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This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Sr. Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services Nutanix. A Discussion with Igor Zecevic, Consulting Architect at Nutanix 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 Igor Zecevic to talk about his experience earning his expert-level certification and to get his advice for other professionals looking to earn their NCX.   Q. Can you tell us a little bit about your IT background? I have been working in the IT industry for about 10 years now with experience working on the customer side before coming to Nuta

Have you been thinking about adding a Nutanix certification to your list of accomplishments? We’ve asked current certification holders and pulled together industry research to give you 6 great reasons why you should get Nutanix certified. Join the Nutanix certification community today! Are you in the process of getting certified? Comment below and let us know which certifications you’re preparing for.  Click here to view the infographic! 

While Nutanix has grown and matured, so has its customer base.  With much broader adoption comes a wide variety of legacy applications from complex infrastructures that benefit by migrating to the Nutanix AHV hypervisor.  Sureline Systems tackles the challenges of migration from these complex environments.What Makes Migration from Complex Environments Challenging?Complexity comes from a variety of factors that need to be handled correctly to avoid any negative impact on the migrated applications or cause needless delays.  A migration solution needs to migrate servers that are running on physical servers, hypervisors including VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack, and other major cloud infrastructures. It must also support migration of both Microsoft Windows and Linux servers.But complexity is not just in the platform, it is also in the nuances of the version of the operating system that the application is running on, and how the data is stored on persistent disk on drives, volumes, and file

Enterprise IT organizations across industries are facing explosive data growth and are struggling to manage data within tight budgets. Nutanix and Komprise help enable companies to do more with less—Nutanix simplifies IT infrastructure and delivers cloud-like economics, and Komprise makes it easy to identify, migrate, and manage the right data on Nutanix. The result is greater efficiency, simpler management, and lower costs.Key use cases with Komprise and Nutanix covered in this post include:Analytics and Planning: In most enterprises, over 80% of data is cold and not accessed in over a year, yet it continues to consume expensive storage and backup resources. Komprise analyzes across your NAS and cloud data to identify the right data to move to Nutanix and the savings you can expect. File Data Migrations to Nutanix: Migrate file data up to 27 times faster with reliable MD5 checksums on every file. Manage hundreds of migrations with a single console. Transparent Data Archiving/Tiering f

We are excited to introduce our latest update to Nutanix Test Drive - AI Ops and Automation! This Test Drive allows you to quickly try out capacity planning, playbooks, application automation, and more!Nutanix Test Drive is a way for you to easily experience the Nutanix platform on your time through your web browser. From this landing page, you can explore different use cases without having to install any software or configure any hardware.AI Ops and AutomationStart exploring AI Ops and Automation on Nutanix by navigating to the AI Ops & Automation tab on the Nutanix Test Drive landing page.Once you are logged in, you will be presented with the Automate Operations menu.If you don’t see this menu for any reason, you can navigate to it from the main menu by clicking on Automate Operations -> IT Automation.Note: At any point during the guided tour, you can exit the tour by clicking the X in the top-right corner of the current window. You can return to the guided tour by clicking on

This post was authored by Bellisa Bui, Customer Marketing Intern for Nutanix University! Nutanix AOS Training Want to know more about Nutanix AOS Distributed Storage? 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 AOS. With our newest launch of AOS 5.19, there are new capabilities for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) customers and now is the time to take advantage of these great resources so that you’re using AOS to its fullest potential! Take our Training Courses! Getting Started with AOSIn this free online course, we will give you an introduction into the foundations of hyperconverged infrastructure that will give you the jump start you need to succeed! Envisioning the Hybrid CloudIn this free online course, we will walk you through the story of computing itself, beginning with the mainframe and culminating in the hyperconvergence and cloud technologies of the present day

This week on the podcast Dwayne chats with Jarian Gibson . They discuss Nutanix Files with EUC, and Nutanix Files deployments. It’s a great technical talk where they really get into the details. Follow us on TwitterJarian Gibson  Dwayne Lessner  Angelo Luciani  Nutanix CommunityResourcesSimple, Flexible, Intelligent File Storage Nutanix Files Delivers End-User Computing Without Compromise Bursting 2,000 Citrix Desktops to AWS in Under 2 Hours with Nutanix Clusters Citrix Cloud on the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Platform Delivers Choice, Simplicity and PerformanceIf you enjoy The Nutanix Community podcast, consider providing a rating and review in iTunes or your podcasting platform of choice. It helps people find the show easier and will help me make improvements in the series by seeing what you have to say.Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Spotify or GoogleBe sure to register for our annual .NEXT user conference happening September 20-23, 2021 online. It’s Cloud on your terms.

