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Nutanix Calm 3.0 is now GA! This release brings in many power-packed features, such as Runbooks (the ability to create custom orchestrated workflows), Nutanix Xi cloud support, Microsoft Azure integrations, and more. With Calm 3.0, Nutanix has also released 250+ pre-built tasks that can be imported into the Calm Task Library.The economic benefits of IT automation are well established. With most industries undergoing a digital transformation, organizations are looking to decrease costs, operate more efficiently, and reduce time to market for their solutions. Achieving each of these requires planning, deploying, and managing IT infrastructure across public and private clouds.Nutanix Calm provides a comprehensive platform to model, deploy, and manage complex multi-tier applications across public and private clouds in a centralized management platform. Calm’s blueprint model makes it easier to build and consume infrastructure. One of the most powerful aspects of Calm is the “Marketplace,”

This post was authored by David Teague, Technical Marketing Engineer, NutanixNutanix Test Drive for Era, the Nutanix database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution, has added some exciting new features. In just a few clicks you can now experience how easy it is to deploy multi-region databases with replicas, set up data protection, and apply a patch--all key database management activities.Updates to the deep-dive into Database as a ServiceWhen you register at the Era Test Drive site, you’ll receive an email with a link for direct access to your environment.After logging in, you will be presented with a welcome message and an updated guided tour description for the Database-as-a-Service Deep-Dive modules:Provisioning: Deploy a single instance database.  NEW--Deploy multi-region database with replicas.  NEW--Patching: Create a new Patch Standard and apply the patch to a database server. NEW--Database Protection: Do an in-place database restore of a corrupted database Copy Data Management: Create

This post was authored by Induprakas Keri, Chief Product Security OfficerWe are pleased to announce that Xi Cloud services and Clusters have achieved ISO 27701:2019 Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) certification. ISO 27701 is considered to be the first internationally recognized privacy certification and is the privacy extension of the ISO 27001 security management standard. ISO 27701 builds upon the same 27001 requirements, controls, and objectives associated with the collection and processing of personally identifiable information (PII) and other types of personal data consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).These privacy controls are implemented and maintained through a PIMS. The Nutanix Xi Cloud PIMS, which is comprised of  Xi Leap, Xi Beam, Xi Epoch, Xi Frame, Xi IoT, Xi Insights, Xi File Analytics, and Clusters has received an accredited ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certification as a data processor and data controller. Coalfire issued this certification a

The 2020 Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) applications are open. We are accepting submissions up to November 8, 2019, at midnight PST. We will announce the new group in December 2019.This program recognizes Nutanix enterprise cloud 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 Enterprise Cloud.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 Unique activities at our annual .NEXT conference including pre-show briefings Support

This post was authored by Amit Jain and Sean Roth, NutanixOur new Kubernetes-based PaaS enables you to easily build, deploy, and manage your most innovative applications on any cloudThough every organization’s cloud native journey plays out differently, the end goal remains the same: capitalize on the substantial gains in business agility and scalability that containers, Kubernetes, and the growing ecosystem of cloud technologies yields. Enterprises want to move faster, but the great challenge lies in putting the right frameworks, tools, and technologies in place in order to be able to go fast. Furthermore, all of those solutions (Kubernetes, especially) take a lot of time and effort to master and operate properly.Simplifying Kubernetes lifecycle management to adequately serve developers’ resource needs is just the beginning of what cloud native organizations need to accomplish. Even with a managed solution in place to keep Kubernetes from getting in developers’ way, we know that much

This post was authored by Sarah Hernandez and Mayank Gupta, NutanixWhile capacity planning and anomaly detection were always the most recognized benefits of Prism’s Operations Tier (Pro & Ultimate), the addition of X-Play (cross-play) in AOS 5.11 for “codeless” automation has cemented the role of Prism for AI-driven Intelligent Ops. With X-Play, IT admins can set triggers for system-generated alerts, define the subsequent actions, and save-enable the “routine” for true automation running 24x7.Getting StartedUnlike other automation solutions that can be complex and hard to learn, X-Play is simple by design. Anyone familiar with infrastructure operations alerts and actions should be able to create a playbook within a matter of minutes. X-Play provides a collection of design libraries for out-of-the-box actions for notification, VM management, reporting, and scheduling. It also includes the REST API and script actions that can connect to your existing tools and systems.Following are s

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 AzureA Strategic Partnership to Develop Hybrid and Multicloud Solutions with Seamless App Mobility and Unified Management Across Private Cloud and Azure.Nutanix Announces Partnership with Microsoft Azure for a Seamless Hybrid ExperienceA new partnership with Microsoft that will enable both companies to deliver a hybrid solution with seamless appli

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. Built into the AHV hypervisor virtual switch, Flow is a distributed, stateful firewall that protects VMs at the virtual NIC level. Flow also visualizes the network traffic in your environment, so that you can deploy applications following a zero-trust methodology and seamlessly add or block newly detected traffic.Test Drive Nutanix FlowGet started from our Nutanix Flow Test Drive site. When you log in, you will be greeted with the Test Drive menu inviting you to Protect Your Data and Apps From Network Threats.Flow Test Drive menu over the Prism UIThe guided tour covers four separate topics, giving you the too

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 many business systems, often storing sensitive customer and business data. Lately there has b

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 machines for Nutanix HCI core, and deploy and configure Nutanix Era to enable functions like provisioning, backup and recovery, and copy data management. The services can be consumed in two forms:As individual or a la carte services. This includes design workloads, database migration planning workshops, deployment service, backup and copy data m

