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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 openings, overlooking latent talent. IT leaders are at the digital revolution crossroad where applications, business development, and IT operations converge

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 improvements in the series by seeing what you have to say. Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, Stitcher or SoundCloud. Follow NutanixNation on Twitter for news and announcements. See you next time!

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 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, Stitcher or SoundCloud. Follow NutanixNation on Twitter for news and announcements. See you next time!

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 or physical serverIt is this last point of scaling up performance where I’d like to focus. Nutanix makes it possible to load balance virtual