Intelligent Data Centres Issue 04 | Page 20

DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS At the heart of freedom is knowledge. There is tremendous value in using knowledge to empower IT and reclaim control over a new definition of cloud infrastructure. The infrastructure is a stop on the journey, not a destination in and of itself. The ability to choose the right workload on the right platform with the right cost is really what everyone was looking for in the first place. Public cloud is not the enemy yet being wholly locked into it is. IT wants the power to make informed decisions and to own influence and control of IT decisions and spending. The real solution is about making the cloud – as a whole – invisible. It’s about hyperconverging the cloud. It’s about a hybrid cloud environment with a seamless experience between public and private clouds so that the ‘where’ becomes secondary to the ‘how’. How can we enable our company to scale? How can we deliver new applications? How can we control costs? How can we get visibility into our entire infrastructure? How can we make better, more informed decisions? Nutanix puts the reins back in the hands of IT. Giving IT organisations freedom to focus on the customer experience. Empowering businesses to be agile and build future- forward hybrid cloud infrastructure that is invisible to the organisation but makes the IT team visible. Not just visible – empowered and relevant. Why is Nutanix a leader in Why is Nutanix a leader in Cloud and Cloud and Hyperconverged Hyperconverged Infrastructure Infrastructure (HCI)? (HCI)? Cloud computing and hyperconvergence are becoming the fundamental technology engine for Digital Transformation initiatives, including customer engagement, internal operations and updated business models. Nutanix has been declared a ‘Leader’ again in the November 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. The company has also been named as a leader in ‘The Forrester Wave: Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q3 2018’ published by Forrester Research, Inc. Nutanix has scored an average of 90 20 Issue 04 in NPS (Net Promoter Score) for four consecutive years. We believe this is a strong validation of our company’s leadership in the market it pioneered and our vision to become the next generation operating system for the enterprise cloud. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power businesses. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud platform blends web-scale engineering and consumer- grade design to natively converge server, storage, virtualisation and networking into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud consumption models, robust security and seamless application mobility for all enterprise applications at any scale. Why was was 2018 2018 a great success success for the Why a great company? for the company? In 2018 Nutanix successfully introduced market-changing technologies, as well as created new partnerships to enable the company to stay ahead in a very competitive marketplace. At the company’s annual NEXT. conference in London in November 2018, Nutanix announced the general availability of Xi IoT, a new edge computing service offered as part of the company’s Xi Cloud Services. Nutanix Xi IoT brings intelligence to the edge and enables best practice for edge computing. The company also launched Xi Cloud Services for the modern multicloud era. This new suite of offerings is designed to create a more unified fabric across different cloud environments, that gives IT teams the freedom to run their applications on the optimal platform, not restricted by technology limitations. In August last year Nutanix acquired Frame. With Frame, Nutanix customers will be able to deliver desktops-as-a- service (DaaS) from multiple clouds, combining the consumer-grade simplicity and web-scale design of cloud applications with the functionality of traditional virtual desktop applications. Earlier in 2018 the company launched Nutanix Beam, a new software-as-a- service (SaaS) offering that delivers multi-cloud governance so organisations can manage their spending, security and regulatory compliance across nearly any cloud platform. Beam is based on Nutanix’s recently-acquired Minjar Botmetric service, which is already used to manage more than US$1 billion of cloud spend across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. In the multi- cloud era, IT organisations need a unified, real-time view to all of their private, public and distributed clouds. Beam services help our customers optimise their cloud spend and manage compliance, putting them back in control of their IT assets. The strategic acquisition of Netsil in early 2018 added next-generation application discovery and operations management to Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS. The company recently launched Nutanix Flow, a software- defined networking (SDN) solution built for the multi-cloud era. Flow provides application-centric security to protect against internal and external threats not detected by traditional perimeter-oriented security products. Flow capabilities are enhanced with real-time application visibility and discovery technology from Netsil. What is Nutanix’s roadmap What Nutanix’s roadmap for 2019? for is 2019? In line with the global vision, on a regional level Nutanix will continue to position itself as the next generation operating system for the enterprise cloud. We have Gartner’s validation of being a leader in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) space. We want to be the first vendor that comes to mind as a trusted partner when enterprises in the region are ready to transform their data centres, their IT operations and their businesses. We will continue introducing market-changing new technologies and bringing on board top new talent and partners to enable the company to stay ahead in a very competitive marketplace. ◊ www.intelligentdatacentres.com