Nutanix Weekly
Nutanix Weekly is a podcast from XenTegra about Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure and how it fits into hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. Episodes explain how Nutanix integrates with existing environments and simplifies management and operations through one-click solutions. The show covers always-on availability, intelligent automation, and operational simplicity for on-premises and cloud deployments. Listeners hear expert insights, real-world success stories, and interactive discussions about getting more from their IT environments.
Episodes
Building Resilience with Nutanix MST: Smarter Disaster Recovery for the Modern Enterprise
Disaster recovery is no longer just about backups. It is about resiliency, recovery speed, cyber readiness, and operational flexibility.In this episode of Nutanix Weekly, Phil Sellers is joined by Andy Greene and Chris Calhoun from XenTegra to break down Nutanix Multi-Cloud Snapshot Technology (MST) and how organizations are using it to modernize disaster recovery without overspending on infrastru
Nutanix Weekly: Migration Myth-Busting - Why Moving from VMware Isn’t as Scary as You Think
In the enterprise technology world, that maxim could easily be rewritten as: The only constant in IT is change. Platforms evolve, licensing models shift, and infrastructure decisions that felt solid five years ago suddenly need rethinking. For many organizations, that reality now includes re-evaluating their virtualization strategy and, in some cases, making the move from VMware to a different hyp
Nutanix Weekly: Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Nutanix Metro Availability
Host: Andy WhitesideCo-host: Harvey GreenCo-host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: Running NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Nutanix
Artificial Intelligence in the datacenter is one of the more exciting announcements from Nutanix in the last couple years and the partnership with NVIDIA is growing. In this episode, we walk through what it takes to run NVIDIA Inferencing Server on Nutanix and how that works with real-world implications that you can test yourself. Reference Blog: https://www.nutanix.dev/2024/01/15/running-nvidia-
Nutanix Weekly: Dell PowerStore Coming to Nutanix
The Nutanix Cloud Platform solution will soon support Dell PowerStore, our flagship enterprise all-flash storage platform —introducing a new virtualization option for external storage that brings together Dell’s trusted innovation with Nutanix’s modern cloud architecture.Blog Post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/dell-powerstore-coming-to-nutanixHost: Phil Sellers, XenTegraCo-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix
Nutanix Weekly: The Critical Role of Hybrid Multicloud
The pivot to a hybrid multicloud environment must form part of a CIO’s infrastructure strategy to take full advantage of next-generation solutions.The key for CIO’s and other C-level executives is to plan for and enable this critical eventuality in their enterprise. The compelling business case for adopting the shift to hybrid multicloud is highlighted in the sixth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (E
Nutanix Weekly: Honey I Shrunk My Cluster (Multiple Nodes Down in RF2)
Within Nutanix we have Replication Factor (How many data copies are written in the cluster) and Redundancy Factor (how many nodes/disks can go offline). Both can have a value of 2 and 3. What is what is explained here: Blog Post.So, when we have a larger cluster, we always recommend using RF3 (Redundancy Factor 3) as the risk is higher that you have multiple nodes/disks go offline at the same time
Nutanix Weekly: AOS 7.0 Launch Blog
We are excited to introduce the next major AOS release for the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution, Version 7.0. This release is designed to help customers enhance fault tolerance, simplify automation, strengthen security, and improve networking across their Nutanix infrastructure.Blog link: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/transform-your-cloud-experience-with-nutanix-aos-7-0-and-ahv-10Host: Phil Sellers,
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Central On-Premises: Bringing Cloud Simplicity to Your Data Center
Balance the speed of the cloud with the need to keep data secure and compliant with global sovereignty regulations: This is a core challenge for modern enterprises. Enterprises today need a single, consistent way to manage all their infrastructure across private datacenters, public clouds, and at the edge. Blog post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-central-on-premises by Adharsh Praveen, Ruhi
