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This post was authored by Amy Fair, Arcserve Target. Amazon. Equifax. The City of Baltimore. The City of Atlanta. What do they have in common? They have all experienced a data breach or outage that negatively affected their reputations and their customers or constituents. No entity is invincible, even with the best security software. But, making sure you have an airtight disaster recovery and business continuity (BCDR) plan is a simple step to help give you peace of mind that your data will be protected against natural and manmade disasters. The benefits of implementing a solid BCDR plan far outweigh the risks of not having one, so consider the following reasons you should have a data protection solution that works for your hyperconverged infrastructure. Protect your reputation and your revenueConsider this: your company is hit with a data breach, exposing private customer data. The news hits the wire and if you lack a BCDR plan, chaos ensues. Customers sound off on social media.

This post was authored by Manoj Gupta, VP, Global SI, Nutanix and Seshu Kumar G V, General Manager, Cloud & Infrastructure Services, Wipro Uniting Wipro’s deep systems integration & managed services knowledge with HPE and Nutanix HCI to deliver improved business agility, productivity and superior end user experiences. More and more enterprises are moving to virtualized desktops due to the immense value of the capability to rapidly, securely provision apps, workspaces, and data to a mobile, distributed, global workforce. Better access to enterprise technology services means more collaboration, higher productivity, and less wasted time. Desktop virtualization has the potential to transform the way employees can collaborate and deliver by bringing diverse teams across the globe together to work on critical projects without limitation of distance. Instant service delivery to dispersed desktops and mobile devices enables more flexibility to meet challenges and opportunities that

This post was authored by Bao Phan Sr. Marketing Programs Manager, IoT The Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting many enterprises but if utilized properly, it can set your business apart from the rest. In order to harness the power of IoT devices, you must consider processing data in real-time close to where the data is generated. With real-time insights you get a perspective on how machines are running or if factory workers are wearing proper safety gear. It’s made easy with Xi IoT. We really love helping enterprises learn about these new technologies so we will be in Boston and Chicago, where you can catch some demos and sit in on sessions with our experts. June 5-6: Internet of Manufacturing Swissotel, Chicago Visit us in the Montreaux hall to learn how Xi IoT helps manufacturing organizations leverage real-time data from image analytics, equipment monitoring, and other sensors to improve operational efficiency. Walk through the management console to see how application de

This post is authored by Mike Wronski, Jason Burns and Abhishek Tiwari Nutanix It’s been one year since we formally launched Nutanix Flow at .NEXT 2019 in NOLA. The past year has been an incredible one for us in many ways - as customers started using Flow we learned a lot about their specific challenges, microsegmentation, and the state of Software Defined Networking (SDN). Every customer we spoke to about Flow loves the simplicity of our microsegmentation offering - enabled and configured with just a few clicks, with nothing to install and backed by APIs and built-in automation. During these discussions, we also uncovered the challenges that new and current technologies have created. Below, we share those findings, lessons learned and the future of Flow. First, let’s take a quick look at how our customers are using Flow: Network Segmentation: Using Flow to segment virtual networks with software instead of physical devices or VLANs, reducing network complexity and embracing “softwar

This post was authored by Michael Haigh Nutanix Technical Marketing Engineer (aka Using Nutanix Calm to Provide Integrated Self Service for Nutanix Era) Nutanix Era is a software suite that automates and simplifies database administration – bringing one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and lifecycle management (LCM). With one-click database provisioning and Copy Data Management (CDM) as its first services, Nutanix Era enables DBAs to provision, clone, refresh, and backup their databases to any point in time. The API-first Nutanix Era architecture can easily integrate with your preferred self-service tools like Nutanix Calm. DBAs and infrastructure admins can build Era focused Calm blueprints, which developers can use to provision or clone Era managed databases via self service. This allows for DBAs and infra admins to retain sole access to the administrator accounts of Era, while still enabling developers to provision or clone databases on dema

This post was authored by John Williamson, Kevin Lash, and Sachin Chheda, Nutanix No one in the financial services industry needs to be convinced of the importance of digital transformation and hybrid cloud adoption. Nearly every day we hear about major financial institutions like JPMorgan, Santander Group, or SunTrust and BB&T investing billions--even 10s of billions--in digital initiatives. These companies have an array of objectives, including: Enhancing customer experiences by embracing the customer-centric practices of fintech and insurtech. Leveraging emerging technologies such as blockchain to facilitate new services and capture unprecedented opportunities. Accelerating time to market by empowering DevOps teams with self service and a path to continuous innovation. Increasing employee productivity with responsive digital workspaces that enable secure access to critical applications and data from anywhere. Slashing costs through operational efficiencies. To mak

