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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 -

This post was authored by Lakshana Rajendran and Laura Jordana, Technical Marketing Engineers A little over a month ago, we launched Nutanix Test Drive 2.1 (TD 2.1) to showcase easy-to-use, no-install Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) enabled by Nutanix Xi Leap. Xi Leap is natively integrated with AOS and Prism and utilizes the Nutanix Cloud, a subscription-based public cloud services platform, and features guaranteed SLAs. Read this blog post to see what you can do with the initial Test Drive coverage of Xi Leap. Today, we are pleased to inform you that these capabilities are enhanced with a new and improved Xi Leap deep dive (TD 2.1.6). A deep-dive lab allows you to explore selected topics further with an easy-to-foll

This post was authored by Mark Andreopoulos, Nutanix System Architect When discussing Nutanix as an HCI solution, I often find myself steering conversations with my customers toward the power of the platform. Make no mistake about it, Nutanix provides a comprehensive platform (a full stack) for not only deploying and managing HCI, but also automating both application deployments, and mundane, manual operational tasks. The benefits of automation to an IT organization are undeniable, however to fully maximize the ROI, one might say that you are only as good as your lowest common denominator. If you are only able to automate one small step in a very large workflow, then how can you ensure the benefits are realized by the consumer and customers of said platform? This is where the power of the Nutanix platform really comes into play. Nutanix Calm provides an elegant way to model and deploy complex, multi-tier applications for various types of consumers. Couple thi

This post was authored by Sydney Araya and Saad Azam, Customer Marketing Specialists at Nutanix. How Do You Learn Best? Years of research has shown that people learn differently. Some people learn best by reading about a topic, others from watching videos, and some need to get hands-on and learn as they go. And this holds true whether you're baking a cake or learning a new technology.Let’s look at online recipes for example: You may be the kind of person who can follow the exact recipe and create a beautiful masterpiece or you may create a beautiful disaster even if you followed the recipe perfectly!At Nuta

This post was authored by Rebeca Kinslow, Content Marketing Team Recent analytics found that before COVID-19, 75 million U.S. employees (about 56% of the non-self-employed workforce) had jobs that are compatible with working from home. Amidst a global pandemic, there’s no doubt that 2020 will be marked by a great shift to working remotely. IT teams are feeling the pressure of being responsible for onboarding significant numbers of employees to remote workplaces and faster than ever before. Getting workers onboarded with virtual desktops and apps (VDI) is new to many, and it’s okay if you don’t have it all figured out yet. We asked our customers what their best tips were for working remotely using VDI. Check ‘em out: 1. Plan first, act second When something needs to get

Inbox filled with wishes that you’ll stay “safe and well during these unprecedented times”? Give yourself a mental break and let yourself daydream about the first thing you’ll do once emails go back to just hoping they “find you well.” That’s what we asked our customers to do, and their answers made us smile. Take a look at our customers most frequent responses and share with us below in the comments how you answer the question: If you are a Nutanix customer be sure to register for an account with XTribe. Also check out the latest Nutanix Community Podcast where Christie Vaughan (Program lead for XT

Welcome to the Nutanix community podcast with Christie Vaughan and Angelo Luciani. This week on the podcast Christie and I chat with two very active members of the Nutanix XTribe customer program Bradley Burgess and Fasial Jawaid.. They are also Nutanix Technology Champions. We chat about the XTribe program, how you can get involved, types of activities to participate in and how to have the most fun with your peers and the community.   Follow us on Twitter Christie Vaughan Angelo Luciani Nutanix Nation Resources

This post was written by Derek Seaman, Customer Success Enterprise Architect, Nutanix Early on in Nutanix’s history we focused on being the best and simplest HCI solution on the market. Market share, customer response and industry analyst feedback prove that we succeeded in that vision. However, Nutanix kept innovating and our vision has evolved into private cloud, hybrid cloud, and a multi-cloud strategy. As the Nutanix product portfolio has expanded our customers and the field have asked for a concise reference architecture clearly showing how all the pieces fit together, guided by best practices. The result of this effort is the Nutanix Private Cloud Reference Architecture. Reference Architecture Contents One of the key sections in the reference architecture is the Design Objectives. All of the subsequent design decisions in the document are based on these Design Objectives. Some Design Objectives for each customer may be differe

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix.   Whether you’re looking to advance your career, build your expertise, or deliver a superior experience to your end-customers, Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) certification offers benefits you won’t find anywhere else.   Although NPX certification requires a serious commitment in time and s

This post was authored by Jill Liles, Sr Marketing Manager at Nutanix.   Nutanix has always worked hard to deliver unique, innovative customer training programs that pushed the boundaries of IT training and were miles away from boring “death by PowerPoint” training classes.   We’re excited to tell you about the next step in that journey and introduce you to the new home of Nutanix University.  

