Nutanix

Few weeks ago Nutanix announced beta tests for Nutanix Community Edition. Since .NEXT announcement Nutanix Community Edition is available for everyone and it is free. If you would like to get started I have several invitation codes which you can use it during registration process and get access to Nutanix Community Edition immediately. If you […]

Our journey continues! Previously, I detailed how we were curious as to how two identically configured clusters — one vSphere/VSAN and one vSphere/Nutanix — might stack up in terms of relative cost and performance.  The comparisons were eye-opening, especially for those of us who have spent time studying storage performance. We hit a snag along […]

The age of monolithic scale-up systems is coming to an end. As applications span multiple hosts and multiple datacenters, the underlying infrastructure needs to the redesigned. Building large-scale distributed systems right is a notoriously tough challenge, the pursuit of which keeps every engineer at Nutanix excited about coming to work everyday. The key challenge in […]

Nutanix Inc., which provides to large enterprises and service providers, is mulling the idea of selling a software-only version of its product, executives said on Wednesday. Even more enticing though is that Nutanix is also considering selling its software to those customers on a subscription, as well as through enterprise licensing agreements, said Sudheesh Nair, […]

Matt Eastwood, senior VP of research firm IDC spoke with theCUBE about IDC’s latest forecasts for the hyperconverged systems market. The company’s 2014 Worldwide Hyperconverged Systems Vendor Assessment ranked Nutanix a leader over SimpliVity. Nutanix generated 52 percent of all global hyperconverged revenue during the first half of 2014, the report stated. “We’ve forcasted the […]

Nutanix and CEO Dheeraj Pandey follow a “three H” philosophy: remain Hungry, Honest, and Humble. “Within our family of employees, customers, and partners, we’re extremely subservient,” says Pandey. “With the competition we’re different, because we don’t have an overlap of interests.” Honesty and Hunger are ingrained in Nutanix’s DNA, according to Pandey. “Everyone [that advised […]

Nearly 1,000 attendees flocked to Miami, Florida, for enterprise virtualization and storage company Nutanix’s inaugural .NEXT conference this week. The five-year-old company made several new product announcements to build on its hyperconverged solutions for enterprise computing. The company kicked off its presentations with introductions from the company’s first users. “How do you best highlight the […]

A little more than five years ago, Nutanix set out to raise the bar for enterprise infrastructure by rethinking storage and compute for a virtualized world. Hyperconvergence, a fundamentally different approach to enterprise storage and compute conceived by Nutanix, eliminated the complexity of the three-tier SAN architecture and made storage invisible. In five short years, […]

In a previous post, we began to present our case as to why we believe VMware Virtual SAN offers significantly more performance than an identically configured Nutanix cluster.   We thought IT professionals would find it very useful to see a side-by-side comparison across a wide range of synthetic workloads. The complete details of the […]

In an age where hybrid cloud, IaaS, and multi-cloud strategy aren’t just buzzwords, but fundamentals of enterprise computing, Microsoft and Nutanix are helping a rapidly increasing number of customers transform their datacenters with innovative, industry leading solutions. At the keynote for Nutanix’s inaugural .NEXT Conference, we were joined by Vijay Tewari, Principal Group Program Manager, […]

Moving up the stack is one of the most tried-and-true strategies for standing out from the intense competitive in the data center, but Nutanix Inc. is bringing a whole new meaning to the term with the latest iteration of the software powering its popular appliances. The upgrade, which is being introduced as the company’s Nutanix […]

A while ago I spoke with Nutanix and learned a bit about their view of the recent trend to bring many of the functions of distributed systems back together in "Hyperconverged" systems. To summarize: Nutanix has developed system software that brings together the functions of industry standard x86-based systems, storage services and storage and offers […]

Many hardware vendors have been touting convergence as the solution to the increase in total cost of ownership and long provisioning cycles found in most datacenters today. If all the servers are the same, we can save time and money deploying a homogeneous hardware footprint. This logic, however, ignores the reality that software is getting […]

Every day IT operations teams are pushed to do more, faster, while cutting costs. While legacy IT infrastructure stretches to keep up with the increasing demands and scalability needed for today’s enterprises, cloud adoption presses ahead but brings its own challenges. The costs and complexity of legacy infrastructure are high, causing IT professionals to spend […]