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Nutanix hybrid cloud infrastructure now available on AWS

Nutanix is making its technology available on Amazon Web Services . This is done through Nutanix Clusters – a hybrid cloud extension between onpremises data centres to public clouds , to manage apps in the two environments without retooling . It will give customers better flexibility in how they manage applications .

Nutanix , a leader in enterprise cloud

computing , has announced the general availability of Nutanix Clusters on AWS , extending the flexibility and ease of use of the company ’ s hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) software , along with all Nutanix products and services , to bare metal Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) instances on Amazon Web Services ( AWS ). public clouds . A unified solution that provides a consistent experience , tooling and operational practices across clouds will allow companies to break down silos and reduce inefficiencies while enabling the advantage of flexibility to choose the right cloud for each workload .
With this announcement , Nutanix extends the simplicity and ease of use of its software to public cloud . This eliminates the cost and management complexity of hybrid environments and enables seamless mobility across private and public clouds without any rearchitecting of the apps due to built-in networking integration with AWS . Customers now have the flexibility to choose the right cloud environment for each application with the added benefit of license portability across clouds , which has a direct impact on cost and resource optimisation .
Additionally , customers will be able to take advantage of the company ’ s full software stack on private and public cloud . This includes unstructured storage solution , Files ; application orchestration solution , Calm ; and database administration solution , Era .
Craig Wiley , Senior Infrastructure Systems Architect at Penn National Insurance , said : “ At Penn National Insurance , we were looking for a new solution to support our VDI workloads to ensure Business Continuity if our primary data centre suffers from a disaster event .
“ Nutanix Clusters allows us to easily create a hybrid and multi-cloud environment spanning our Nutanix data centre and AWS , so that we can very rapidly burst capacity in AWS when we need to quickly restore our workloads from a backup .
“ On top of the flexibility that this solution provides , the ability to use our existing AWS networking setup made the Nutanix Clusters deployment very easy while delivering the expected performance . Now we know we can expand VDI capacity with one-click and hibernate our hybrid cloud workloads when not in use , so we only pay for the capacity we need .” ◊
With this announcement , Nutanix delivers hybrid cloud infrastructure – one that allows businesses to accelerate their digital initiatives and optimise spending priorities further amplified in the age of COVID . Nutanix offers a single stack that integrates compute and storage , provides unified operations across private and public clouds , integrated networking with AWS and license portability from private to public clouds , thus addressing key technical and operational challenges of the hybrid cloud era .
According to Gartner , by 2021 , 90 % of organisations will have deployed a multicloud or hybrid cloud model for their IT needs . Companies require the flexibility of multiple clouds while they continue to struggle with the complexity , operational silos and costs of managing private and intelligent INFRASTRUCTURE www . intelligentdatacentres . com Issue 20
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