Being deeply customer focused means developing a deep understanding of your customers needs and challenges and then developing solutions that help. Nutanix has been focused on the customer since inception, it’s one of our core principles. And that goes for our storage products. That is why we are so pleased to have been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.Gartner Peer Insights is a free peer review and rating platform designed for enterprise software and service decision makers. Nutanix Files and Nutanix Objects solutions were first included on the Gartner Peer Insights list as a discrete product in the summer of 2020 and within a very short time, received over 56 peer reviews with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5*, one of the highest in the distributed file systems and object storage space.As a result of our rapid and highly favorable customer feedback, we are one of only five companies to place in the top right quad

The year of 2020 it was filled with unexpected surprises, but we won’t surprise you any further! Instead, we are here to share with you a How-To Guide of the Top 10 Nutanix Frame Demos of 2020. We’ve wrapped it all up for you in a video and down below, so check it out! Look Back on the Top 10 Nutanix Frame Demos of 2020   Set Up 8 Frame Accounts in 4-Minutes (01:08) See multi-cloud deployment in action! Learn how fast and easy it is to deploy eight frame accounts in six different continents using Nutanix AHV, Azure, Amazon, and Google Infrastructure to support a global workforce. Leverage on-premise and public cloud resources for workload VM’s.  Frame Guest Agent (FGA) Auto-Update (04:41) This is a short, quick and easy demo to see the Frame Guest Agent auto-update update feature.   Learning About Frame Enterprise Profiles and Personal Disk (05:04) Configuration is easy as flip to switch! Using profile disk technology, each user profile is stored in a profile disk. No file shares requi

March 23rd marks the release of our latest education track which gives you yet another option when designing your personal education journey with Nutanix University.Introducing the End User Computing education track!Our new Nutanix End User Computing Administration (NEUCA) training course and accompanying Nutanix Certified Professional – End User Computing (NCP-EUC) certification make up the first part of the End User Computing track. Nutanix End User Computing Administration (NEUCA) Training Course Take the Nutanix End User Computing Administration course and learn the skills needed to design, install, configure, and manage a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) solution on Nutanix. In addition, you’ll get an introduction to Nutanix Frame, covering the major tasks involved in configuring and managing a Frame environment, ranging from connecting infrastructure and identity systems to delivering applications and desktops to end users.Nutanix Certified Professional – End User Computing (

The Nutanix Move tool (formerly known as Xtract) is a cross-hypervisor mobility solution initially introduced to help customers migrate VMs onto the Nutanix platform with minimal downtime. Since the underlying infrastructures differ, a small amount of downtime is incurred during cutover from the source platform to the target.Since its introduction, Nutanix has enhanced the Move™ tool to support a variety of lift and shift migrations, including migrations to and from AWS® EC2 instances. The latest release of Nutanix Move 3.7, launched in January 2021, makes AWS migrations much simpler, with a smoother UI workflow, improved security, more reliable migration process, and increased performance. Nutanix Move BackgroundStarting with the Move 1.0 release, we had a framework that provided the foundation for workload migrations among Nutanix AHV and other hypervisors and cloud platforms.In 2018, the Move Engineering team added support for Amazon EC2 migrations. Nutanix Move leverages published

This post was written by Bellisa Bui, Customer Marketing Intern for Nutanix University AOS 5.19 is here! And with new features, means new possibilities. In AOS 5.19, we’ve added: Ability to migrate virtual disks for a VM from one storage container to another Live migrate the entire virtual machine that includes: All of its Vdisks  Specify individual Vdisks for a single VM  To make it easier for you, we’ve created a demo video that walks you through these new features for AOS 5.19. You can follow along to learn more about what AOS 5.19 has to offer! This demo will specifically show you a SQL 01 VM with two virtual disks that have been migrated to the DB storage, while the second disk is being moved from the SQL VM to another storage container.  Watch the video here: What's new for AOS 5.19 and then tell us below what your favorite new feature is.------------------------------------------------------Be sure to subscribe to our Nutanix University YouTube channel to stay updated