Nutanix Weekly: Objects 3.3: Improved Efficiency and Time-to-Value
At Nutanix, our customers are increasingly looking to move to a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud world and are looking to leverage the latest technologies both on- and off-premises to gain the highest levels of efficiency and flexibility. With the Nutanix Objects™ release v.3.3, we’re extending our capabilities to include a number of new features that allow customers to fully leverage cloud-native tech
Nutanix Weekly: Introducing AOS 6.1
This week Nutanix announced the general availability release of our AOS™ 6.1 infrastructure software, delivering to customers higher performance, simpler management, enhanced orchestration capabilities, and more. The new functionality enhances the value of our customers’ HCI deployments and further simplifies deployment and provisioning, and customers can easily upgrade to this new version to bene
Nutanix Weekly: Migration to AHV Brownfield Considerations
As far as analysts and customers were concerned, hypervisors within the datacenter were a very mature segment that had been on cruise control for the past decade.VMware was a leader for most of the 21st century. However, during the past decade, Nutanix has been developing AHV to meet customer demand and has made steady and noteworthy progress.Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/migration-to-ahv-bro
Nutanix Weekly: Introducing Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for External Storage
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the NCI Compute product, enabling Nutanix customers to leverage external storage as part of their NCP deployments.The first supported solution at launch is the Nutanix Cloud Platform with Dell PowerFlex, a complete server-based infrastructure solution designed for large mission-critical environments where resiliency, security, scalability, and
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Unified Storage Takes the Lead in MLPerf Storage v1.0 Benchmark
Nutanix Unified Storage™ is now a leader in AI storage performance using the latest MLPerf™ Storage v1.0 benchmark, with a 2x performance improvement over last year’s result, establishing NUS as a gold standard for AI and machine learning applications.Source Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-unified-storage-wins-the-mlperf-storage-v10-benchmarkHost: Phil SellersCo-Host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: Just-in-Time Cloud Storage for Nutanix Cloud Clusters
In the first iteration of Nutanix Cloud Clusters, your built-in NVMe storage was the only capacity you could tap into. With Nutanix's recent announcement of Just-In-Time storage with AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) you can now customize the amount of storage you need in a cluster with expansion capabilities. In this episode, we talk about the news from a blog post on nutanix.com posted by Dewayn
Nutanix Weekly: 7 Reasons to Ditch SAN and Move to HCI
Chances are, traditional SAN has been part of your lineup for many years—and you’ve likely wondered, “what else is out there?” We've been conducting some in-depth field research and discovered that HCI truly is the way to go.But in the interest of fairness, we wanted to share some of the most compelling reasons to move to HCI from your SAN solution.If your goal is to accelerate your digital transf
Nutanix Weekly: What's New in Nutanix AOS 6
Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Harvey Green Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: Bursting 2,000 Citrix Desktops to AWS in Under 2 Hours with Nutanix Clusters
With today’s distributed workforce it’s imperative that you have the ability to quickly enable your workforce to be productive working from anywhere, with secure remote access to applications, desktops, and data. Over the last several months the increased remote work requirements have put a focus on IT to rapidly support distributed workforce needs. To allow IT to rapidly provision infrastructure
Nutanix Weekly: Updates to Nutanix Files
These podcasts discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. In this episode, we discuss the following: Updates to Nutanix Files"Nutanix Files 3.8 includes new features, resolved issues, and the concurrent release of the Files Manager 2.0."Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: Introduction and Kickoff
These sessions discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix."Nutanix strives to delight customers with a simple, flexible, and cost-efficient cloud platform, one that offers freedom of choice and enables true hybrid and multi-cloud computing."Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: How a Complete and Open Kubernetes Platform Can Future-Proof Your Business
