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Want to know more about Nutanix Volumes? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further! Here is your one stop shop to all things Volumes.  With Nutanix Volumes, you bridge the physical and virtual, consolidating infrastructure into a single unified platform. Want to learn how? Take advantage of these great resources so that you’re using Volumes to its fullest potential! Take our

Our .NEXT digital experience is now available on-demand. Watch three certification sessions covering our top certification programs, plus learn how you could win a $50 Amazon gift card.  Now available for a limited time, you can watch the latest .NEXT Certification sessions on-demand! Our own Jon Hall and Mark Brunstad cover our popular certification programs and available resources to help you succeed on the exam. Below is an overview of each certification session. ED1: Intro to Nutanix Certifications and the Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) Program Certification Director, Jon Hall, discusses the Nutanix University certification framework, beginning with the

This blog was authored by Michael Haigh Technical Marketing Engineer NutanixAt KubeCon North America 2019 in San Diego, JFrog announced the availability of the JFrog Container Registry, which enables users to securely store, manage, and control their Docker containers and Helm charts, at no cost. Container registries are one of the most fundamental components for building Cloud Native applications and enabling Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery in your environment, so it’s critical to choose a proven, secure, and reliable platform like JFrog. JFrog has become a household name for many cloud-native enterprises, and is an industry leader in CI/CD and DevOps with its large portfolio of products, including

We continue our look back at our .NEXT user conference and Today we join Thomas Cornely, SVP Product Portfolio , as he addresses the vision of making cloud complexity invisible. Saveen Pakala, VP Product Management,, talks elastic disaster recovery and Finally Anindo Sengupta, Sr Director Product Management as he discusses the customers experience with the Unified Hybrid Multicloud. Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions 6 .NEXT Breakout Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss! Rethinking Storage For A Data Centric World

We’ve updated our most popular training course and certification to cover Nutanix AOS 5.20. Continue reading to find out how you can take the exam for free!  Earlier this year we released AOS 5.20 and here’s the news you’ve all been waiting for — The Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA) training course and Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification for AOS 5.20 are now available! Be the first of your peers to hone your 5.20 skills. ECA Training Course The new Nutanix EC

Want to know more about Nutanix Objects? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further! Here is your one stop shop to all things Objects.  With Nutanix Objects, you can forget point solutions, silos, and complexity. Add simple, flexible, S3-compatible object storage to your hybrid cloud to massive scale object storage with ease. Want to learn how? Take advantage of these great resources so that you’re using Objects to its fu

This blog series provides the new feature updates that have been GA’d through the Nutanix Files 4.0 release.This is the second of four blogs to teach you about the new features in Nutanix Files 4.0.We will update the other blogs as they are posted:Blog 1: Smart Tiering Blog 3: Performance Improvements Blog 4 Smart DR EnhancementsNu

This blog series provides the new feature updates that are GA through the Nutanix Files 4.0 release.This is the first of four blogs to teach you about the new features in Nutanix Files 4.0.We will update the other blogs as they are posted:Blog 2: New GUI Blog 3: Performance Improvements Blog 4 Smart DR EnhancementsAdministrators with large scale Network Attached Storage (NAS) environments frequently look for ways to improve storage efficiency, ease of administration, and lower cost.  With Nutanix Fil

Over the next few weeks will be looking back on our user conference .NEXT and share keynotes and panel discussions. On today's podcast we have Rajiv Mirani, Chief Technology Officer, Ketan Shah, VP Product Management and Luke Congdon, Sr Director Product Management, they discuss the new AOS 6 capabilities including updates on enterprise AHV.Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions Announcing Nutanix AOS 6 Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Nutanix and Microsoft Azure Disaster Recovery with Nutanix AOS 6