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Sr. Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix. A few weeks ago, we announced a new professional level certification, the Nutanix Certification Professional – Data Services (NCP-DS). The beta version of this certification exam has closed, and we would like to give a special thank you to everyone who participated in the beta!Starting today, you can now register for the live version of the exam with the first available date being March 30th. NCP-DS certification holders have proven their ability to deploy, configure, optimize, troubleshoot, and perform administrative tasks on the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud storage and data services Files, Objects, and Volumes technologies.So, if this aligns with your personal career path, you can go ahead register for your exam date now. While you’re waiting, we suggest using this time to prepare:1. Review the knowledge objectives in the exam blueprint guide2. Take our Nutanix Data Services Admini

Nutanix Files is a software defined, flexible, file storage service.  Since its early access release in 2016, Files has been focused on simplifying and consolidating network attached storage (NAS) for the enterprise and supporting use cases from end user computing through video surveillance and medical imaging.In parallel, Nutanix engineering has been executing on act two, evolving Files into an intelligent data management platform for the hybrid cloud.  One of the first steps in this second act was introducing File Analytics in 2019, a native and integrated software offering to help you audit user activity, detect anomalies, and derive deeper insights into your unstructured data.With the release of Nutanix Files 3.8 and File Analytics 3.0 we progress further into act two, delivering more flexible and efficient remote replication to help enable hybrid cloud disaster recovery.  We also extend File Analytics to include native ransomware intelligence, custom reporting capabilities, and da

The Internet of Things (IoT) landscape is a jungle. The sheer number of IoT platforms, portals, and solutions makes it extremely difficult to choose the right solution to a given problem. When working with IoT, you get used to a lot of trial and error, running tests, and doing proof of concept (POC) installations. Having a stable and flexible platform for running those installations and tests becomes crucial.I have worked in the IoT space for several years with customers of varying organization sizes, ranging from large private enterprises, to public-sector, to small startups. Throughout my experience, I spent a disproportionate amount of time designing and setting up infrastructure for running my tests or POCs.In this blog, I demonstrate how the Nutanix® Karbon™ Platform Services (KPS) platform-as-a-service offering  simplifies deploying infrastructure, running quick POCs, and providing stable production environments for IoT use cases. KPS accelerates innovation by freeing you to focu

We at Dbvisit are excited to announce that Dbvisit Standby is now officially Nutanix Ready Certified for Nutanix AHV. Dbvisit’s certified solution provides Nutanix customers running Oracle Standard Edition databases on the Nutanix hyperconverged Infrastructure, a cost-effective and enterprise class disaster recovery offering, to ensure resilient database environments and enabling business continuity.Companies who run Oracle Standard Edition databases on Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure, will appreciate the simplicity and automation capabilities of Dbvisit Standby, when it comes to building and managing a standby Oracle database environment. Dbvisit Standby reduces the risks associated with hand-built solutions and manual processing. In addition, Dbvisit Standby allows customers to improve their database licensing efficiencies and maximize the investment in their standby infrastructure.Dbvisit Standby is built on top of the tried and proven Oracle redo/archive logging mechanism a

Now that remote work holds center stage, seamless and distributed enterprise IT operations (ITOps) has never been more important. Nutanix launched Foundation Central in May 2020 as part of its ongoing goal to make infrastructure invisible.Foundation Central extends the deployment services already available from Foundation and makes zero-touch centralized deployments scalable and easy. Once equipment has been racked and cabled, organizations do not require any IT specialists at the datacenter or remote IT site to install or rebuild any of the IT infrastructure software.Nutanix recently launched further enhancements to Foundation Central with version 1.1.We have made several UI improvements to provide increased information about the nodes, including ones being discovered. The image below shows nodes being discovered and the ones that are available for cluster deployment.The following image below shows how nodes can be grouped by categories such as serial number and host type.A customizab

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Sr. Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix. Tell us what you think! The Nutanix University team works hard to deliver unique, innovative education programs that help propel your career to new heights. And we love to hear how Nutanix training and certification programs have benefited your career. Please complete our short survey and help us make Nutanix University even better! It takes less than 10 minutes to complete!We’ll use your feedback to make sure you receive the best possible experience every time you engage with Nutanix University. Click here to take our survey!  2020 Nutanix, Inc.  All rights reserved. Nutanix, the Nutanix logo and all Nutanix product, feature and service names mentioned herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nutanix, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective hold