As Kubernetes® continues to reign as the worldwide container orchestration system of choice, many organizations and independent software vendors (ISVs) are realizing that its capabilities could be an essential key to ongoing and future business success.Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/how-a-complete-and-open-kubernetes-platform-can-future-proof-your-business by Dan CiruliHost: Phil Sellers, XenT
Nutanix Weekly: Modernizing Infrastructure: A C-Suite Guide to Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
Digital transformation demands infrastructure that seamlessly spans cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI) enables this unified operational model—reducing complexity, enhancing agility, and supporting workload mobility and policy enforcement.Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/executive/thought-leadership/a-c-suite-guide-to-distributed-hybrid-infrastructureHos
Nutanix Weekly: Enhanced Backup and Restore in Nutanix Prism
The Nutanix Prism management console is your single pane of glass for managing Nutanix clusters, whether they are on-premises or in the cloud. With the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 7.3 release, we're introducing powerful enhancements to backup and restore capabilities, giving you more flexibility and control over your data protection strategy.Blog Post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/enhanced-
Nutanix Weekly: Cloud Ready, Azure Steady
The rapid increase in data generation is making cloud storage an essential part of modern IT infrastructure. Driven by factors such as digitalization, the Internet of Things (IoT), social media, AI, and remote work, the volume of data created daily is staggering. Blog post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/the-next-release-of-nutanix-unified-storage-is-here from Ujwal Datta & Alex AlmeidaHost: Phi
Nutanix Weekly: A Breakout Year for Nutanix Container Management
Containers have become the cornerstone of modern application development, enabling agility, scalability, and portability across environments. Just one year ago, we launched Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution with a bold mission: to simplify Kubernetes® for the enterprise and make hybrid multicloud container management effortless.Blog post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/breakout-year-for-nut
Nutanix Weekly: Announcing Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Google Cloud Public Preview
Expanding freedom of choice and workload mobility have long been core to the evolution of Nutanix products. We’re pleased to announce a path to another major cloud provider with the addition of the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) solution on Google Cloud public preview.Blog Post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/announcing-nutanix-cloud-clusters-on-google-cloud-public-previewHost: Phil Sellers, XenTegraC
Nutanix Weekly: 100th Episode Celebration
We're got a milestone with 100 episodes where we will recap some of our best moments from the first 99 episodes, some behind the scenes stories, with trivia and prizes. Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegraCo-Host: Jirah Cox, NutanixCo-Host: Ben Rogers, NutanixCo-host: Chris Calhoun, XenTegraCo-host: Andy Greene, XenTegraSpecial Guest: Tom Powell, Nutanix
Nutanix Weekly: Multiple Clouds or Multicloud? Understanding the Key Differences
The terms “multiple clouds” and “multicloud” are often used interchangeably, but they represent distinctly different approaches to cloud strategy.Blog post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/multiple-clouds-or-multicloud-understanding-the-key-differencesHost: Phil Sellers, Practice Director for Modern DatacenterCo-host: Andy Greene, Solutions ArchitectCo-host: Chris Calhoun, Solutions Architect
Nutanix Weekly: Elevate Your IT Infrastructure with Long-Term Support Release: Nutanix AOS 6.10
Discover the new Nutanix AOS 6.10 release - the next cornerstone for the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution. This Long-Term Support (LTS) release not only enhances performance, manageability, and security but also marks a new era for hybrid multicloud capabilities. Combining features from versions 6.6 through 6.81 into a single update, AOS 6.10 represents a significant advancement amidst the rapid
Nutanix Weekly: Interview with NTC Andrea Ribeiro - technologist, blogger & NUG leader
