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This post was written by Sabrina Leung, Customer Marketing Nutanix NEXTconf is taking over Anaheim May 7th - 9th and we’re looking forward to hosting our fourth annual .NEXT Customer Awards! We want to recognize all the work our customers have put in towards advancing their organization at our NEXT Americas 2019 event. The nomination period for the .NEXT 2019 customer awards is now open and will remain so until March 8, 2019. Each year we look for a fearless leader, a group of transformers, disruptive teams, and a giving back initiative with heart to recognize on the main stage. We’re asking you - our valued customer, partner, or field team member, to nominate a Nutanix customer who’s acted with innovation, made an impact, and moved with momentum in their organization. Our distinguished panel of judges will go through a robust review

This post was authored by Bryan Crowe Senior Staff Designer Nutanix Prism Central is a multi-cluster management tool that is used to manage all of your Nutanix infrastructure. When it was first introduced 4 years ago it had a modest list of features and 5 managed entity types (e.g. VMs). Since then we’ve introduced over 20 new entity types and numerous features such as Planning, DR, etc. Additionally, customers are increasingly managing large amounts of hosts, clusters and VMs from within a single Prism Central. This infusion of capabilities and increase in infrastructure footprint has led to the Prism Central interface reaching the scale limits of its original design. This caused us to rethink the direction of the Prism Central experience. ApproachSearch is a powerful tool to deal with scale. It facilitates a more intent based interaction with the system that flattens hierarchy and enables efficiency. For example, spotlight search on ma

This post was authored by Kong Yang Senior Solutions Marketing Manager The results of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index show while 88% of 2000 respondents expect that hybrid cloud will positively impact their business, hybrid cloud skills are scarce in IT organizations. Hybrid cloud skills ranked second in scarcity even though 74% of respondents feel the need for specialized skills to bridge hybrid cloud. More importantly, more than half (54%) of the 2000 respondents agreed that their organization has difficulty retaining IT talent. So this brings up the age old question of buy or build IT talent, which I happened to cover in an article on Network Computing entitled “The Flawed for IT Talent.” Below is the article that was originally published on Network Computing. IT leaders often rely on lengthy job descriptions to fill

Welcome back to the podcast, this week Dwayne and I chat with Harjot Gill, General Manager for Xi Epoch – our Observability and analytics platform – essentially measuring what matters when it comes to the health and performance of multi-cloud applications. Related Links Harjot Gill | Twitter Dwayne Lessner Twitter Angelo Luciani Twitter 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 improvem

Happy New Year everyone, hope you had a wonderful holiday and excited about the new year ahead. This week, Dwayne and I chat with Mike McGhee about Nutanix Files – which is our software-defined scale-out file storage solution. We cover deployment scenarios, uses cases and we have fun with DNS. Related Links Mike McGhee Twitter Dwayne Lessner Twitter Angelo Luciani Twitter If you enjoy The Nutanix Community podcast, consider providing a rating and review in iTunes or your podcasting platform of choice. It helps people f

This post was authored by Mike McGhee, Director TMM - NC2, NUS, NDB at NutanixNutanix has long supported a feature called a volume group. A volume group is a logical construct used to create and group virtual disks for the purpose of storage presentation to VMs or physical servers. Database instances like Oracle (including RAC) and Microsoft SQL Server (including Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) are commonly used in conjunction with volume groups. Volume groups were designed to serve several purposes, including:Decoupling VM and storage lifecycles Snapshot and storage replication based on volume group (virtual disk) boundaries instead of VM boundaries Storage presentation for physical (bare metal) workloads Sharing storage for clustering between multiple VMs or physical servers Scaling up storage performance for applications running in a single VM