The cloud-native community is emphasizing the importance of decoupled distribution in order to enable application mobility across different clouds. This approach allows organizations to take advantage of various services, pricing options, and functionality provided by different cloud service providers (CSPs) while also ensuring compliance with local regulations.
Decoupling applications and their data from the underlying infrastructure allows them to run on any cloud or a multi-cloud backbone. This flexibility enables organizations to deploy each application in the most suitable environment, leveraging Kubernetes-based technologies to orchestrate, secure, and manage modern applications in the cloud effectively.
Nutanix, through its Project Beacon initiative, is focusing on offering data-centric platform-as-a-service (PaaS) services that provide data natively available across different environments. The company’s research shows that a significant portion of IT teams plan to use multiple IT infrastructures, including on-premises private cloud, public cloud, and edge IoT cloud services in the near future.
Traditionally, cloud-native storage services are tied to specific public clouds, making it challenging to migrate applications across different environments without rewriting the application logic. To address this issue, Nutanix is expanding Project Beacon to include cloud-native block and file storage services that can be managed consistently across various environments, ensuring seamless access to data and storage services regardless of the deployment choice.
By offering cloud-native data services that integrate with modern orchestration environments, Nutanix aims to simplify management, enhance digital resilience, and facilitate compliance with regulations. This approach will not only reduce operational complexity but also provide platform teams and developers with fast and secure access to powerful data solutions in any deployment scenario.
Overall, Project Beacon focuses on breaking down silos, simplifying operations in complex environments, and delivering high-performance data solutions at web scale. Through decoupled distribution and cloud-native data services, organizations can achieve greater flexibility, scalability, and agility in their application deployments across different clouds.
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