A slightly different episode this week for Nutanix Weekly. This session is a conversation with Nutanix Technology Champion, Andrea Ribeiro. Andrea is a Nutanix User Group leader for Sao Paulo, Brazil, and she is a blogger and community participant focused on Nutanix. We talk about how she got started contributing to the Nutanix community, gaining the recognition of Nutanix and peers. Host: Phi
Nutanix Weekly: Recap from Nutanix .NEXT 2024 in Barcelona
This week is a special episode, recorded live from the Nutanix .NEXT 2024 event in Barcelona, Spain. On Tuesday, Nutanix held a keynote that unwrapped new capabilities in their software platform, focusing on AI and Cloud Native applications along with extending the reach of Nutanix AOS onto native cloud services in AWS. We will recap all the major announcements from new releases and software to
Nutanix Weekly: Announcing the General Availability of Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes
Today we are proud to announce the general availability of Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK). NDK extends Nutanix Cloud Platform infrastructure capabilities to application-centric data services for containerized workloads. With NDK 1.0, platform engineers can make it incredibly easy for developers to build and run containerized workloads without scrambling for storage management resources
Nutanix Weekly: Going Cloud Native: Build Apps Once, Deploy Anywhere
As organizations adopt strategies to remain agile and competitive, cloud-native containerized applications are becoming a business imperative. In fact, the 5th annual Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index article reported nearly all 1,450 IT decision makers surveyed (94%) reported having deployed Kubernetes® containerization which is the most commonly used cloud-native framework.Embracing the concept of
Nutanix Weekly: Infrastructure Matters: Making Workload Migration Efficient and Cost-Effective
As organizations advance in their digital transformation journeys, they’re creating more applications than ever to meet modern customer and internal demands. Whether its cloud-native applications, traditional applications deployed in on-premises datacenters or modern applications deployed at edge locations, the number of apps is skyrocketing. In the 5th Annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) study co
Nutanix Weekly: Beyond Ransom & Recovery: Defend Your Data Proactively with Nutanix Data Lens
Unstructured Data Under SiegeIn today’s digital age, data is the lifeline of businesses. It drives decision-making, influences strategies, and unveils market insights that can propel any organization ahead of its competitors. However, much of this data is unstructured, creating challenges with data visibility, and making it more vulnerable to cyber attacks and insider threats. The complexity of de
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Files Storage Episode 4.4 - Synchronous Replication Awakens
For mission-critical applications in various industries like banking, capital markets, insurance and healthcare, there is a need to support highly available synchronous data replication to ensure high level platform protection and availability. Providing this functionality is key for a business to function unhindered. The cost of data unavailability can be significant to a business, with some esti
Nutanix Weekly: Simplifying Access to Geo Distributed Object Data Using Global Namespaces
Federation is an exciting and important new feature that was added to Nutanix Objects in the 4.0 release (Spring 2023). It enables a global namespace to be created across multiple Nutanix object stores, even if they are thousands of miles apart in entirely different geographic locations. Buckets hosted by these different object stores then appear to exist within a single object store, offering a c
Nutanix Weekly: Introducing the Optimized Database Solution
Customers with the most demanding workloads will be excited to see the latest expansion of database support on the Nutanix Cloud Platform that provides a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and optimizes performance. The enhancements, which became available to Nutanix customers as part of the AOS 6.6.2 release, include support for compute-only nodes running either VMware ESXi or Nutanix AHV alon
Nutanix Weekly: New NCM Cost Governance Test Drive Reins in Cloud Costs
The Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Cost Governance™ solution is ideal for customers challenged by the ongoing analysis and reporting of spend by cost center, driving accountability against budgets, and finding opportunities to optimize your cloud spend. Through one unified interface, NCM Cost Governance allows customers to manage costs across their public, private, and hybrid multicloud environments.