Digital transformation is not characterized by the rampant adoption of new-age technologies, but by the end objective achieved by introducing simplicity and agility, that comes with it, in key areas that keeps the business running.In the world of digitization, the customer's expectations are to address the business challenges of their data center and leverage niche technologies to adapt, grow and transform the business processes that deliver solutions to resolve the pain points and give a hybrid platform to use functionalities of on-premises and public cloud capabilities. Organizations have been exploring the public cloud platform, but are not fully satisfied with the capabilities that it offers. It gets expensive in the long run.The organization’s business model/KPI, customer’s digital adoption, IT maturity, application landscape, and strategic alignment play a pivotal role in choosing the hybrid cloud. The objective of this blog is to highlight the key business drive

This week we will be looking back on our user conference .NEXT and share keynotes and panel discussions. On today's podcast we have our CEO Rajiv Ramaswami who unpacks the path forward for Nutanix and who chats with Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz about the cloud paradox. Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox Make your Mark in 2022 and Become a Nutanix Techno

Nutanix customers can set up a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection from their on-premises datacenter to the Nutanix DRaaS service to replicate their workloads and setup communication between the two. A VPN solution also enables secure communication between your on-premises Prism® Central instance and the production Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in the Nutanix DRaaS service.This blog will cover the following:How to enable workload communication between on-premises and your Nutanix DRaaS in the following scenarios:Nutanix managed VPN appliance on-premises to Nutanix VPN appliance on your Nutanix DRaaS. Third party VPN on-premises to Nutanix VPN appliance on your Nutanix DRaaS.Nut

Want to know more about Nutanix Leap? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further. Here is your complete guide to Nutanix Leap training resources available through Nutanix University.  As companies come to rely on virtualized applications and infrastructure, their legacy data protection and disaster recovery solutions can no longer provide adequate protection. This leaves them increasingly vulnerable to data loss and downtime during disasters. With Nutani

This blog was authored by Gourab Baksi Principal Product Manager NutanixThis first blog in the three-part series on Metro Availability for AHV focuses on how to achieve zero data loss with Protection Policies in Prism Central at VM granularity.For mission-critical applications in various industry sectors like banking, capital markets, insurance, healthcare, and emergency life support services, 24x7x365 uptime is key for the business to function unhindered. In such cases, applications need to have transparent visibility into underlying IT infrastructure failures, including hardware components (disk, network cards, power supply), racks, clusters, or sites. A 2014 Gartner study puts the cost of downtime at $5,600 per minut

Want to know more about Nutanix Karbon? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further! Here is your one stop shop to all things Karbon.  With Nutanix Karbon, you deliver and manage an end-to-end, production-ready Kubernetes environment with push-button simplicity while preserving a native user experience. Want to learn how? Take advantage of these great resources so that you’re using Karbon to its fullest potential. Take our Training Courses

Are You Ready for Advanced Training? Nutanix University offers training for a variety of IT roles, at every level of experience. But with such a large catalog it can be a little confusing deciding which course is the right one.  Enter our Readiness Evaluations. The first one of its kind, the readiness evaluation for our Advanced Administration & Performance Management (AAPM) course is designed to ensure you have the right Nutanix admin knowledge to fully benefit from the AAPM course. The objective is to gauge your current Nutanix administrative knowledge -- not just general virtualization or cloud knowledge

The Nutanix Certified Expert (NCX) certification tests candidates on their ability to create and deliver Cloud-Smart solutions that leverage the Nutanix stack for Private Cloud and the best offerings from our Public Cloud partners for hybrid services.Every NCX is an expert in their field and has the proven ability to design enterprise-scale solutions that support business-critical applications with service level agreements specified by business stakeholders.Recently we caught up with Nick Hartman to talk about his experience earning this expert-level certification and to get his advice for other professionals looking to earn their NCX. Can you tell us a little bit about your IT background? I’ve worked in IT for 20 years in a multitude of roles and industries. I got the chance to work in many different IT areas, which I can’t stress enough, as a professional you want to spend time in different areas like network, security, infrastructu