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix.   Certification exams can be stressful, so we’ve collected several resources that can help you approach your certification exam full of confidence! As you’re studying keep the rubber duck explanation theory in mind - Can you explain it clearly to a rubber duck? For more information on the rubber duck explanation theory click here.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Start with Exam Blueprint Guide   “People who are looking for certifications, no matt

This week on the podcast I chat with Sachin Chheda about being ‘Cloud Smart’ what is means, the concept of applications attributes, the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index and lifecycle management. There is lot in this podcast, so with that let’s join the conversation.   Follow us on Twitter Sachin Chheda - twitter.com/StorSC Dwayne Lessner - twitter.com/dlink7 Angelo Luciani - twitter.com/AngeloLuc

This post was authored by Rebeca Kinslow, from our content marketing team Wondering what people are doing to stay engaged during quarantine? Here’s a hint: One British book retailer reported a 400% rise in online sales week on week at the end of March... and they aren’t the only ones seeing these massive book sale upticks. Reading has become a staple during social distancing restrictions. If you’re looking to join the trend, or just need a new book to add to your list, we’ve got just the thing for you. We asked our customers for their best IT-related book recommendations, and they were so good, we had to share!

We’re happy to announce that the 2020 Enterprise Cloud Solution Design Boot Camp and NPX Design Review schedule is available now!     Currently, we have six Enterprise Cloud Solution Design Boot Camps and two Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) Design Review Sessions scheduled around the globe for 2020.     Enterprise Cloud Solution Design Boot Camps   Prepare yourself to engage with enterprise customers and design Nutanix Enterprise Cloud solutions that deliver real business value, with one of these free, 4-day design boot camps. These boot camps are led by an onsite team of dedicated NPX-certified instructors who will focus on designing multi-hypervisor solu

This post was authored by Sydney Araya, Customer Marketing Specialist, Education Services at Nutanix.   Do you have a workforce that now needs to work from home?   If you do then you may need to scale up your environment, add more desktops, or simply deploy a DaaS solution, or you may be looking to scale up if you’re already running Nutanix. If you’re new to Nutanix, we will walk you through how to get started, right from unpacking the box and racking a block, all the way up to Prism

In the first post in this series I compared the actual Usable Capacity between Nutanix ADSF vs VMware vSAN on the same hardware. We saw approximately 30-40% more usable capacity delivered by Nutanix. Next we compared Deduplication & Compression technologies where we learned Nutanix has outright capacity efficiency, flexibility, resiliency and performance advantages over vSAN. Then we looked at Erasure Coding where we learned the Nutanix implementation (called EC-X) is both dynamic & fl

This week on the podcast Dwayne chats with Mike McGhee Technical Marketing Engineer about our upcoming release of AOS 5.17 and some of the new features - like Sync support for AHV, NearSync for Support for Metro (ESXi), network segmentation for replication and much more. There is lots to get excited about in this release, enjoy this episode! I hope you and your family are safe. Lets do what we can to help those in our local communities.   Follow us on Twitter Mike McGheeDwayne LessnerAngelo Luciani

This post was authored by Devon Helms, Director of Product Marketing - Storage Services Simplicity is included with Nutanix Files out of the box. Sometimes that means making management and administrative tasks easier so that application and use case owners can self-manage file storage. Other times it means extending control to end users and empower self-service. In a world where more people are working remotely, self-service becomes even more important as the remote user may not have ready access to office resources. A great example of this is the self-service restore feature of Nutanix Files. Nobody is perfect, we all make mistakes. When it comes to a mistake such as damaging or deleting files accidentally, the ability to rapidly recover a known good copy of the file can prevent a minor annoyance from becoming a major problem. Typically recovering a file would require the involvement of trouble tickets, storage or backup administrators, and hours or days of wait time.

This post was authored by Dwayne Lessner, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer AOS 5.17 in my mind should be officially named the “Disaster Recovery” release. This release provides many great updates for customers using Nutanix Leap: DR orchestration to keep their business running. This release gives more flexibility to protection topologies, reduces system overhead, gives users more choice and reduces recovery point objective times. Single Prism Central Support In past releases in order to perform DR orchestration between two different sites you would have to have Prism Central (PC) at each location forming an availability zone. An availability zone in Nutanix is what one PC manages as a fault domain. This makes good sense in large environments if you were to failover, you would still need a management plane to initiate the action. For smaller sites that want to utilize leap for deploying a PC VM

Check out what’s new from Nutanix University!   We’ve updated our core training courses and certification exams to align with AOS 5.15, including: Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA) training Advanced Administration & Performance (AAPM) training Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) v5.15 beta exam Read below for highlights of each new release or visit the

This post was authored by Laura Jordana Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix We are excited to introduce Nutanix Test Drive 2.1, which now allows you to test drive Xi Leap, our easy to use, no-install, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution. Nutanix Test Drive is a way for you to try out the Nutanix platform easily, through your web browser. Recently, we announced our new and improved Test Drive 2.0 running on Google Cloud Platform, which showcases 3 areas of the Nutanix portfolio - managing your virtual infrastructure with Prism and AOS, monitoring and planning with Prism Pro, and easily deploying and publishing applications with Calm. For more details, click

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