DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
At the heart of freedom is knowledge.
There is tremendous value in using
knowledge to empower IT and reclaim
control over a new definition of cloud
infrastructure. The infrastructure is a stop
on the journey, not a destination in and
of itself. The ability to choose the right
workload on the right platform with the
right cost is really what everyone was
looking for in the first place. Public cloud
is not the enemy yet being wholly locked
into it is. IT wants the power to make
informed decisions and to own influence
and control of IT decisions and spending.
The real solution is about making the
cloud – as a whole – invisible. It’s about
hyperconverging the cloud. It’s about a
hybrid cloud environment with a seamless
experience between public and private
clouds so that the ‘where’ becomes
secondary to the ‘how’. How can we
enable our company to scale? How can
we deliver new applications? How can we
control costs? How can we get visibility
into our entire infrastructure? How can we
make better, more informed decisions?
Nutanix puts the reins back in the hands of
IT. Giving IT organisations freedom to focus
on the customer experience. Empowering
businesses to be agile and build future-
forward hybrid cloud infrastructure that
is invisible to the organisation but makes
the IT team visible. Not just visible –
empowered and relevant.
Why is Nutanix a leader in
Why
is Nutanix
a leader in Cloud and
Cloud
and Hyperconverged
Hyperconverged
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
(HCI)? (HCI)?
Cloud computing and hyperconvergence
are becoming the fundamental technology
engine for Digital Transformation
initiatives, including customer
engagement, internal operations and
updated business models. Nutanix has
been declared a ‘Leader’ again in the
November 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant
for Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
The company has also been named
as a leader in ‘The Forrester Wave:
Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q3 2018’
published by Forrester Research, Inc.
Nutanix has scored an average of 90
20
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in NPS (Net Promoter Score) for four
consecutive years.
We believe this is a strong validation of
our company’s leadership in the market it
pioneered and our vision to become the
next generation operating system for the
enterprise cloud.
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software
makes infrastructure invisible, elevating
IT to focus on the applications and
services that power businesses. The
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud platform blends
web-scale engineering and consumer-
grade design to natively converge server,
storage, virtualisation and networking
into a resilient, software-defined solution
with rich machine intelligence. The
result is predictable performance, cloud
consumption models, robust security
and seamless application mobility for all
enterprise applications at any scale.
Why
was was
2018 2018
a great
success success
for the
Why
a great
company?
for the company?
In 2018 Nutanix successfully introduced
market-changing technologies, as well
as created new partnerships to enable
the company to stay ahead in a very
competitive marketplace.
At the company’s annual NEXT. conference
in London in November 2018, Nutanix
announced the general availability of
Xi IoT, a new edge computing service
offered as part of the company’s Xi Cloud
Services. Nutanix Xi IoT brings intelligence
to the edge and enables best practice
for edge computing. The company also
launched Xi Cloud Services for the modern
multicloud era.
This new suite of offerings is designed
to create a more unified fabric across
different cloud environments, that
gives IT teams the freedom to run their
applications on the optimal platform, not
restricted by technology limitations.
In August last year Nutanix acquired
Frame. With Frame, Nutanix customers
will be able to deliver desktops-as-a-
service (DaaS) from multiple clouds,
combining the consumer-grade
simplicity and web-scale design of cloud
applications with the functionality of
traditional virtual desktop applications.
Earlier in 2018 the company launched
Nutanix Beam, a new software-as-a-
service (SaaS) offering that delivers
multi-cloud governance so organisations
can manage their spending, security
and regulatory compliance across nearly
any cloud platform. Beam is based
on Nutanix’s recently-acquired Minjar
Botmetric service, which is already used
to manage more than US$1 billion of
cloud spend across Amazon Web Services
(AWS) and Microsoft Azure. In the multi-
cloud era, IT organisations need a unified,
real-time view to all of their private, public
and distributed clouds. Beam services help
our customers optimise their cloud spend
and manage compliance, putting them
back in control of their IT assets.
The strategic acquisition of Netsil in early
2018 added next-generation application
discovery and operations management to
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS. The company
recently launched Nutanix Flow, a software-
defined networking (SDN) solution built
for the multi-cloud era. Flow provides
application-centric security to protect
against internal and external threats not
detected by traditional perimeter-oriented
security products. Flow capabilities are
enhanced with real-time application visibility
and discovery technology from Netsil.
What is Nutanix’s roadmap
What
Nutanix’s roadmap for 2019?
for is 2019?
In line with the global vision, on a regional
level Nutanix will continue to position
itself as the next generation operating
system for the enterprise cloud. We have
Gartner’s validation of being a leader in
the Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)
space. We want to be the first vendor
that comes to mind as a trusted partner
when enterprises in the region are ready
to transform their data centres, their IT
operations and their businesses. We will
continue introducing market-changing
new technologies and bringing on board
top new talent and partners to enable
the company to stay ahead in a very
competitive marketplace. ◊
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