Nutanix Weekly: Powering Your Hybrid IT Strategy
The recent pandemic upped the ante on IT modernization as most organizations accelerated cloud deployments to support workforces that distributed overnight. Now as we emerge on the other side, many enterprises are reexamining their workload deployments in the face of escalating cloud costs. Indeed, Gartner® predicts that “by 2027, 85 percent of the workload placements made until 2022 will no long
Nutanix Weekly: Introducing AOS 6.5 - HCI Will Never Be the Same
Get excited! The latest upgrade to the core Nutanix® hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software is live. The AOS™ 6.5 release is our most comprehensive update ever, with improved performance, security, and integrated data services required for demanding database workloads and business critical applications. We encourage you to take a fresh look at AOS 6.5 while keeping three key things in mind:
Nutanix Weekly: Convert Your Cluster to AHV and Configure Leap for Disaster Recovery
On my previous blog (Link) I showed you how to build a metro availability. Now I want to "upgrade" both clusters to AHV and enable data protection with the help of Leap to achieve an RPO of zero (0).This blog post are two posts combined. First is the in-place conversion of ESX to AHV and the second is how to enable and configure Leap.Host: Harvey GreenCo-host: Jirah CoxCo-host: Ben Rogers
Nutanix Weekly: Kickstart 2022 By Simplifying Your Database Operations
新年快樂! Wishing those who celebrate a prosperous and healthy Year of the Tiger! With new year celebrations, comes resolve. Usually everyone does this one January 1, but it’s never too late to celebrate the new year and make a new resolve. 2022 is in full swing and that means understanding your database challenges and simplifying that complexity should be at the top of your priority list. Let’s make
Nutanix Weekly: What is Hyperconverged Storage?
Hyperconverged storage is a part of hyperconverged infrastructure that brings cloud architecture to IT datacenters and powers modern enterprise applications without the need for dedicated storage arrays and storage teams. It uses distributed storage algorithms to keep data protected, available, and secure at all times. Compared to traditional infrastructure, hyperconverged storage makes it easier
Nutanix Weekly: Modern Infrastructure for Better Digital Learning Experience
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, and Citrix Systems, Inc. formed a strategic partnership to help you build a simple, secure, and performant infrastructure for a digital learning environment. From K-12 to research universities, running Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops on the Nutanix® Cloud Platform simplifies solutions, enhances security, and delivers excellent student and staff e
Nutanix Weekly: Using a Bloomberg Keyboard with Nutanix Frame!
We are very excited to share a demo of the new Generic USB Redirection feature of the Nutanix Frame® DaaS solution (which is now available in Early Access with the release of Frame App for Windows 6.7 and later)!Generic USB Redirection further expands Frame’s support for USB peripheral devices, including advanced/specialty devices such as Bloomberg® keyboards!In this blog we will demonstrate the s
Nutanix Weekly: .NEXT Top Sessions
The dust has settled from the Nutanix .NEXT 2021 Digital event and we are thrilled with the outcome! Attendees were able to immerse themselves in the latest hybrid multicloud advancements that will help them digitize and transform their businesses, improve activity, deliver innovative customer and employee experiences, and gain a competitive edge.There’s still time to catch up on all that you miss
Nutanix Weekly: Enhancing the Security of Application Delivery in Frame
Nutanix’s Frame® desktop-as-a-service, with its ability to deliver virtual desktops and applications on non-persistent virtual machines, is a key part of the security posture of many customers. When combined with Frame application mode, which eliminates the Windows® Desktop and focuses the end user on a single set of published applications, Frame provides enterprises with a secure way to deliver W
Nutanix Weekly: Take Nutanix Test Drive 2.0 for a Spin
Ever wondered what it would take to build your own private cloud with Nutanix? Well, now you can try it out with the all-new Nutanix Test Drive 2.0. If you want to experience frictionless IT, you can put our software to the test in this new and improved demo.We’re excited to deliver this new release so that you can test out the infrastructure that thousands of companies rely on every day for fast,
Nutanix Weekly: .NEXT 2021 Recap with the Team
In this week's episode, we cover the top 10ish announcements from Nutanix .NEXT 2021 according to Jirah. With a few interruptions from his friends.Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Harvey GreenCo-Host: Jirah CoxGuest: Randy BrownGuest: Jeff Melnick
Nutanix Weekly Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Xi Leap DRaaS: Standing the Test of Time Believe It or Not, Nutanix’s Xi Leap DRaaS Just Got Simpler!
