Nutanix, during its annual NEXT conference, shared its plan to expand beyond VM and offer its storage stack as a native service on Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This decision was made to cater to the growing number of organizations building cloud-native apps that are either stored in public clouds or on-premises. Nutanix introduced Project Beacon a year ago to develop PaaS products that do not require its hybrid cloud infrastructure stack. Additionally, Nutanix plans to extend its portfolio to offer database management and streaming services off-premise in a cloud-native form.
The company has deepened its partnership with Dell, where Dell will sell hyperconverged devices combining Nutanix Cloud Platform on Dell hardware. This move is not a replacement for Dell’s existing deal with VMware, but rather an opportunity to collaborate on shared solutions. Nutanix also revealed the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) at the conference, which emerged from its acquisition of D2IQ, and is tailored to operational teams’ needs, with the capability to manage clusters outside of Nutanix environments, including air-gapped clusters.
While focusing on cloud-native technologies, Nutanix continues to enhance its AHV hypervisor to run on more hardware, including support for VMware‘s Ready Nodes and Cisco’s UCS blade servers. AHV has been optimized to allow the creation of secure snapshots and asynchronous data copying, meeting the requirements of the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). Nutanix has also improved live migration across nodes, catering to mission-critical database workloads, which are now the most common on the platform.
The conference also introduced a second version of Nutanix’s GPT-in-a-Box solution, a collaboration with HuggingFace and Nvidia to enhance server power consumption metrics, aligning with the growing trend of sustainability-focused monitoring. Gartner analysts predicted that half of all organizations will adopt sustainability-focused monitoring by 2026, emphasizing the need for IT infrastructure teams to launch sustainability initiatives to reduce carbon footprints.
Overall, Nutanix’s focus on cloud-native technologies, partnerships with industry leaders, and investments in enhancing its infrastructure and platform capabilities demonstrate the company’s commitment to staying relevant and serving the evolving needs of organizations in the modern digital landscape.
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