized applications as well as across multiple environments.
"According to the Enterprise Cloud Index, nearly all enterprises have
started using Kubernetes for their containerized applications. Now IT
teams need to find a way to both enable their developers with
self-service data services, while also ensuring governance and security
policies are applied uniformly," said Thomas Cornely, SVP, Product
Management at Nutanix. "With Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes, the
Nutanix Cloud Platform will extend storage provisioning, snapshots, and
disaster recovery operations to Kubernetes applications to help
accelerate containerized application development in the enterprise."
Data Services for Kubernetes
Currently, developers and administrators are faced with gaps and
complexity for stateful Kubernetes® applications, necessitating multiple
third-party tools or complex DIY projects to solve for the application
and namespace layers. Announced today, Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK) will give customers control over cloud-native apps and data at scale.
Initially delivered as part of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI),
NDK will bring the full power of Nutanix's enterprise class storage,
snapshots, and disaster recovery to Kubernetes. This will help
accelerate containerized application development for stateful workloads
by introducing storage provisioning, snapshots, and disaster recovery
operations to Kubernetes pods and application namespaces. NDK will
empower Kubernetes developers with self-service capabilities to manage
storage and data services, while also enabling IT with visibility and
governance over consumption. NDK is also designed for use with Red Hat
OpenShift.
"Application modernization is a key aspect of our digital
transformation journey to continually deliver a better experience for
our customers," says Yongju Jo, Chief Manager, IDC Business Dept,
Shinsegae. "We believe Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes has a big
potential to deliver simplified enterprise-grade storage provisioning,
snapshots, and disaster recovery for our Kubernetes deployments."
Cross-Cloud Data Mobility
Nutanix also introduced the Multicloud Snapshot Technology
(MST) capability to deliver cross-cloud data mobility. MST will extend
Nutanix hybrid multicloud data services by enabling snapshots directly
to cloud native object stores, starting with the AWS S3 object storage
service. This will unlock hybrid multicloud data protection, recovery,
and mobility use cases, such as the ability to seamlessly protect and
migrate stateful Kubernetes applications and data across cloud
infrastructures with NDK leveraging this technology.
MST will enable several use cases including disaster recovery and
backup for both containerized and virtualized applications, the ability
to create a snapshot and instantly recover it anywhere, cross-cloud data
migration, the ability to share data for workflows like test/dev,
long-term retention for compliance, and more. This will also help many
customers manage costs of their primary infrastructure enabling them to
easily store snapshots in a less expensive storage medium, and just as
easily recover them, across any infrastructure 一 private or public
cloud.
In addition to these new capabilities, the Nutanix Objects Storage solution now integrates with Snowflake,
the Data Cloud company, to allow organizations to leverage the
Snowflake Data Cloud to analyze data directly on Nutanix Objects. This
can help to ensure data stays local, accelerates time to value, and
delivers faster insights. Additionally, a single namespace in Nutanix
Objects simplifies access to globally distributed data.
NDK and MST are under development. The Nutanix ObjectsStorage and
Snowflake integration is currently available to customers. More
information is available here.