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We are pleased to announce that Nutanix has been awarded a Common Criteria (CC) certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ (EAL2+) for the following core products: AOS and AHV. AOS storage is the foundation that makes hyperconverged infras

Most traditional IT houses are built on a foundation of some long favored conventional wisdom. To wit, “the fans and early adopters take Windows 10 right out of the box.” “We’re bleeding edge; we’ll take SP1.” “We are an enterprise; we will deploy SP2 in production.” Or, “We’ll wait for RHEL to support VMware 7.0.” If you’ve worked in IT for more than a few years, you know the drill--there are some things your leadership just does not allow in your shop.The list is long and includes, but is not limited to, “hardware replacement after business hours only.” “Patch only when security requires it!” Or, “upgrades on the weekends only when there is less potential to impact the business.”In the end, the life of the crew doing the heavy IT lifting is largely one where even with the above rules, you never know what to expect. Other than to know that your leadership values one thing: stability of the production systems, 24x7.In IT, we get stability by making sure we don’t

We are delighted to announce that Sophos XG Firewall has been validated to protect Nutanix AHV infrastructure and is Nutanix Flow Ready.Sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity protecting more than 400,000 organizations from today's most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs - a global threat intelligence and data science team - Sophos' cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints, servers, and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.Sophos XG Firewall provides comprehensive next-generation firewall protection powered by innovations in deep learning, Synchronized Security, and their new Xstream architecture. Sophos XG Firewall running on Nutanix AHV provides deeper visibility into applications, network activity, and threats – able to stop even previously unseen attacks.Sophos XG Fir

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 pr

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

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 implement

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 activi

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’

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

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 Azure

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

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 ma

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 machine

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 i

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

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 Window

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

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

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:

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 balanc

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 A

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 compl

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

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

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,