Xi Leap is a natively integrated DR Service that serves as a seamless extension to the onprem infrastructure - thus providing a true hybrid cloud experience. Customers can configure Protection Policies and Recovery Plans to protect and recover applications in case of a disaster OnPremises to the Cloud. True to Nutanix’s design principle of simplicity, a lot of complexity associated with traditiona
Nutanix Weekly: Data Analytics & CybersecurityTrends, Threats & Tales From The Cyber Crypt
Many organizations’ plans around digital transformation and work from anywhere (WFA) initiatives were realized in 2020. Why? Simple, you either delivered it so your organization could continue to conduct business, or you couldn’t, and your business has struggled to keep pace. At its core, digital transformation is business transformation. And doing business in 2020 was disrupted by the pandemic.H
Nutanix Weekly: Built-in Security Across Platform, Data, Network and Applications
So far in 2025, enterprises have faced a surge in sophisticated cyberattacks — with ransomware, data breaches, and social engineering attacks dominating the threat landscape. AI is playing an increasing role in attacks. Almost 9 in 10 global organizations (87%) faced an AI-powered cyber attack in the last year. Recent cuts in funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Nutanix Weekly: Empower Nutanix Data Protection With New HYCU Innovation
This week, we talk with Subbiah Sundaram from HYCU, one of the strongest Nutanix ecosystem partners, about the recent innovations and protections for data hosted in Nutanix services. HYCU was first to market with support for AHV backups, the collaborated with Nutanix to develop backup APIs for Nutanix Files and most recently, HYCU announced support for Nutanix Database Services or NDB, during the
Nutanix Weekly: Seven Ways to Simplify Your Digital Workspace Deployment in 2021
The modern workplace has changed dramatically since the COVID 19 pandemic, and organizations everywhere are adopting digital workspace solutions to ensure business productivity, continuity, agility, and security, all while lowering costs.Digital workspaces are not a new idea, but too often deployment and operational complexity have kept organizations from realizing the benefits these solutions off
Nutanix Weekly: Understanding Layer 2 stretch in Nutanix Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service
PurposeThe infrastructure for Nutanix Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) supports a tenant cluster and a production virtual private cloud (VPC) for each customer. Customers generally have production VMs running in their on-premises cluster, which is connected to the DRaaS VPC using an IPsec tunnel. This is used by the DRaaS workflow to replicate on-premises production data.During a disaster re
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Files 4.0 New Features: Smart DR Enhancements
Introduced with the Nutanix Files™ release 3.8, Smart DR brought share-level replication between active file server instances for disaster recovery. If you’re not yet familiar with Smart DR, you can get an overview of the feature and its benefits here. Shortly after its initial release, Nutanix introduced 1-minute replication interval support with the Files 3.8.1 release. The recent Files release
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Files 4.0 New Features: Performance Improvements
The Nutanix Files™storage solution introduces new enhancements in its newest 4.0 release that improve client performance, enhance file server compute efficiency, and deliver a consistent experience in mixed environments. We’ve also done some scalability testing we’re excited to share.Improving Synchronous Random Write PerformanceCPU Scheduling with NFSFlow Control with Nutanix VolumesPushing the
Nutanix Weekly: Elevating hybrid cloud for AI, databases and general-purpose workloads at Microsoft Ignite
Hybrid clouds are gaining popularity and maturity as organizations juggle workloads with different performance, governance and efficiency requirements. Nutanix has long held the view that most organizations will require both on-premises and public cloud presence.As a result, Nutanix has invested in building a platform that provides the best way to create a unified hybrid cloud architecture. At Mic
Nutanix Weekly: Elastic SAN and Nutanix Move for Azure VMware Solution With NC2
Nutanix is excited to announce the upcoming tech-preview of Elastic SAN support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure solution and the ability to easily move workloads from Azure VMware Solution (AVS) to NC2 on Azure with the Nutanix Move migration tool.Blog Post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/elastic-san-and-nutanix-move-for-azure-vmware-solution-with-nc2Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegraCo-Host: Ji
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Files Episode 4.1 - A Security Story
