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Welcome back to the podcast. This week, Dwayne speaks with Christine McMonigal from Intel and Jason Burns from Nutanix about a recent blog post titled: Journey to the Hybrid Cloud with Nutanix and Intel. You will learn how we at Nutanix leverage the Power of Intel for Test Drive. It's a good one.ResourcesBlog: Journey to the Hybrid Cloud with Nutanix and Intel To learn more about Nutanix software, take a free Nutanix Test DriveIf you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.

This post was authored by our friends at Microsoft, Ram GowrishankarToday, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure to simplify and accelerate the customer journey to the cloud. Nutanix's customers can migrate and extend their workloads to Azure, without modification or retooling.With Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure, customers can leverage their existing Nutanix skills and tools, add Azure services – such as security, identity, and analytics – and gain cost efficiencies by using their existing licenses for Azure deployment.And, to further support a hybrid model, customers can seamlessly extend Azure data services to their on-premises Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters using the Nutanix Cloud Platform.Keep reading to learn more about key benefits, use-cases and how to get started. Key benefits to your hybrid cloud transformationWith Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure, organizations can develop a consistent hybrid cloud deplo

As new cybersecurity threats evolve, Nutanix has been hard at work improving the way you patch, upgrade, and operate your Nutanix Cloud Platform. We understand how critical and difficult patching and upgrading can be, especially in a world under constant attack. You must be resilient, and proper lifecycle management improves your cyber resilience!We know that upgrades can be a bit intimidating, but fear not! Nutanix is continually working to make the process smoother and more efficient. We’re thrilled to announce a new version of Nutanix Life Cycle Management (LCM), 2.6! 1. LCM Customs! Sleek New Pre-Upgrade / Update ChecksLCM 2.6 now allows you a dry-run of selected upgrade tasks for your Nutanix Cloud Platform. Quickly understand and reduce unexpected upgrade failures by running pre-checks, ensuring smooth upgrades.Think of it like a dry run, with just one click. AOS, PC, and ESXi in LCM are all supported.And that's not all - any module can call the NCC pre-check task, and we expect

This week Sean Donahue is joined by two old friends and of the EUC Industry, Samit Halvadia CTO at Rimo3 and Al Solorzano VP Digital Workplace at e360. The folks recount all the buzz that was at the recent IGEL Disrupt event in Nashville. Hear their firsthand perspective on the announcements, news of their personal highlights from the event.If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.

This is a guest post from Srujana Puttagunta - Senior Product Marketing Manager RubrikAre you attending the .NEXT 2023 conference in Chicago this year? As a gold sponsor, Rubrik is excited to showcase its industry-leading data security platform designed specifically to combat the growing threat of cyberattacks and help organizations recover with speed and confidence.Legacy backups are obsolete – here's whyAccording to a recent survey, 66% of organizations were hit with ransomware within the last year. Relying on legacy backups as a defense against cyberattacks is ineffective and obsolete in today's rapidly evolving threat landscape.Legacy backups are vulnerable to cyberattacks, fail to provide critical insights and visibility into what data is at risk, and don’t allow you to simulate and test your recovery, which makes it difficult to ensure that the restored data is free of malware.Rubrik Security Cloud: A trusted solution for cyber recoveryRubrik Security Cloud is the leading data se

This is a guest post from Kumaran Siva, Corporate Vice President of Server Business Unit Strategic Business Development, AMDDid you know your CPU choice matters when you upgrade your datacenter? As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, virtualization has become an increasingly efficient way to improve your operations and sustainability. Together with you, Nutanix and AMD help modernize your datacenter.AMD EPYC™ processors are built for performance, offering up to 96 cores per socket, and with energy efficiency thanks in part to 5-nm process technology. The new EPYC 9004 Series introduces support for high-performance DDR5 DIMMs, fast PCIe® Gen 5 I/O, and support for 12 memory channels, delivering the resources needed for memory-hungry AI, ML, HPC, and large in-memory computations. They provide a significant boost in speed, performance and scalability, making them perfect for demanding workloads such as virtualization.The Nutanix HCI solution is equipped with features that simp

This is a guest post from Lee Space, Palo Alto NetworksMore than 80% of businesses today operate in hybrid cloud environments, and cybercriminals are always probing for vulnerabilities, especially as security gaps widen with an organization’s migration to hybrid cloud infrastructure. Hackers are also coming for your cloud-based applications, and over 45% for business were breached in 2022.That’s why it’s more important than ever to implement and build upon Zero Trust strategies to secure each network, cloud, workforce, and cloud applications. Join Palo Alto Networks at the Nutanix .NEXT conference as we help you navigate security solutions – Zero Trust and beyond – to protect your organization from the ever-changing and sophisticated threat landscape.Learn more about Palo Alto Networks and our partnership and integrations with Nutanix. Palo Alto Networks is a gold sponsor at .NEXT and you will have opportunities to meet the team, learn more about our partnership, and enhance your Zero

