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With log4j in the news, I thought we would bring on a couple of security and networking folks from Nutanix to talk about it. This week we have Eric Hammersley and Jason Burns who will give you some insight into how we are managing the log4j vulnerability. Flow Microsegmentation Test Drive Flow Tech TopX: Datacenter Security with Flow Security Advisory: Apache log4j2 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) Security AdvisoriesIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google 

Get an update on the Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) global community and learn how you can be part of it!  As we near the end of 2021, it’s time to take a look back at the top NCP program highlights and congratulate all of the new NCPs that joined the community in the past year. NCPs are now in over 126 countries around the world! Comment below to let us know which country you represent!View the top NCP highlights and how the program stacks up around the world. Click to enlarge image.  Congratulations to all those that became NCP certified this year! If you haven’t received your NCP certification yet, now is a great time to start! In a recent survey by Global Knowledge revealing the top paying certifications today, the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure ranked number eight on the list! » Click here to read the full article. Plus, for a limited time you can get a FREE certification exam when you complete a training course. » Click here to find out more abou

“Expand Your Horizons with Certification and Nutanix Technology Champions.” Read Stephen Linker’s story about how Nutanix training and certifications have helped him make an impact in his role as System Administrator.  Stephen Linker recently wrote about his Nutanix University training and certification experience and how it impacted his work as System Administrator at a university healthcare system.  Here’s what Stephen had to say about working in IT and becoming Nutanix certified: “I love working in IT because there’s always more to learn. Things change so quickly that you have to keep up, or you risk becoming obsolete or irrelevant. That reality motivates IT professionals to always up their game.Fortunately, Nutanix makes education easy. They offer free training through Nutanix University, so it felt like a no-brainer to get certified. I now have several certifications, including Nutanix Certified Professional, Nutanix Certified Professional—Data Services, and Nutanix Certified Mast

Register for the new NCP-MCI Exam Prep class and receive a free exam voucher!  Looking to brush up your knowledge before taking the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) exam? Then this one-day class is for you!  The new NCP-MCI Exam Prep class will review key exam topics and go through a set of test questions for each module. The class covers topics outlined in the NCP-MCI Exam Blueprint Guide that can be downloaded here.  With this instructor-led class, you’ll have an opportunity to ask questions and get real-time feedback along the way.  Plus, after you complete the course, you’ll receive a FREE NCP-MCI exam voucher!  Set yourself up for success and sign up today. Classes start on December 10. But don’t delay, seats are filling up fast!  » Click here to get started.  This article was written by Karlie Beil, Customer Marketing Specialist.   2021 Nutanix, Inc.  All rights reserved. Nutanix, the Nutanix logo and all Nutanix product, feature and service na

The Nutanix X-Play™ tool is a simple low-code/no-code automation feature built into the Nutanix Prism® management controller that helps you automate routine operations and tasks, and provides the ability to auto-remediate issues that may occur.Using the X-Play tool, you can define a set of actions or a series of actions (called a “playbook”) based on a trigger, such as an event, alert, or an incoming webhook. For example, you can set up a playbook so when an alert about a VM’s memory being constrained is detected, the playbook can automatically add a specified amount of memory to the VM.But what if you didn’t want this to automatically happen, but rather you wanted to route through an approval workflow so that an admin would have to approve the change before the memory was added? In this video, we give you a walkthrough how to set up an integrated automation process with ServiceNow describing exactly this.With the latest Test Drive update, you can set up a similar flow using our demo t

This week on the podcast Dwayne chats with Matt Slotten, who has done some really impressive work with moving a portion of our test drive environment on-prem. Think of it as Nutanix running on Nutanix! Dwayne and Matt dive deep into what was involved, what were some of the challenges and the surprising results. Oh and there is an interesting French fry story that both Dwayne and Matt share.Nutanix Test Drive Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions Nutanix community blog Nutanix user groupsIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

Today we join Theresa Payton, former White House CIO, Leading Cybersecurity Expert and CEO & Author, Fortalice Solutions, and Monica Kumar, SVP Marketing and Cloud at Nutanix. The pair unpack potential cyber threats on both the public and private sector. This is part of our look back series at .NEXT 2021.Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions Nutanix community blog Nutanix user groups Security Operations, Monitoring, and PlanningIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

This week we join Join Wendy Pfeiffer, Chief information officer for Nutanix, as she quizzes a distinguished .Next panel on the myths around cloud technology. Can employees operate as effectively from home as they did in the office? Is cyber security a bigger concern on the public cloud or on-prem? This is part of our look back series at .NEXT 2021.Watch on-demand .NEXT sessions Nutanix community blog Nutanix user groupsIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

Want to know more about Nutanix Mine? 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 Mine training resources available through Nutanix University.  In today’s business environment, it’s essential for companies to backup and recover applications and data. Most organizations have some form of backup infrastructure in their datacenter and primary workloads have benefited from hyperconverged infrastructure. However, most secondary storage and backup have remained on legacy or traditional infrastructure. This can lead to time consuming restore jobs and missed backup windows. With Nutanix Mine, you can perform impact-free application backups, recovery, and long-time archive - all on a single platform to help you unlock value from your data. Want to learn how? Take advantage of these great resources so that you’re using Mine to its fullest potential! Complete Nutanix Mine Training Gett