Nutanix Xi Leap—the cloud-based disaster recovery service—has received SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2, and SOC 3 attestations based on a comprehensive examination conducted in accordance with the standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The review evaluated Nutanix’s implementation and adherence to an extensive list of controls covering a wide range of processes based on the trust services criteria for security, availability, and confidentiality. The review concluded that Nutanix’s service commitments were successfully achieved. This achievement assures customers of Nutanix’s commitment to security and compliance.The SOC 2 Type 1 report confirms that the Xi Leap security controls are effectively designed, and the SOC 2 Type 2 report confirms that those security controls are effectively implemented and operating for a period of performance. SOC 2 Type 1 and SOC 2 Type 2 reports may be requested at:  https://www.nutanix.com/trust where the SOC

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix. It’s that time of year again! We released our latest Certification Chronicles infographic, and we are thrilled to announce that the Nutanix certification community has grown by 16% over the past year! We now have NCPs in 104 countries including Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan and Kuwait.We would love to hear from you. Let us know which country you represent in the comments!  Do you want to join the NCP community? Start the year off right by earning your NCP for just $50!  Get the discount code and learn more here. © 2021 Nutanix, Inc.  All rights reserved. Nutanix, the Nutanix logo and all Nutanix product, feature and service names mentioned herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nutanix, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s). This post may contai

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix. Earlier this year, we partnered with Udacity to create the Hybrid Cloud Engineer Nanodegree Program. As part of the initiative, we announced 500 scholarships to the newly built Hybrid Cloud Engineer Nanodegree program. Today, we’re excited to inform you that this Nanodegree program is now ready for the scholarship winners and also open for enrollment.Speaking about the partnership, Inder Sidhu, EVP, Global Customer Success, said, “At Nutanix we strive to provide ongoing educational opportunities for our customers and prospects, so they are constantly learning. Our partnership with Udacity has received incredibly positive feedback from students. We now enter the next phase of our partnership by awarding 500 free scholarships to the full Hybrid Cloud Engineer Nanodegree program.”  What will You Learn with the Hybrid Cloud Engineer Nanodegree Program The Hybrid Cloud Engineer Nanodegree P

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix. Stop overpaying for certifications! Here at Nutanix University, we’re making it easier than ever to take the next step in your Nutanix journey by offering a discount on all our certification exams.That’s right for the next 3 months, we’re offering 75% off ALL of our Nutanix Certification exams! That includes:NCA NCP-MCI NCP-DS NCM-MCI NCSX NCSE: Core NCSE: EDU NCSCore NCSCoreM NCSR But before you head off to take the exam, we recommend spending a little time with the exam blueprint guide and the related training courses in Nutanix University to make sure that you are as prepared for success as you can be. Once you’re ready to take the exam, just use the discount code P75NTXQ321 when you register. Don’t wait too long! This offer is only available until July 31, 2021. Start Saving Now! Terms and ConditionsEligible exams include all Nutanix certification exams.  You must register by July

This post was written by Jill Liles, Sr Marketing Manager for Nutanix UniversityNutanix University is excited to announce that the Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) 5.15 exam is now open for registration. And, that the NCP certification has a new name:Introducing Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure!                                        This is still the same NCP certification you know and love! But we hope you’ll agree this new name better reflects the Nutanix technology it covers, as well as the skills and knowledge you’ve demonstrated by earning it. The 5.15 Exam VersionYou can find the 5.15 version exam blueprint guide here and it will explain all of the objectives covered on this latest version. And when you’re ready to register, just visit Nutanix University (but make sure you grab the half price discount code from here first!).If you took the Beta version of the exam earlier this spring, THANK YOU for your support of the certification development proce

This post was authored by Jill Liles, Sr Marketing Manager at Nutanix.   Companies have been investing in VDI technology for years for a variety of reasons: secure access for remote workforces, simplified app and desktop management, and increased productivity. But the last few weeks have seen interest in this technology skyrocket as everyone adjusts to wide-scale work from home recommendations.   We’ve been in the fortunate position of being able to help our customers scale their existing VDI environments, or try them out  for the first time while we all adjust to the new normal caused by COVID-19.   But along with getting the technology into the right hands, we want to make sure you understand how to make the most of it. And we’ve collected these resources to help get you started.     End-User Computing                                                          eLearning Part of the Enterprise Cloud Solutions course from Nutanix University, this elearning explores Xi Frame and