This post was authored by Tim Wallace, Head of Public Sector Industry Solutions, Nutanix A few years ago, and a few jobs removed from my current position at Nutanix, I recall visiting with a customer – a small police department, which used the company’s software for case management and evidence tracking. One comment really stands in my memory. When I asked what they did for Disaster Recovery, their IT consultant replied – “Oh, I have the backup disks from last week in the trunk of my car.” While this statement stuck in my mind, in reality it is not that uncommon, especially in smaller organizations. The challenge these organizations face is the cost - both in monetary terms and in complexity - of having a proper Continuity of Operations (COOP) plan. These plans are frequently left to the end, after all the operational architectures are completed, and sometimes forgotten until some event exposes the oversight. In today’s Cloud era, implementing proper Disaster Recovery (DR) h

This post was authored by Rohit Goyal Principal Product Marketing Manager - IoT and AI at Nutanix We are quickly closing in on .NEXT Anaheim and the Nutanix IoT team is hard at work making dreams a reality. We have some really great updates in store for you. And if you are new to IoT and AI, no need to worry, we’ve got you covered there as well. Oh and we know that you like to get your hands on the latest IoT software, well no need to worry as we’ve got Hands-on Labs! Let’s take a look at the agenda and hand pick some of the sessions you shouldn’t miss! Join these sessions on May 7th, 8th and 9th to learn all about IoT, AI, and Analytics: Developer Day: Tuesday, 9:30am-4:30amDay-0 of .NEXT Anaheim starts off with a bang where you will get to hear from award-winning DevOps researcher and author of The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim; plus developers of Nutanix enterprise cloud software and APIs. Best of all, you will get to hear about the latest happening with Xi IoT! After lunch,

This post was authored by Michael Haigh, Technical Marketing Engineer Nutanix In a time where we seemingly receive news of a new data breach every week, securely storing and managing your company’s secrets is a critical component of a successful enterprise. HashiCorp Vault enables you to store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data. Vault can even dynamically generate secrets with appropriate permissions at the time of request, completely eliminating the need for password rotation. A tool like Vault is especially critical for workloads running on Kubernetes. Pods and Services frequently need secrets like Database credentials or API keys. While the built-in Kubernetes Secrets object provides basic functionality, it has several flaws, as by default they’re not encrypted, and there’s no concept of rotation or revocation. Integrating HashiCorp Vault into your Kubernetes environments eliminates the

This post was authored by our friends at Infoblox Organizations are shifting workloads to the hybrid cloud, merging on-premises infrastructure with public cloud services such as Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Enterprise IT teams are delivering on-premises IT services with the speed and operational efficiency of public cloud services by shifting to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions from companies like Nutanix. Hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures can provide many advantages, including greater speed to market, elastic scalability, and lower capital expense. However, these environments can introduce challenges that may undermine those advantages. One of these challenges is managing core network services. These services include Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and IP Addresses Management (IPAM) and are collectively known as DDI. DDI enables connectivity to all web destinations and web-based applications.

This post was authored by our friends at Veritas Data is the enterprise’s most valuable digital asset. Organizations seeking to identify new opportunities to derive value from their data must determine how effectively to manage and protect today’s modern workloads. For many, simplifying IT solutions with hyper-converged infrastructure is the best answer. IT professionals have turned to Nutanix to spend less time worrying about infrastructure and more time on the applications and services that power their businesses. Better Together: Nutanix and Veritas Technologies The partnership between Nutanix and Veritas addresses these needs, combining industry-leading data protection with Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). NetBackup integrates with Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV), using the NetBackup Parallel Streaming framework, enabling enterprises to protect large data sets across a multi-hypervisor environment. The companies are building upon the success of our joint HCI

This post was authored by our friends at Carbonite Eager to enjoy the benefits of hyperconverged environments, moving to Nutanix is often on the top of many IT departments’ dream upgrade lists. But many IT shops are hesitant to incur the downtime costs of making the move. So, they put it off. IT professionals and partners must balance the benefits of upgrading IT systems with the immediate costs of downtime, and that balance is hard to strike. There’s never a good time to temporarily take everything offline. The logistical challenges of migrations prevent many IT departments from scheduling them—despite knowing they are due to bring their systems up to date. That’s how proactive upgrades become urgent, critical overhauls—rushed projects that cost even more time and money. The IT team at the YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties in Tacoma, Washington escaped this cycle. By partnering with our team at Carbonite, the YMCA overcame their migration hurdles to retire 11 physical servers