The 2022 Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) applications are open!We are accepting submissions up to November 2, 2021, at midnight PST. We will announce the new group in December 2021.This program recognizes Nutanix hybrid multicloud experts for their ongoing and consistent external contributions to the community and industry. Nutanix Technology Champions are our advocates and technology ambassadors who influence change with practical advice and bold ideas.The NTC program provides unique opportunities to expand their knowledge further, amplify their brand, and help shape the future of the hybrid multicloud.Benefits to program members include:Early access briefings about Nutanix products and announcements Access to private betas and insight into ongoing product development Participation in exclusive meetings with engineering teams Access to discussions on the Nutanix NTC slack channel with internal teams Uniqu

As a boxing fan in the 90’s and 2000’s, I watched the most famous boxers of the era rise from naturally-talented newcomers to dominators in the ring. And while their talent and hard work propelled them early in their careers, they were never satisfied with their current skills and conditioning. They continued to work hard on improving hand speed, movement, conditioning, and power en route to many years as champions of their respective weight classes. Now you may be asking yourself, what does boxing have to do with replication or Nutanix? Well, Nutanix, like the boxing legends we all know, continues to hone and improve our products with new capabilities, better performance, easier to navigate UI’s, etc. We don't have a “good enough” mindset where once we deliver a capability, we move onto the next. We continue to iterate and improve on it.

Want to know more about Nutanix Flow? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further! Here is your complete guide to Nutanix Flow training resources available through Nutanix University.  Now more than ever, network security is top of mind for every IT professional. Rapid infrastructure changes from legacy systems, to virtualized, to cloud-native have created additional layers of complexity and risk. With Flow, you can quickly deploy a powerful software-defined security solu

If you have an upcoming virtual instructor-led training (vILT) class scheduled or are thinking about enrolling in one, read on for our top 5 best tips to help you prepare.  vILT classes are a great way to receive detailed training from our expert instructors from the comfort of your home or office. With vILT, you can take advantage of:  Hands-on labs. Work with Nutanix products in a controlled environment and apply what you learned through detailed, interactive labs.  Q&A. Collaborate with your instructor and classmates and receive instant feedback.  Free exam voucher.

Want to know more about Nutanix Era? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further. Here is your complete guide to Nutanix Era training resources available through Nutanix University.  Now more than ever, data fidelity is mission critical for business operations. Databases are integral components for any computer architecture from healthcare to manufacturing, but they’re massive, complex, and time consuming to manage. Infrastructure downtime can be undesirable, but critical infrastructure can be restarted or fixed. Lost data, on the other ha

Learn about the top 6 things you should know when preparing for exam day.  You may have recently scheduled a certification exam, or maybe you’re planning on taking an exam in the future, so you might be wondering what you can expect on exam day. That’s why we’ve provided a list of the top 6 things you should know when preparing and setting up your location for exam day.Here are 6 essential things you should know when preparing for your exam:  Make sure you’re in a quiet, well-lit area with no other people besides yourself.  You should use one monitor during the exam. Any additional monitors will need to be stored away. 

The Nutanix Calm™ application orchestrator is the gateway to self-service for business users in the enterprise. Their journey starts with managing projects and users via Calm, launching applications, and managing routine operational tasks on day two.As a part of their daily routine, users rely on "Scaling" VMs in the application to support the varying demands of workloads running in the VMs. In Calm, the "Scale" profile action built into the blueprint is used to achieve horizontal scaling by deploying additional instances of a VM. However, until Calm 3.2.0, if the users wanted to vertically scale a VM, for example add more memory, or change any of the VM attributes on a running application, it was not directly possible and they had to go through an admin.As an example, the database admin (DBA) of a multi-tier application managed by Calm supporting retail transactions in an enterprise wants to upgrade the primary database with a higher configuration to support more tran

Do you want to know more about Nutanix Files? Have you been thinking about getting training and/or a certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further! Here is your one stop shop to all things Files.  With Nutanix Files, you can handle billions of files and tens of thousands of user sessions, scale your clusters, add more computing and/or memory to the file server VMs, and so much more. Want to learn how? Take advantage of these great resources so that you’re using Fi