Nutanix simplifies
advanced Business
Continuity with automation
financial services, healthcare and
emergency services where organisations
need to deliver uninterrupted service,
Nutanix DR leverages advanced
automation technology to eliminate
the complexity of DR installation and
ongoing orchestration. Application teams
can quickly recover from unplanned
outages or data corruption and set
configurations to adhere to many stringent
compliance requirements.
Nutanix has simplified advanced Business Continuity with
the announcement of several new capabilities. The new
capabilities include advanced automation for recovering
applications and data and support for seamless multisite
disaster recovery.
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise
cloud computing, has announced
several new capabilities in its
hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
software and AHV hypervisor to protect
business-critical applications and
maintain continuous business operations
in the face of a possible disaster. New
capabilities include advanced automation
for recovering applications and data,
support for seamless multisite disaster
recovery (DR), synchronous replication
for workloads running on AHV and a near
zero data loss with ‘near sync’ replication
for recovery point objective (RPO) times
of approximately 20 seconds.
At a time when Business Continuity
is more important than ever, ensuring
businesses have strong recovery policies
and procedures is no longer a ‘nice-tohave’.
However, customers looking to
implement strong DR plans for critical
applications, such as those supporting
emergency services, had little choice
but to deploy complex, often disparate
technologies that demand specialised,
ongoing administration. The new
capabilities in Nutanix HCI and AHV
help enable customers to confidently
deliver mission-critical applications with
significantly less complexity and lower
management overhead.
“Maintaining continuous business
operations is a high priority for all types
of companies and organisations,” said
Greg Smith, VP of Product Marketing
at Nutanix. “However, most businesses
rely on custom, handcrafted DR
implementations to guard against systemwide
IT failures. Nutanix now natively
delivers automated, easy-to-deploy
disaster recovery solutions built to deliver
applications that must always be available.”
New capabilities to simplify and automate
DR efforts include:
Multisite disaster recovery: Nutanix now
supports multisite DR designs, helping
enable enterprises to quickly recover from
the simultaneous failure of two or more
data centres, while keeping applications
and data available to users. Particularly
valuable in regulated industries like
Unmatched near sync disaster recovery:
Nutanix now supports near sync
replication with an RPO of only about 20
seconds, a three times improvement from
its already industry leading technology.
Nutanix is the only leading HCI vendor to
offer a 20-second RPO.
Synchronous data replication for Nutanix
AHV: Synchronous replication or the
nearly instantaneous replication of data
between multiple locations is now natively
supported on the Nutanix AHV hypervisor.
AHV can be used by customers to deliver
a highly available service for their most
important workloads, such as virtual
desktop infrastructure, databases and
general server virtualisation.
DR orchestration with runbooks: The
latest release gives customers more
flexibility and control over the end-to-end
recovery process, with more granular
control to focus DR resources towards
targeted applications.
“Our business users expect a zero
recovery point objective, which
guarantees no data loss when a
failover occurs following a data centre
outage,” said Delfim Da Costa, System
and Infrastructure Manager at Infomil,
an IT spin-off of a large European
retailer and a Nutanix customer since
2015. “We are delighted to now use
Nutanix’s AHV virtualisation and to
maintain the highest possible SLA for
our production workloads.” ◊
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