“Invest in Yourself and Learn How to Run a More Modern, Forward-Thinking Shop.” Read Jamie Terrell’s story about how Nutanix training and certifications helped him make an impact at the Florida Cancer Specialists and Research Institute.  Jamie Terrell recently wrote about his Nutanix University training and certification experience and how it impacted his work as Citrix Engineer at the Florida Cancer Specialists and Research Institute. Here’s what Jamie had to say about why he decided to become Nutanix certified: “Despite the ease and simplicity of Nutanix, I decided to pursue Nutanix certification. Many people get tunnel vision when it comes to the day-in, day-out aspects of a job, but the more you know, the more you can look at a problem from different angles. I also felt that certification would benefit my personal and professional growth. I now have three certifications under my belt.” He went on to talk about how Nutanix training and certifications have impacted his work: “My cert

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 Training CoursesGetting Started | Nutanix VolumesIn this free online course, we will give you an introduction into the foundations of Volumes that will give you the jump start you need to succeed!Data Services EssentialsLearn about data services and Nutanix data services technologies, specifically Nutanix Files, Nutanix Objects, and Nutanix Volumes.Nutanix Data Services AdministrationThis course teaches you the administrative skills needed to install, configure, manage, and upgrade three different Nutanix storage solution products: Nutanix Fi

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 NCA program and what comes next. He'll also review the training and other resources available to help you succeed on the exam.ED2: Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP): Everything you Need to Know on How to Prepare and Succeed Certification Director Jon Hall walks you through the Nutanix Certified Professional level of certificat

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 JFrog Artifactory.Pairing JFrog with Nutanix Karbon, gives you a production grade container registry in minutes, enabling your business to quickly react to changing landscapes. In this post, we will cover a couple of pre-requisites, we’ll then deploy JFrog Container registry on

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 Building an Agile Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Infrastructure with Solutions from Nutanix and IntelIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

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 ECA course will enable you to successfully configure and manage Nutanix AOS 5.20 in the datacenter using the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and command line interfaces (CLIs). You’ll also walk away with insight into a Nutanix cluster’s failover and self-healing capabilities, tips for solving common problems, and guidelines for collecting information when interacting with Nutanix Support.View Course NCP-MCI Certification ExamThe Nutanix NCP-MCI certification tests your skills and a

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 fullest potential! Take our Training CoursesGetting Started | Nutanix ObjectsIn this free online course, we will give you an introduction into the foundations of Objects that will give you the jump start you need to succeed!Data Services EssentialsLearn about data services and Nutanix data services technologies, specifically Nutanix Files, Nutanix Objects, and Nutanix Volumes.Nutanix Data Services AdministrationThis course teaches you the administrative skills needed to install, configure, manage, a

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 EnhancementsNutanix Files has long been integrated into the core Nutanix AOS software. File server deployments, share creation, upgrades, node expansions, and other core services are delivered using the same interface. This integration has been key to keeping Nutanix Files simple and intuitive so that any administrator, whether they are an expert in Network Attached Storage (NAS) or not, can easily manage Files and their entire Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) environment.While being tightly coupled to AOS is beneficial, differing product release cycles, along with delivering a file server centric interface, has driven a project to partially decouple Nutanix Fil

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 Files 4.0, we’ve added a native tiering framework, called “Smart Tier”, to help address these requirements. Smart Tier enables you to move cold or rarely used data to lower cost storage while maintaining a single namespace. Data can be tiered to any qualified S3 API compliant target, including on-premises solutions or in the public cloud.Smart Tier enables hybrid multicloud environments for unstructured data, whether it’s for long term archiving, cost saving or providing a virtually limitless

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 Nutanix and Azure—hybrid made easy AOS 6 Advances Performance and Resilience for Business-Critical ApplicationsIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

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 drivers that are cruci

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 Technology ChampionIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or Google

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.Nutanix VPN Appliance On-premises to Nutanix VPN Appliance on Nutanix DRaaSWhen using the Nutanix managed VPN appliance on both sides of the connection, the deployment process automatically creates an ipsec tunnel with EBGP as the routing protocol running on top of it. These routes between both sides are a

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 Nutanix Leap, you can back up critical data, protect applications, and survive disasters without any specialized skill or investment. Want to learn how? Take advantage of these great resources so that you’re using Leap to its fullest potential! Take our Training Courses Getting Started | LeapIn this free online course, we will give you an introduction into the foundations of Leap that will give you the jump start you need to succeed!Business Continuity and Disaster Recov

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 minute and can go as high as $540,000 per hour for mission-critical applications.One of our core principles at Nutanix is to ensure the continuous availability of data for all applications running on the platform. To achieve seamless business continuity, we have built High Av

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 CoursesGetting Started | KarbonIn this free online course, we will give you an introduction into the foundations of Karbon that will give you the jump start you need to succeed! Watch demos on our Youtube ChannelNutanix Karbon: Kubernetes ServiceHere you can find a playlist of all our demos on Karbon to see it live in action.Our Top Recommendations: Tech Topx: Kubernetes Persistent Storage with Nutanix Karbon Tech Topx: Kubernetes Cluster Scaling with Nutanix Karbon To stay up to date