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What a memorable .NEXT, our first digital conference, with interesting guests, exciting speakers, deep technical content and a celebration of the Nutanix community!With so many announcements, and for those that could not make it, I thought I would summarize the announcements here.Thank you for being part of this exciting event and for sharing your expertise each week in our community forums.Session content can be found .NEXT Conference 2020If you missed the keynotes, don’t worry I have you covered, I’ve included to opening keynotes at the end of this post - enjoy!.NEXT 2020 Announcement SummaryHybrid Cloud Solutions with Nutanix and Microsoft Azure

We’re happy to announce that Nutanix Test Drive now includes Flow, an application security solution from Nutanix. With just a few clicks, you can start using Nutanix Flow to isolate virtual environments, secure your applications, and thwart malware attacks. Flow microsegmentation provides policy-based security from Prism Central for workloads on AHV, the native Nutanix hypervisor

This post was authored by Mayur Shah & Bala Kuchibhotla, NutanixData volumes are growing exponentially year-over-year. Experts believe that 90% of the world’s data was created in just the last two years. It’s clear that the way we generate and consume data has changed, and—given the fast pace of modern business—traditional approaches to database management are failing to meet growing enterprise demands. Your IT operations may already be facing significant database-related challenges including:Growing complexity. Teams spend too much time managing and troubleshooting legacy databases, leaving little time for optimization, innovation, or growing your business. Poor performance and scaling. Existing database deployment models suffer from slow provisioning and poor scalability—and require constant tuning to achieve adequate performance. Inadequate data security. Databases are the workhorses of ma

This post was authored by Derek Seaman & Venu Vuppalapati, NutanixNutanix is proud to announce a new Xpert professional services portfolio to meet the needs of enterprises of all sizes in their database modernization and automation journey. The series of database modernization services will bring your Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases into a virtual environment and manage the full lifecycle of databases using the one-click simplicity of Nutanix Era.The professional service offerings help IT organizations plan, design, and implement their next database environment, including helping them set up storage and virtual machine

Deploy simple, flexible, and intelligent storage and shares in minutes with Nutanix Files. Eliminate the need to create a NAS silo. Test Drive today!Nutanix Test Drive continues to add new use cases and capabilities. Check out our blogs to learn about all of the use cases that have been covered by Test Drive so far. We are excited to introduce Nutanix Test Drive for Data Consolidation (TD 2.2), which lets you try out Nutanix Files, our simple, flexible, and i

We're excited to introduce Nutanix Test Drive for Era, the database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution that brings one-click simplicity to database administration. Let’s take a full test drive!Deep-dive into Database as a ServiceWe’ll get started by navigating to our Era

This blog will guide you through the “Interact with Shares” section of the Nutanix Files Test Drive. Nutanix Files is a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution that provides a repository for unstructured data, such as home directories, user profiles, departmental shares, application logs, backups, and archives. If you’re finding this post through the Nutanix .Next community and haven’t tried Test Drive for Files yet, we highly recommend that you check it out.The Interact with Shares walk-thru will provide you connection details to a Window

This post was authored by Wes Kennedy, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at NutanixNutanix Test Drive continues to add new use cases and capabilities. Check out our blogs to learn about all of the use cases that have been covered by Test Drive so far. We are excited to expand Nutanix Test Drive for Data Consolidation (TD 2.3) to include Nutanix Objects, our powerful and efficient S3-compliant object store platform

Building and managing a hybrid cloud is easier said than done. We are excited to be adding Nutanix Clusters to the Nutanix Test Drive family. Nutanix Clusters bridges the gap between public and private clouds by providing a single platform that gives you the freedom to choose your operating model without cloud lock-in. Take a quick peek

With thousands of customer deployments, Nutanix Files has quickly become integral for enabling enterprise class scale-out file server use cases.  Key use cases include Windows and Linux file shares, application data repositories, file archives, medical imaging and video surveillance stores, to name a few.  Working closely with our partners, Nutanix Files has recently been validated with key industry leaders in the areas of Healthcare and Smart Video including:

This post was authored by our friends at Edgenexus We are delighted to announce our partnership with Nutanix and the certification of our Edgenexus Load balancer/ADC on the Nutanix AHV platform. Nutanix is revolutionizing application deployments with their hyperconverged infrastructure, and Edgenexus is simplifying the traditionally complex load-balancing arena – together, their benefits are amplified. Load balancing is a critical piece of the modern application infrastructure. Together with the right deployment environment it can allow applications to easily scale, while at the same time providing additional security and resilience. Greg Howett, CEO of Edgenexus said, “We have provided software-based load balancing for many years and are delighted that this partnership and certification, as an integrated and tested solution, can deliver additional benefits to our joint customers.” “We believe that Edgenexus makes perfect sense for load balanc

This week on the podcast I speak with NPX 8 René van den Bedem and we talk about education and certification. In this four-part series, We discuss certifications in general, tactics, career growth and what to do on the day of the exam. Now is a great time to restart your certification journey. Quick plug here checkout Nutanix.com/certifications for special deals and offers. Let me know on twitter if we helped inspired you to get certified this year!   Follow us on Twitter René van den Bedem A

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix.   Join us for the Global .NEXT Digital Experience, happening September 8th – September 10th, 2020! .NEXT is your one-stop source for information, education, and inspiratio

This post was authored by Sean Roth, Director of Product Marketing - Karbon | Cloud Native Solutions Hot on the heels of the recent Karbon 2.0 release, which delivered single-click Kubernetes upgrades, support for air-gapped environments, and integration with Prism Pro for a single-pane-of-glass user experience, Nutanix is excited to announce the availability of Karbon 2.1! In this latest release, we’ve focused on tackling two of Kubernetes’ most difficult challenges: networking and storage. Calico Integration Networking Kubernetes pods and making them accessible to other services or external networks can be a complicated undertaking, often requiring the use of overlay networks and NATs. At scale, this becomes extremely compl

This post was authored by Matt Slotten Senior Manager, Technical Marketing EngineeringWe are excited to release Nutanix Test Drive 2.5, which now includes the ability to experience the one-click simplicity, fast time to value, and integration between Nutanix and HYCU with Nutanix Mine, a dedicated data protection solution.Nutanix Test Drive lets you try out the Nutanix platform easily and quickly, through your web browser. Earlier this year, we announced our new and improved

This post was authored by Amin Aflatoonian, Enterprise Architect Nutanix Juniper Contrail is a software defined networking (SDN) controller deployed widely in the Telco cloud industry for a variety of use cases. Recently, Nutanix and Juniper announced that Contrail is validated for deployment on AHV, the native Nutanix hypervisor. In this post, I’ll present these two technologies architecturally and describe how they can be integrated. Architecture In this section I present briefly the architecture of both Contrail and AHV products to show how these two products can be coupled to provide added value services. To learn more about these products, please visit the

This post was authored by Michael Haigh, Lakshana Rajendran and Laura Jordana Nutanix Calm Test Drive gives you hands-on experience with multicloud application automation. We are excited to introduce a self-paced deep dive for application automation and lifecycle management using Nutanix Calm (Nutanix Test Drive 2.1.5). Calm is an application lifecycle manager for private and public clouds built on our easy to use,

This post was authored by our friends at Edgenexus Load balancers and Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) have always been dogged by unnecessary complexity. This hidden barrier typically means only a fraction of possible features make it into an organization’s production environment. Edgenexus believes that this risks a massive waste of potential value. To remedy this, their goal is to always offer exceptional usability. The great news is that Edgenexus ADC and WAF are now available and certified on the Nutanix AHV platform. With the right deployment environment, Edgenexus can help enable applications to easily scale, while at the same time providing additional security and resilience offering advanced facilities such as GSLB (Global Server Load Balancer) and WAF (Web Application Firewall) in and easy-to-use package. Nutanix revolutionizes application deployments with their hyperconverged infrastructure, and Edgenexus simplifies the tradit

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix.   A few months ago, we introduced our new series of free, online training courses covering the core Nutanix Cloud Solutions, the Enterprise Cloud Solutions. Today we are excited to release the newest addition, the Nutanix Private Cloud course!   Each of the Enterprise Cloud Solutions courses is made up of two parts. First, you'll dig into product training that introduces elements of the Nutanix product portfolio. Then, you’ll explore how the solution ties them all together.

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix.   We’ve spoken to dozens of IT professionals over the years, and they all agree that it’s while they are preparing for a certification exam that they learn the most. And studying the Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) program is a great way to build advanced skills that make great IT architects, managers, and CIOs.   The NPX program teaches you a new way to think about IT projects, beyond just the technical capabilities. You’ll learn how business requirements impact technical decisions, how legacy systems shape future projects, and how to commu

This article was written by John Williamson, Nutanix Here’s the thing about traditional disaster recovery solutions. Not only are they expensive and time consuming to set up and maintain, testing them is usually such a hassle that organizations often do the bare minimum required for compliance purposes--if even that. This means that organizations are simply operating on faith that their solution will come through during whatever disaster befalls them. This false sense of security from an untested solution is in some respects worse than having no solution at all. Along comes Nutanix Xi Leap, an easy to use, no-install, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution

This post was authored by Saad Azam Education & Community Marketing Specialist at Nutanix.   Start 2020 by taking your career to the next level, with an updated slate of training and certification programs from Nutanix University.   We’ve completely updated our core training courses and certification exams to align with AOS 5.10, including: Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA) training Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) v5.10 exam Advanced Topics for the Enterprise Cloud training Nutanix Certified Advanced Professional (NCAP) v5.10 beta exam Read below for highlights of each new release or visit the new Nutanix University portal (accessed via my.nutanix.com) and get started today.  

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix.   Have you been thinking of getting your Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) certification but don’t know where to start? Look no further! Take advantage of these great resources outlined by NPXs themselves:   ·  Start with the

This post was authored by Sydney Araya Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix.   Check out What’s New in AOS 5.17, a new course from Nutanix University! AOS 5.17 is an update that makes its presence felt in several major products in the Nutanix portfolio. Use this course to discover all the new features and get up to speed fast with everything AOS 5.17.    NEW features discussed in this course are: Support for NVMe boot and data drives, Hyper-V 2019, and rack fault tolerance support for

This week on the podcast I chat with Madhukar Kumar VP of Product Marketing. We talk about Nutanix Test Drive - a way to experience Nutanix software in the cloud with no setup or hardware required. You can take a guided tour or dive deep and use the tutorials.  On the podcast we talk about ‘why’ we created Test Drive, how behaviors have changed when folks are discovering products and what’s available today in Test Drive.   Follow us on Twitter Madhukar Kumar - twitter.com/madhukarkumar Dwayne Lessner - twitter.com/dlink7 Angelo Luciani -