This post was authored by our friends at Juniper Networks Join Juniper Networks at the Nutanix .Next Conference May 7-9, 2019 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. As a Gold Sponsor Juniper Networks invites you to visit our booth G-08 to learn more about how Juniper and Nutanix together offer a single platform delivering high performance and predictable scale for any virtual workload. Juniper is excited to share how the partnership between Juniper and Nutanix brings new levels of simplicity for your journey toward secure and automated multicloud. The integration of Juniper’s Contrail Enterprise Multicloud and Nutanix Acropolis HCI Platform gives you the freedom to run your workloads in any environment, operating those environments as a single cloud by providing end-to-end policy and control. Come to the Juniper booth to discover how the integration of Juniper’s vSRX virtual firewall into the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud running AHV secures the hyper converged

This post was authored by our friends at Arcserve In today’s digital economy, businesses are driven by experience rather than quality products – the experience we, as consumers, are given from the companies we do business with. In our data-driven world, the introduction of the digital consumer and fusion of technologies have enabled business optimization. Now that an organization’s most critical asset is its data, the IT function is the single most critical aspect to a business either meeting – or not meeting – customer demand. Ensuring your business is always on for your customers is vital and why data protection and business continuity are critical components of any IT strategy. Unfortunately, no organization is completely immune to attacks – disaster can strike at any time, and in today’s digital economy the cost of downtime is more than just financial; it can cause irreparable damage to your brand reputation as well. We asked 759 global IT decision makers how confident they we

This post was authored by our friends at Cyxtera If you’re a Nutanix customer, you already know the benefits of using Hyper-converged Infrastructure on-premises or in your colocation data centers. You’re able to rationalize compute, storage and management, automate lifecycle management or repurpose nodes for new workloads that require a different operating environment. All of this saves you time and money. In the era of cloud-first, however, how can you justify the upfront CapEx outlay and time to provision HCI against the OpEx model and speed to provision cloud? The answer lies in more flexible consumption models, made possible by the Cyxtera On-demand Data Center platform (CXD). Why CXD? CXD is an on-demand data center platform that enables you to point, click and provision connectivity and dedicated HCI nodes from a portal or API, in an OpEx consumption model. As such, it’s an ideal enterprise cloud environment for workloads not suited for public cloud such as steady-sta

This post was authored by our friends at Dorado Software Complete Visibility and Monitoring of hyper converged, multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures – and their associated infrastructure too! Dorado’s Cruz Operations Center – Nutanix Console is an umbrella IT management solution that gives administrators one console with implicit automation to control their data center operations, with key functions for Nutanix, like flexible log management and analysis, automated stack compliance and configuration validation, external hybrid cloud integration support, automated configuration and error correction, and multi-device updating and configuration. As a recent member of the Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Partner Program, Dorado’s Cruz Operations Center has earned the select “Nutanix Ready” validation for E2E Multi-cloud Management & Operations. Dorado’s solution helps enterprise customers with dynamic visibility and monitoring of hyper converged, multi-cloud and hybrid infrastr

This post was authored by Sachin Chheda Senior Director of Solutions and Verticals Marketing Continued from Building A Software and Application Strategy: Part 2 -- Tools Understanding how applications evolve is an important budget, resource, and lifecycle exercise. Based on the information gathered during the cataloging exercise, IT and business owners with input from operators and users should evaluate how best to handle the future of these workloads and applications. There are a few directions to consider. Following are a few regularly encountered macro-level actions that have come up in customer conversations. Rehosting: this is a simple lift and shift of an application from its existing infrastructure to a new platform--no upgrades or changes to the application. It may be virtualized on the new platform, but no major changes are made on the storage design (simple migration). This is pursued to lower costs, get applications off obsolete hardware, or to potentially handle d

This post was authored by Sachin Chheda Senior Director of Solutions and Verticals MarketingThis is the second last blog in the series on building a software and application strategy. Previous blogs in this series (here and here) explore IT’s desire to lay out a framework for applications and workloads. This blog continues the discussion by sharing information and practices on tools, evaluating choices for where applications and workloads can reside, and building a roadmap.Let’s start with the tools and the essential functionality in building an application strategy in a cloud world. In a recent informal Nutanix Xtribe community survey, members reported the following infrastructure tools they would include in their design guidelines:Provisioning tools: Deploy complex workloads (with multiple individual applications and functions), including the underlying infrastructure to run it. Self-service tools: Deliver a self-service mechanism to end-users, reducing their reliance on IT Ops. This

This post was authored by Mike Wilson Technical Marketing Engineer at Rubrik As a System Administrator, your life is full of exciting and interesting challenges, right? While that may have been why we originally embarked on a career of IT work, the reality is that most of our work is repetitive and not very exciting. One good example of this is file servers. While system administrators generally deal with block storage for virtualization or Database workloads, they also have the responsibility to serve users’ need for file sharing. In the past that would require setting up some sort of file server, carving storage up on the backend, and then making it highly available and resilient to loss. These tasks often fell into the “repetitive and boring” category for most administrators. But what if there was an easier way? There are a number of things you want to build into your file servers. Simple. Simple infrastructure comes with many benefits. Easy to understand, easy to protect

