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Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure now available on AWS
Nutanix is making its technology available on Amazon Web Services . This is done through Nutanix Clusters – a hybrid cloud extension between on-premises data centres to public clouds to manage apps in the two environments without retooling . It will give customers better flexibility in how they manage applications . and management complexity of hybrid environments and enables seamless mobility across private and public clouds without any rearchitecting of the apps due to built-in networking integration with AWS .
Customers now have the flexibility to choose the right cloud environment for each application with the added benefit of license portability across clouds , which has a direct impact on cost and resource optimization .
Additionally , customers will be able to take advantage of the company ’ s full software stack on private and public cloud . This includes unstructured storage solutions Files , application orchestration solution Calm and database administration solution Era .
Nutanix , a leader in enterprise cloud computing , has announced the general availability of Nutanix Clusters on AWS , extending the flexibility and ease of use of the company ’ s hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) software , along with all Nutanix products and services , to bare metal Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) instances on Amazon Web Services ( AWS ).
With this announcement , Nutanix delivers hybrid cloud infrastructure – one that allows businesses to accelerate their digital initiatives and optimize spending , priorities further amplified in the age of COVID . Nutanix offers a single stack that integrates compute and storage , provides unified operations across private and public clouds , integrated networking with AWS , and license portability from private to public clouds thus addressing key technical and operational challenges of the hybrid cloud era .
According to Gartner , by 2021 , 90 % of organizations will have deployed a multicloud or hybrid cloud model for their IT needs . Companies require the flexibility of multiple clouds while they continue to struggle with the complexity , operational silos and costs of managing private and public clouds . A unified solution that provides a consistent experience , tooling and operational practices across clouds will allow companies to break down silos and reduce inefficiencies while enabling the advantage of flexibility to choose the right cloud for each workload .
With this announcement , Nutanix extends the simplicity and ease of use of its software to public cloud . This eliminates the cost
Julian Doak , CISO at the Australian Bureau of Statistics , said : “ The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia ’ s national statistical agency , responsible for , among other things , the Australian Census .
“ The Census is Australia ’ s largest peacetime logistical operation and the increased IT demand needed to support this census project is one of the main reasons we looked at hybrid cloud platforms . They provide the flexibility and agility needed to adapt to significant spikes in demand .
“ We were already Nutanix customers , running our VDI and analytical workloads in our data center , and also use AWS . A single cloud solution to manage multiple clouds will make it easier to scale our IT needs .
“ Nutanix Clusters provides a seamless way to burst capacity into public clouds to increase our VDI workloads when needed to support census activities , while knowing all our apps will just work – without needing to repackage or rearchitect them .” •
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