With unstructured data growing exponentially, securing shared storage is increasingly becoming difficult. It is an operational nightmare to identify datacenter weak points let alone predict the next threat. Ransomware attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated, surpassing firewalls and anti-virus software. Does this sound familiar? You plug one hole another opens, you update software, you tr
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix and AMD Break the User Density Bottleneck
When provisioning End User Computing (EUC) solutions (providing virtual desktops and applications to end users) hardware and software limitations have kept the conversations centered on finding a balance between maximum density and the most optimal user experience. In this blog, I’ll describe how innovation from Nutanix and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) effectively eliminate this constraint,
Nutanix Weekly: Moving from Multiple Clouds to Multicloud: 6 Steps to Creating a Modern Environment (Part 2)
Podcast Part 2 >> When you’re ready to make the move to a unified hybrid multicloud environment, it might seem daunting at first. You are most likely currently managing multiple operational silos across public, private, and possibly hybrid clouds and have been for years, and adapting to the minor and major inconveniences those disparate environments are causing you today.Blog post: https://w
Nutanix Weekly: Top 5 DaaS Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - Part 1 of 5: Sizing Workload VMs
Unfortunately, DaaS also “ain’t all sunshine and rainbows” (or, if it were up to me, BMW motorcycles and bacon cheeseburgers 😋).More often than not, even the most experienced IT professionals will still run into TCO, design, sizing, user experience, and administration challenges when it comes to DaaS. Folks seem to forget that matching the right use case to the right solution, managing expectation
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Flow Security Best Practices Part 1 – What is Flow Network Security?
In this multi-part series, the goal is to first familiarize you with the solution and then provide guidance on preparing to deploy Flow Network Security and help you learn the constructs that form your policy framework.So, what is Flow Network Security? By now, you may have heard the name, read about it or had a conversation about it with a Nutanix employee. First off, and in most basic terms, F
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Unified Storage: Ideal for High-Performance AI and Modern Data-Intensive Workloads
We recently commissioned International Data Corporation (IDC) to evaluate the use of Nutanix Objects Storage for modern, data-intensive workloads. IDC examined the evolution of Object Storage which has ranged from cold data repositories for backups and archives to newer, high-performance object stores for data-intensive workloads. The study also involves insightful interviews with Nutanix customer
Nutanix Weekly: Third Annual ECI Report: How the Pandemic Raised IT’s Profile and Paved a Clearer Pathway to Hybrid Cloud
These sessions discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. In this episode, we discuss the following: Third Annual ECI Report: How the Pandemic Raised IT’s Profile and Paved a Clearer Pathway to Hybrid Cloud"Today, we announced the findings from our third annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, measuring enterprise progress with the adoption of
Nutanix Weekly: Lenovo and Nutanix Deliver a Complete Hosted Desktop Environment for One Monthly Charge
Dramatic Increase in Remote WorkforceWorking from home, or is it living at work? Nearly everyone has been affected, either directly or indirectly, by the shift to remote work.Although remote work had been increasingly common, the pandemic caused a spike that has fundamentally altered attitudes by both employees and employers. FlexJobs.com reports that “a Gartner survey of company leaders found th
Nutanix Weekly: Live from .NEXT 2023 - Nutanix Announces a vision for Platform-as-a-Service solutions and new capabilities for the hybrid multicloud
During its annual .NEXT conference, Nutanix, the leading provider of hybrid multicloud infrastructure solutions, unveiled a series of new product offerings and an ambitious vision to help customers streamline their operations across distributed environments and accelerate the deployment of modern applications.Project BeaconNutanix announced Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver a portfoli
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix AHV and Nutanix Move: A Year of Remarkable Success and 100,000+ Virtual Machine Migrations
One of the leading concerns of moving to a new hypervisor is the perceived risk and cost of migrating. Nutanix Move makes migrating to Nutanix AHV simple, and over the past year, more than 100,000 virtual machines (VMs) have been migrated to AHV. While there are several ways to migrate from traditional 3-tier infrastructure or competing on-premises or public platforms, multiple factors are leadin