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 intelligent file storage for the cloud era. It provides a repository for unstructured data, eliminating the need to create a NAS silo. Nutanix Files leverages the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud architecture and is directly integrated into Prism.Test Drive 2.2 With Nutanix FilesLet’s get started with Nutanix Files. First, fill out a short form on our Test Drive site. You will receive an email with a link to log in. When you log in, you will see a menu of modules to explore. Click on the new Consolidate Your Data tile to find 3 brand-new gu

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 Test Drive site. When you register, you’ll receive an email with a link for direct access to your environment. After logging in, you will be presented with a welcome message and a guided tour description for the Database as a Service deep dive modules:The steps to deploy a database with Era (Deploy Database) How to clone a production database for testing (Clone Production DB) Using the clone refresh feature to update a cloned database (Refresh Clone)Deploy DatabaseFirst, experience how quick and easy it is to deploy a database with our DBaaS. In this example, you will deploy a MariaDB database on a new server using predefined profiles. Era also applies Nutanix’s and the database engines’ best practices. As a result, you can

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 Windows client you can use to access the existing Nutanix Files instance. To get the name of the installed Nutanix Files instance go to the AOSonGCP Prism Element File Server page. To get to Prism Element from Prism Central, click on AOSonGCP in the Cluster Quick Access widget on the Prism Central dashboard, or click on “Go to Prism Element” from the Quick Links menu.Once inside Prism Element, navigate to the File Server menu.Look for the Name in

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. Nutanix Objects allows you to quickly deploy a scalable object store solution for your developers and applications. Nutanix Objects leverages the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud architecture and is directly integrated into Prism Central.Test Drive an S3-Compatible Object Store Solution with Nutanix ObjectsLet’s get started with Nutanix Objects. First, fill out a short form on our Test Drive site. You will receive an email with a link to log in.When you log in, you will see a menu of modules to explore. Click on the new Consolidate Your Data tile to find Files and Objects availabl

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 at this video. You enjoy the same unified management experience regardless of where your workload lives.Give Nutanix Clusters a try and see how easy it is to build and manage a hybrid cloud through Test Drive. It’s available to you for free without any setup or downloads. Test Drive lets you try out the Nutanix platform easily and quickly through your web browser. If you are new to Nutanix Test Drive, read this post to gain a general understanding of what it is. Our new and improved Test Drive 2.0 that we launched earlier this year runs on Google Cloud Platform and showcases Nutanix products and solutions through guided tours.Test Drive Nutanix Clusters

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: Change Healthcare PACS Nutanix Files is validated as a PACS/VNA data storage solution by Change, the world’s largest healthcare software provider, for Change’s Healthcare Enterprise Imaging Portfolio. IBM Watson Health PACS Nutanix Files is validated for short term and long term archive data stores for Merge PACS, Merge Cardio, Merge Hemo and IBM Watson iConnect Enterprise Archive. Milestone Surveillance Nutanix Files is validated with Milestone XProtect to provide an intelligent and powerful solution capable of rec

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 balancing Nutanix based applications: the pa

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 Angelo Luciani Nutanix Nation Nutanix Education Resources Nutanix Online Community Nutanix Community Blog Nutanix Customer XTribe Nutanix User Groups If 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 Google

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 inspiration on the latest IT technologies and trends. This event is the perfect opportunity to enhance your value to current and potential employers by growing your knowledge and skills with education courses, certification opportunities and hands-on labs. Over these 3 days, you can: Brush up on the skills & knowledge you need to succeed on the NCP exam Get the hot new industry certifications managers are looking for Discover more Nutanix solutions to key technology challenges like security, HCI, and EUC ----------------------------------------------- FREE Nutanix Certification Exams Experience .NEXT like never before and leave with a new certification! All .NEXT attendees will receive a voucher to take t

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 complex. Many cloud native enterprises seeking a consistent container networking experience, along with capabilities that apply across different Kubernetes environments, have turned to Calico. Calico combines flexible networking capabilities with run-anywhere secu

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 Test Drive 2.0 running on Google Cloud Platform, which showcases Nutanix products and solutions through guided tours.Test Drive Nutanix Mine with HYCUGet started from our Test Drive Simplified Backup with HYCU site. When you log in, you will be greeted with on-screen instructions that highlight the components of Nutanix Mine with HYCU and how they fit together.The guided tour for Mine with HYCU covers four primary topics:How the physical and virtual components of Mine fit together The integration between Nutanix Pr

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 Nutanix and Juniper official websites. Juniper Contrail Contrail is an SDN controller that creates and manages overlay networks on top of the physical and virtual infrastructure. Contrail consists of two main components: Contrail vRouter: a distributed router that runs on the hypervisor and provides networking capabiliti

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, multicloud application management framework.  It is natively integrated into Prism Central, the Nutanix centralized management tool, allowing you to seamlessly select, provision, and manage your business applications across your infrastructure for any cloud. This deep dive is part of Nutanix Test Drive, which lets you experience Nutanix solutions first hand with nothing more than your web browser. By choosing bite-sized modules, you can quickly explore the following areas: Infrastructure deployment and management with Prism, AOS, and AHV Monitoring resource usage and c

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 traditionally complex load-balancing arena.

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.   Check out the new Private Cloud course, or catch up on the other courses, in the Nutanix University learning platform.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------   Nutanix Private Cloud In this training, you'll walk through what a private cloud is, why it's a better choice for some workloads, and the Nutanix products you can use to build a private cloud that meets the needs