How to get off the sidelines and accomplish your datacenter modernization goalsThis is a guest post from Joseph George, Vice President of Compute, Industry and Strategic Alliances, Hewlett Packard EnterpriseWhen I talk to customers, nearly all of them have datacenter modernization on their minds. Some want to free themselves from the cost concerns and risks of legacy IT so they can simply run existing applications with better performance, efficiency, and security. Some want the latest IT so they can take advantage of cool new technologies like AI, blockchain, containers, and quantum computing.Many want to do all of this. And nearly all of them hope modernization will help them overcome challenges with staffing shortages, budget pressures, and the need to reduce energy consumption to fight rising energy costs and meet sustainability goals.Datacenter modernization done right can help you accomplish these goals and more. It can help you do more with less and stretch budget and staff resou

Today, organizations face many choices on where to run their applications and what is best for their employees and customers. The use of public (shared) clouds has emerged as an alternative to running applications on a private (with the organization’s data centers). While each has benefits, many enterprises are using both types of clouds. While specific applications may require highly tuned servers, storage, or networking profiles, many applications can be run in either environment.Enterprises may run hundreds of different applications which consume differing amounts of compute, storage, and networking performance, to deliver agreed-upon SLAs to the customers (users). Highly tuned systems may also include a specific amount of cores, memory, storage types, and networking options unavailable in a public cloud environment. While public clouds offer many types of instances to customers, there are still many configurations that cannot be rented in a public cloud. For example, if terabytes o

Our patented browser-based, SSO solution for Windows Active Directory domain-joined VMsFrame® customers now have early access to the new Frame SSO  feature, which provides Windows® Active Directory (AD) SSO into virtual apps and desktops — all from your Frame Dashboard (Settings > Domain Settings > Frame SSO) on a per Frame Account basis.This blog guides you through  a deep-dive on this industry leading feature, how it works and how it compares to other solutions from other DaaS vendors, and why we believe Frame SSO is a game-changer.BackgroundThe desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) industry continues to face a long-standing challenge in providing AD SSO into Windows domain-joined virtual desktops. Users are typically required to log in at least twice — once to their DaaS platform and a second time to AD if the VM hosting their session is domain-joined.Further complicating this issue, different sets of credentials — usually a SAML 2.0-based identity provider like ADFS, AzureAD, Google, o

In this episode, Sean Donahue and Charley Huang from NVIDIA will debate the increasing demands being seen on GPU’s from the most unexpected workloads. Are GPUs still reserved only for the 3D CAD / CAM operators and a luxury for the knowledge worker? You may be surprised with the answers to these questions and more.ResourcesNVIDIA A16 GPU – Unlock an unprecedented VDI user experience NVIDIA Nutanix Partner Page Full Frame Rate VDI Video - Nutanix and NVIDIA A16 GPUs eliminate the jaggies!If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts. 

Join this episode for more Stories from the EUC Road as Sean Donahue (Nutanix) and Al Solorzano (E360) tackle this all too familiar question. But does it have to an “OR” statement? Can you have an “AND” statement instead? Tune in to learn more about performance in EUC, happy employees and how you might sleep better at night in the age of Malware and Ransomware.ResourcesBuild a Fortress with Data Lens for Free! Put an end to Storage worries with Unified Data Services Nutanix Data Lens Powers Data Management and Ransomware Protection Nutanix boosts data management services in the cloud Nutanix Files 4.1 anti-ransomware: Through the Data LensIf you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.

We are starting a new series called Stories from the EUC road. Today we have Sean Donahue, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager for Nutanix, speaking with Al Solorzano from E360 on runaway capacity planning.First up – the case of the runaway capacity planning. How one customer was able to right size with the proper tools and avoided the dreaded capacity sprawl. The tech team were armed with knowing they have a right sized deployment and the data to show management when they need to scale or the impact of change.ResourcesNutanix End User Computing Burst Citrix Desktops to AWS With Nutanix Cloud Clusters How Nutanix + Citrix assisted Seattle Children’s hospital | IT Unplugged How to Make a Smooth Transition to Cloud with Citrix and NutanixIf you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.

The release of the Nutanix Files™ 4.2.1 software version adds support for compliance level WORM within Files Storage Service of Nutanix Unified Storage. If you recall from our 4.1 release we introduced support for WORM (see the blog here Nutanix Files Episode 4.1 - A Security Story). In the 4.1  release, Files introduced support for Enterprise or Governance level WORM allowing customers to store files in a write-once-read-many state.However, a user can still be granted access to conduct what are called “privileged deletes”. The privileged access allows operators with the proper permissions the ability to expire a WORM file before the retention timer elapses. This could be fine for organizations where the business requirements are not aligned or not needed to adhere to regulatory requirements to retain WORM stored data in a locked state until the policy expires. However, the ability to delete data before WORM policy expiration is not acceptable for heavily regulated industries that requ

In this episode, Sean Donahue looks back at the tech stories from 2022. The highs, lows, and everything in between. What story did we miss? Which stories surprised you in 2022? Please leave your comments below.Have a wonderful 2023! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts. 

In this episode, Sean Donahue is joined by Al Solorzano of E360 to discuss the worst disasters they've recovered from. Surprise twist, not all clouds are cumulonimbus and not all disasters are natural.ResourcesEnsure Data Disaster Recovery with Nutanix Make Disaster Recovery a Breeze Data Protection for Modern Business EnvironmentsIf you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts.