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.

If 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 Summary

Hybrid Cloud Solutions with Nutanix and Microsoft Azure

A Strategic Partnership to Develop Hybrid and Multicloud Solutions with Seamless App Mobility and Unified Management Across Private Cloud and Azure.

Nutanix Announces Partnership with Microsoft Azure for a Seamless Hybrid Experience

A new partnership with Microsoft that will enable both companies to deliver a hybrid solution with seamless application, data, and license mobility as well as unified management across on-premises and Azure environments, using Nutanix Clusters on Azure.

Generational AOS Advancements Accelerate HCI Performance

The introduction of Blockstore and SPDK integration with the AOS 5.18 release takes application performance to new heights and unlocks the power of the latest storage technologies like NVMe, enabling Nutanix customers to optimize the performance of their most demanding workloads.

Nutanix Cements Market Leadership with New HCI Software Innovations

Nutanix today announced major new capabilities in its popular hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software, delivering significant innovations to the datacenter and cloud markets.

Nutanix Launches Kubernetes Platform-as-a-Service for the Multicloud Era

Karbon Platform Services Provides Managed Offering to Accelerate Container-Based Application Delivery and Operations on Any Cloud

Announcing Early Access to Xi Calm

Nutanix Calm customers are constantly tasked with delivering infrastructure and applications to their end business units. With the Calm marketplace, IT teams can create a self-service portal for their operations and developer teams

The Key to Accelerating Innovation in the Public Sector

Nine months ago, we started talking about the new features coming in Veeam Availability Suite v10, with the continued effort to support customers moving to Nutanix AHV as their hypervisor of choice.

One Place for your Security Planning, Operations, and Compliance for Nutanix

At our 2020 .NEXT conference we’re announcing the availability of Flow Security Central (FSC) to be launched on September 21, 2020. Security Central was created to provide Nutanix customers with a hub for their security operations so they can easily assess the overall security posture of their Nutanix deployments and gain the context required to implement a Zero Trust security strategy in their environments.

Introducing Advanced Networking with Nutanix Flow

At our 2020 .NEXT conference we’re announcing the planned availability of Flow Networking for our AHV virtualization solution, bringing virtual private cloud (VPC) and other advanced virtual networking constructs together to bridge traditional and cloud-native network models.

Intel and Nutanix – Taking Storage and Memory to New Heights

We’re excited to announce that Intel Optane technology - both SSDs and persistent memory (limited availability) will be available on Nutanix appliances and OEM hardware supporting the Nutanix software stack. Intel Optane SSDs are in full production and now available for Nutanix and OEM platforms.

.NEXT Keynotes

These forums are the best place to collaborate with the Nutanix community. Ask questions, get answers and learn how best to accelerate your journey to the hybrid cloud.

Thanks for attending .NEXT and reach out to me if you need anything!