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This Post was authored by Fred Feirn Digital Photography and Graphic Design Teacher Serving nearly 9,000 students, the White Bear Lake Area School District is at the forefront of educational excellence. We believe technology can do more than simply improve course delivery. It can transform the way courses are taught, and how students learn, by providing access to education anytime, anywhere, on any device. One of our most successful initiatives has been our 1:1 technology program, implemented four years ago. Each student was given a Chromebook to use throughout the school year, enabling them to work on course curricula at school and away from campus. My courses of Digital Photography and Graphic Design were historically taught in a classroom with networked computers. As the popularity of social media and photography grew, more students became interested in photography techniques, and enrollment in my classes expanded. The class also met the state art standard

Welcome back to the podcast, this week is another Nutanix QuickTake with Danielle Tomakin and Christie Vaughan. Today we talk about Nutanix user groups and Xtribe. These are two great community programs that connect you to the broader Nutanix community.   Follow us on Twitter Christie Vaughan - twitter.com/ChristayVaughan Danielle Tomakin - twitter.com/TomakinDanielle Angelo Luciani -

One of the ways I learn is by joining webinars. Even if its technology that might not be on my radar at the moment, I make the time to engage in discussions and learn about 'what’s new' or learn 'new ways' to do things. This month we have a number of really interesting webinars available. Join one or join them all, one thing is for sure, you will come away more knowledgeable! Check out these webinars; Simple, Affordable, No-Install Disaster Recovery: That’s Xi Leap Mar 4, 2020, 10:00 AM PT Businesses are increasingly dependent upon IT for competitive advantage while threats against IT are ever-increasing. Business-critical applications have become the lifeblood of the enterprise even though the gap is widening between this reliance on IT services and a company’s ability to protect it. The cost of building a

In this series, we’ve learned Nutanix provides more usable Capacity along with greater capacity efficiency, flexibility, resiliency and performance when using Deduplication & Compression as well as Erasure Coding. We’ve also learned Nutanix provides far easier and superior storage scalability and greatly reduces the impact from

In this series, we’ve learned Nutanix provides more usable Capacity along with greater capacity efficiency, flexibility, resiliency and performance when using Deduplication & Compression as well as Erasure Coding. We’ve also learned Nutanix provides far easier and superior storage scalability and has greatly reduce impact from

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 &

In part 1 of Deduplication & Compression Comparison – Nutanix ADSF vs VMware vSAN, we talked about data reduction/efficiency technologies which apply further storage capacity efficiencies to the usable capacity. In part 2, we’ll look deeper at how, when and where the data reduction takes place. The following table shows the storage tiers the data reduction technologies are supported for both products: vSAN data reduction technologies are NOT applied in the high performance “cache” tier whereas they are with Nutanix where in-line compression for writes is on by default and Deduplication is supported. With vSAN, Deduplication and Compression are only applied once the data is cold and de-staged to the capacity tier. Going back to the reference I made earlier that VMware has

In a recent post, 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 up we compared Deduplication & Compression technologies where we learned Nutanix has outright capacity efficiency, flexibility, resiliency and performance advantages over vSAN. Now we’ll look into Erasure Coding which is another valuable and proven technology that can drive further capacity and potentially performance efficiencies, complimentary to Deduplication and Compression. As I’ve highlighted in the previous articles, “Tick-Box” style slides commonly lead to

In a recent post, I compared the actual Usable Capacity between Nutanix ADSF vs VMware vSAN on the same hardware and we saw approx 30-40% more usable capacity delivered by Nutanix. The next logical step is to compare data reduction/efficiency technologies that apply further storage capacity efficiencies to the usable capacity. In the previous post, I declared “a wash” between the two products for the sake of simplifying the usable capacity comparison. However, the reality is it’s not a wash as the Nutanix platform has the ability to deliver more usable capacity from the same HW. Combine that with a superior storage layer in the form of the Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric (ADSF) which compliments data reduction technologies, vSAN is bringing a spoon to a gunfight. In this post, we’ll look at Deduplicatio

When considering Hyper-converged (HCI) products, often vendors, partners, value-added resellers & customers compare multiple solutions which of course makes perfect sense. During these comparisons, marketing material, in many cases “Tick-Box” style slides being compared and worse still being taken on face value which can lead to incorrect assumptions for critical architectural/sizing considerations such as capacity, resiliency and performance. Let me give you a simple example: A customer chooses/needs 16 nodes to meet their requirements and they choose the most popular form factor being a 4 node per 2 rack unit (4N2U) for the density, power efficiency and high performance. The nodes are populated with 6 x 1.92TB drives (All-Flash) as the cost of flash was justified for their use case/s. So we’re left with 16 hosts * 6 drives = 96 total drives 96 x 1.92TB drives with a formatted capacity of ~ 1.78TB = 170.88TB Then the customer com

To fully experience a conference is to get immersed in it, and one way to do this is to be a speaker. This is a great way to build your personal brand and get out of your comfort zone and share with the community the cool things you have been able to achieve. Show your passion for solving IT bottlenecks to the world! We are looking for industry go-getters to speak at our upcoming .NEXT conference in Chicago and we think you’d be the perfect fit for  one of our speakers! Take center stage and build up your brand by leading your very own session at one of the world’s leading tech conferences. If selected you will have a 30-minute session dedicated to the topic of your choice during the main event AND you will also receive: A complimentary conference pass 2 nights hotel accommodation in Chicago covered by Nutanix A session owner to guide you through the process Professional speaker coaching from our award winning coach Feedb

This post was authored by Gabe Contreras, Enterprise Architect Nutanix When discussing big data architectures, we are talking about how data is taken in, processed and consumed.  This constitutes your big data pipeline.  The architecture can vary greatly.  For instance, take one of the most common architectures with Lambda, you have a speed processing and batch processing sides.  Speed processing is more real time analytics and querying. Batch processing takes longer and is normally done at scheduled times for taking a deeper look over a longer period of time. The components to build this vary greatly, it can be a choose your own adventure book with how you build your pipeline.  Some of the components used are Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Elasticsearch and Cassandra.  All of these systems have one main thing in common, they are highly scalable.  These components can gro

This post was authored by Mike McGhee Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix The Ever-Expanding Universe of DataFrom enterprise applications to the internet of things (IoT), the number of connected devices which produce data is growing at a staggering rate. Business Insider forecasts that by 2020 more than 24 billion internet-connected devices will be installed around the globe [1]. It’s no wonder analysts from IDC predict that by 2025 the world will produce 175 zettabytes of data, a tenfold increase from what was generated in 2016 [2]. The vast majority of this data is forecast to be unstructured. While much of this unstructured data will reside within Object Storage based services, a large amount, and likely the most actively accessed, will reside in network attached storage (NAS) leveraging the SMB and NFS protocols within datacenters. Traditional systems with their inherent limits on managing unstructured data at scale will be

This post was authored by Saad Azam Education & Community Marketing Specialist at Nutanix. We have finally come out with What’s New in AOS 5.16! You can use this course to help you learn about all the features and get up to speed fast with everything AOS 5.16.  This short online training covers advanced features found in AOS 5.16 including storage capacity, data protection, security, cluster lifecycle management, and much more! The NEW features discussed in this course are: Secure Boot Support for VMs, and Nodes running AHV

This post was authored by Jill Liles Sr Marketing Manager at Nutanix.We want to let you know about an exciting addition to the Nutanix Certification program: digital badges and improved certificates. Digital BadgesWe have partnered with Credly to use their Acclaim platform to distribute digital versions of all your Nutanix certifications. Digital Badges provide information describing your qualifications and the steps you completed to earn your certification.There is no cost for using a Digital Badge, it’s simply another way to share your achievement with the world. BenefitsEach digital badge you earn comes with these benefits:

This post was authored by Lauren Willard Nutanix We already know that Nutanix built hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to solve datacenter complexity issues. But you may not be aware that we also have our own virtualization offering, AHV (it’s not an acronym, I checked). AHV was created to further reduce complexity issues around virtualization and HCI. It’s the answer to merging and converging virtualization and is a crucial part of HCI. You can either bolt on a hypervisor or choose to have it integrated and built into your HCI product to gain additional benefits without the extra cost and time it takes to add it to your infrastructure. Integrating virtualization into HCI infrastructure allows you to be more application focused making your infrastructure more service-based. What are you paying for? While you can use other virtualization solutions with our HCI, you may be paying for it unnecessarily. Nutanix includes a license to use A

This post was authored by Jill Liles Connected Customer Experience Manager at Nutanix.The Nutanix Certification team is thrilled to let you know about our new exam delivery platform, available today!This new platform offers streamlined enrollment and registration, while maintaining exam security and the flexibility of remote delivery. The new platform will also provide faster exam results – you’ll know your certification status immediately. Download step by step registration instructions here.What’s new:Exam Scheduling: The new system has yo

This post was authored by Luke Congdon, Sr. Manager, Product Management for AHV Keep database licensing under control by combining strong storage policies with AHV auditing In the early years of my career in enterprise software, I often heard that downtime of servers, networks, and components was undesirable, but the fidelity of your data was mission critical. Most things can be restarted or fixed, but lost data might remain lost forever. It’s a real concern when you run a mission-critical workload that might be responsible for making your end of year financial sales, or a workload who’s resulting work could impact lives. It’s no surprise then, that databases are critical components of any stateful computer architecture. Databases and database management systems have a long history and come in many generations and vendors. By the 1990s, relational databases (RDBMS) became very popular. Despite newer NoSQL databases having come to market in

This post was authored by Jill Liles Connected Customer Experience Manager at Nutanix.   The brand new Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Solutions online training series introduces you to the fundamental building blocks of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Each course consists of two parts: A deep dive into the product themselves, through videos exploring these core components See how we tie them together to help you solve your business needs   Four courses are currently available, and our curriculum team is hard at work building out even more: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) - If you're new to hyperconvergence and/or the Enterprise

This post was authored by Jill Liles Connected Customer Experience Manager at Nutanix.   On-prem vs. cloud. Public vs. private. 3-tier vs. hyperconverged. Computing choices have come a long way since IBM released the first commercial mainframes back in the day.   Join us as we take a look at the mile markers of our ever-evolving industry – from ENIAC and servers, to datacenters, web-scale infrastructure, and the cloud.   Welcome to the Fundamentals of the Enterprise Cloud, perhaps one of the most interesting technology stories of our times.  

This post was authored by Saad Azam Education & Community Marketing Specialist at Nutanix. Help build the future NCAP! The Nutanix Certification team has been busy developing an update for the Nutanix Certified Advanced Professional (NCAP) program to cover AOS 5.10 – and it’s now ready for beta testing at no charge. But there is a catch – the beta exam is only open to the first 100 people to complete it. After that, we’ll pull the results and begin working towards the live exam.

This post was authored by Laura Jordana, Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix We are excited to announce the release of our new and improved Nutanix Test Drive, running on Google Cloud Platform! Nutanix Test Drive History For the past couple of years, we have offered the capability for customers and prospects to try out a Nutanix instance directly from their web browser. The original offering was a cloud-based version of Nutanix Community Edition (CE). In early 2019, we were able to deploy the full-blown Nutanix AOS software in the cloud and enhanced the experience by incorporating a couple of guided demos on how to create a storage contain

What a great way to start the new decade, here are your 2020 Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC). This group of IT professionals, are from every cloud, application and technology group. Their diverse backgrounds, experiences, and expertise help their organizations and the virtualization community to challenge the status quo. Last year we introduced the NTC Elite designation and this year I am excited to add one more person to that list. The power of mentoring and encouraging others to strive for more is what being part of a community is all about. NTC Elite is for those that have also earned their NPX designation.  This past year has been opportunity for us to see other grow, learn and get out of their comfort zone. From blogging, running user groups and being fully immersed in our .NEXT conference experience.   I'm looking forward to another exciting year and learning from many of you. Take the time to get to know one another and congratulate each other on so

This post was authored by Yashesh Mankad, Staff Engineer Nutanix Nutanix Era is a suite of software that automates and simplifies database management, bringing one-click simplicity to database provisioning and life cycle management (LCM), copy data management (CDM), and database backups. Era also provides simplicity in tracking and limiting access to databases and their copies through a sophisticated role-based access control (RBAC) mechanism. While Era does not access any data in a customer's databases, it does maintain metadata about those databases and virtual machines, including the database name, size, access credentials, v

This post was authored by Saad Azam Education & Community Marketing Specialist at Nutanix.   As many of you already know, we have partnered with Credly to use their Acclaim platform to deliver digital badges for Nutanix Certifications. These badges provide information about your qualifications and are an easy way to share the investment you’ve made in your own professional growth.   But did you know you can use these badges to find your dream job from the Labor Market Insights data?     What are Labor Market Insights? Labor Market Insights is a neat area on the Acclaim platform that helps you find career opportunities. You can filter by job title, location, employer, and even salary range. All the job postings on the platf