This week Dwayne and I chat with Nutanix Technology Champion David Teague about Nutanix Move. Nutanix Move accelerates the adoption of Nutanix Enterprise OS by providing application mobility services to virtual machines. Nutanix Move automates the mundane and cumbersome steps required to manually migrate or rebuild VMs on an AHV environment. Nutanix Move automates “lift and shift” VM migrations and configures the best practices needed for optimal VM performance, saving significant time and effort resulting in huge cost savings. ▶ Simple 1-Click migrations from ESX, Hyper-V and AWS ▶ Eliminates manual and error-prone repetitive tasks ▶ Near-zero service outage, with full cutover control ▶ No additional licensing needed Learn more about Nutanix Move - bit.ly/2JRJNwY Follow us on Twitter David Teague - twitter.com/_DavidTeague Dwayne Lessner - twitter.com/dlink7 Angelo Luciani - twitter.com/AngeloLuciani Nutanix Nation - twitter.com/NutanixNation Resources Nutanix Mo

This post was authored by Jill Liles Training & Certification Marketing Manager .NEXT Conference, May 7-9, 2019, Anaheim, CA is a great opportunity to learn from your peers and industry leaders on the latest technologies, strategies, best practices, and tips and tricks for modernizing your datacenter. Plus, it’s also an excellent opportunity to take the next step in your career by leaving with a brand-new certification to add to your resume! The Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) exam* will be available to .NEXT attendees for free. But before you even start packing, there are some simple things you can do to set yourself up for a successful exam: Review the NCP Exam Blueprint Guide. Make a note of any areas that you’re not comfortable with, and review the additional resources provided for that section. Take the free online Enterprise Cloud Administration course. Need to brush up on your hands-on experience too? Consider attending the instructor-led version at one o

This post was authored by Laura Jordana Technical Marketing Engineer Nutanix **Update: Nutanix Buckets was recently renamed to Nutanix Objects** The upcoming release of Nutanix Objects will introduce a native object storage solution to the Nutanix product portfolio. This object store is deployed and managed from within the same Prism user interface as other Nutanix core services, and accessed via S3-compatible applications. Nutanix Objects is compatible with common HTTP and HTTPS S3 REST APIs (including GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, and LIST operations) for object storage, meaning any application that is making S3 calls to access object storage is likely able to be used with Nutanix Objects out-of-the-box, without requiring any application or code changes. Nutanix Objects was designed differently from the beginning. Instead of being built as another set of services running in the CVM or in a specialized VM, it deploys services on a containerized platform. This platform is based on Kuberne

This post was authored by Brian Maher, Sr. Global Alliance Product Marketing Manager As the saying goes, “what a difference a year makes.“ Back in July 2018, Veeam launched support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor with Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV. This new addition was to complement the existing support Veeam has had for vSphere and Hyper-V for Nutanix customers. Within a few months, the alliance relationship started picking up speed, and it was clear that Nutanix customers embraced Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV by the number of licenses being sold in such a short amount of time. With the addition of AHV support, Veeam can now provide customers a common backup and recovery platform for Nutanix Acropolis environments that supports: Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments Granular Data Recovery for Microsoft SQL, AD, Exchange, SharePoint and Oracle that provides agentless, granular and rapid recovery of individual objects, files and individual appl

This post was authored by our friends at HYCU For many, the choice to move to hyper-converged and embrace the foundational principles set forth by Nutanix were easy. By breaking down silos to make management of the entire storage, network and compute stack simple and flexible, Nutanix helped change an industry. The benefits of 1-click simplicity and seamless scale-out for your Enterprise Apps that Nutanix enables now is endless. The choice at the time hyper-converged was emerging, was easy. At HYCU, we firmly believe there is a new time of choosing that is emerging. We believe that the simplicity that you expect with Nutanix needs to extend to the backup and recovery you use. And, we believe that data protection innovations should complement your platform of choice. It’s that belief that led us to create the industry’s first purpose-built data protection for Nutanix. We aligned ourselves to the look-and-feel of Nutanix, working closely with the User Interface (UI) team. It’s more tha

This post was authored by Evan Slack, Director of Nutanix Sales, Carahsoft The passing of legislation such as the Management Government Technology Act (MGT Act) in late 2017 shows that improving IT infrastructure and operations are top priorities for the federal government. For example, agencies need to meet the data center requirements mandated by not only the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI), but also the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA). These mandates help optimize and consolidate data centers to deliver better services for the public and provide more ROI for taxpayers. The Nutanix-Carahsoft partnership can help you meet all your requirements as well as prepare you to take advantage of the quick capital opportunities available through the passing of the MGT Act. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to modernizing a datacenter or adopting a cloud model, because every public sector institution has different requirements. That said, agency