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix® Solutions Provide Data and Security Protection for State, Local, and Education Organizations
Cybersecurity attacks are becoming progressively complex with an increase in Cloud, Digitization, and Work-from-Anywhere practices. State, Local, and Education (SLED) organizations must begin improving their security posture and aligning to a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). Since organizations are required to move away from perimeter-based security solutions, they will need to modernize their IT
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Lifecycle Management 2.6 is Here! Check out the Top 5 Coolest Features of LCM
As new cybersecurity threats evolve, Nutanix has been hard at work improving the way you patch, upgrade, and operate your Nutanix Cloud Platform. We understand how critical and difficult patching and upgrading can be, especially in a world under constant attack. You must be resilient, and proper lifecycle management improves your cyber resilience!We know that upgrades can be a bit intimidating, bu
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Cloud Platform on Equinix Metal: Combine the power of the Nutanix cloud stack with the bare-metal performance and global reach of Equinix
Fast and flexible access to IT infrastructure has become a critical success factor for modern business. Nutanix and Equinix have joined up to help enterprise IT teams reduce time to market for new applications and services. Equinix Metal™ enables as-a-service infrastructure deployment globally and rapid scalability for hyperconverged infrastructure using the Nutanix® Cloud Platform, enabling you t
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix and Canonical Partner to Simplify Kubernetes Deployments with NKP and Ubuntu Pro
Nutanix is excited to announce our new partnership with Canonical Ltd., the publisher of Ubuntu and provider of open source security, support and services. Through this partnership, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) customers will have the option to choose a well-supported and secure Linux operating system for NKP to help simplify Kubernetes® installation and adoption—reitenforcing the engineering
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Mine advances data protection mission with Commvault
Today, we are proud to announce the availability of Nutanix Mine™ with Commvault®. Nutanix and Commvault have had a longstanding partnership over the last six years. Commvault was the first partner to provide data protection as a simple, secure, and transformative reality for our joint customers. Data protection has become a global IT directive across countries, industries, and organizations that
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Calm Overview
These podcasts discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. In this episode, we discuss the following: Nutanix Calm Overview. Calm is a multi-cloud application management framework delivered by Nutanix. Calm provides application automation and lifecycle management natively integrated into the Nutanix Platform. With Calm, applications are defined via simple blueprints th
Nutanix of Weekly: How To Ransomware Proof your Backups
Organizations worldwide are in the midst of a massive wave of cybersecurity threats. Gartner reported that “ransomware families have grown by more than 700% in the last few years.” Every company is struggling to protect their data - the most important digital asset. As these attacks continue to mature both in frequency and intensity, their impact on business has grown exponentially. It is no longe
Nutanix Weekly: Trekking through IT’s Automation Transformation
To cut through the ubiquitous noise of automation hype, let’s briefly talk at a high-level about the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure industry’s automation journey and provide applicable guidance regardless of where you may be along your unique journey.With recent advances in automation, machine learning, data analytics, and cloud computing, we are all expected to achieve more with less.
Nutanix Weekly: Top 10 Reasons to Run Epic Infrastructure on Nutanix
These podcasts discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. In this episode, we discuss the following: Top 10 Reasons to Run Epic Infrastructure on Nutanix"Nutanix provides an overwhelming value that compels Epic customers to lean-in to innovation and away from concerns. Read why in the Top 10 Reasons to run Epic on Nutanix."Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: Windows OS Optimization Essentials Part 2: Microsoft Store
Operating systems can end up being a lot of work for administrators. They need to work to configure the image, install the applications, and provide the best user experience possible. As with any software, what is provided to you is what the developer intended, but not necessarily what you want or need for your end users.This blog series introduces you to Microsoft Windows® Operating System (OS) o
