{"id":11509,"date":"2020-09-10T19:51:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=11509"},"modified":"2025-04-17T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:56:13","slug":"nutanix-enhances-hyper-converged-infrastructure-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/nutanix-enhances-hyper-converged-infrastructure-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutanix enhances its Hyper-converged Infrastructure Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nutanix<\/a> announced major new capabilities in its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software, delivering significant innovations to the datacenter and cloud markets. Specifically, these innovations will bring up to 50% faster performance, native virtual networking to simplify multi-cloud deployments, end-to-end security monitoring to support a Zero-Trust strategy, and expanded automation and budgeting capabilities for cloud resources. In addition to extending its HCI<\/a> software stack to the public cloud<\/a>, the company continues to set the bar for innovation in the fast-growing HCI<\/a> market, putting true IT modernization within reach of all organizations.<\/p>\n

HCI<\/a> has become the standard for powering modern private clouds, and Nutanix<\/a> software is recognized by more than 17,000 customers and leading industry analysts for its unmatched simplicity, scalability, resilience, and security. Most recently, the company was recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave\u2122: Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q3 2020, in which it received the highest score across all three categories: current offering, strategy (tied), and market presence. The Forrester report shared: \u201cNutanix has maintained its position atop the HCI<\/a> market with its innovation, R&D investment, sales momentum, partnerships, and acquisition of new customers from all segments and geographies \u2026 It has a clear, impressive roadmap for its product lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s announcement highlights Nutanix\u2019s commitment to innovation to meet emerging customer requirements and further disrupting the industry status quo. With these new HCI<\/a> improvements, Nutanix<\/a> customers will benefit from:<\/p>\n

50% Faster Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nutanix<\/a> has once again advanced its HCI<\/a> architecture to exploit the latest in storage technologies, including NVMe based SSDs and Intel Optane SSDs. The resulting lower latency will deliver up to 50% faster performance for I\/O intensive workloads, such as large databases and large-scale healthcare applications. The advancements also improve VM density to lower the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) for all applications.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s new Block store technology self-manages storage with significantly greater efficiency than traditional file systems. In addition, Nutanix HCI<\/a> software adds support Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK), currently available to customers as a technology preview, an open-source library developed by Intel that enables applications to access NVMe capacity directly, avoiding any operating system or kernel-level overhead to drive even faster workload performance. Together, Block store and SPDK reinforce the benefits of Nutanix\u2019s software-defined architecture enabling continuous advancements in both performance and resiliency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough our recently announced Joint Innovation Lab, we are collaborating with Nutanix<\/a> to integrate Intel\u2019s latest and greatest technology on the Nutanix software stack,\u201d said Chris Tobias, General Manager, Optane Solutions Division at Intel. \u201cThe advanced performance capabilities Nutanix announced today, in addition to ultra low latency Intel\u00ae Optane\u2122 technology and high bandwidth NVMe storage technologies from Intel, will deliver our joint customers the HCI<\/a> solutions they need to support their most intensive application, allowing them to more readily innovate and develop new business models.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simplified Zero-Trust Security<\/strong><\/p>\n

Continuing its long-standing commitment to deliver secure infrastructure services, Nutanix<\/a> announced Flow Security Central<\/a>, a centralized SaaS-based management plane delivering compliance monitoring, network visibility, and security operations across both Nutanix-powered private clouds and public cloud environments.<\/p>\n

A Zero-Trust strategy requires granular network policy controls, and the ability to monitor and update those controls in real-time. Many organizations, however, struggle with application visibility and unified security management. Security Central provides customers with a hub for their security operations so they can easily assess the overall security posture of their Nutanix deployments, generate detailed recommendations to bring environments into compliance, and provide the network visibility and context needed to secure cloud networks and applications.<\/p>\n

In addition to Security Central, Nutanix<\/a> also announced new security capabilities, currently under development, to help customers strengthen their Zero-Trust strategy, including extensions to Nutanix\u2019s native key manager and data encryption to deliver a simplified and secure environment for edge and ROBO deployments; AHV support for Microsoft\u2019s virtualization-based Security (VBS) and Credential Guard that helps protect Windows VDI desktops against sophisticated memory attacks. Lastly, the company announced new security certifications, including updated FIPS 140-2 certificates, the government\u2019s acceptance of all Common Criteria evaluation work, as well as the completion of testing for a listing on the DoDIN Approved Products List (APL).<\/p>\n

Virtual Networking to Simplify Cloud Deployments<\/strong><\/p>\n

The company announced that new virtual networking capabilities in Nutanix<\/a> Flow, which are natively integrated into the Nutanix HCI<\/a> software stack, are under development. Based on well-understood VPC (virtual private cloud) constructs used by major public cloud providers, Flow Networking<\/a> will simplify the tasks of creating, isolating, and managing software-defined networks that connect applications running in private data centers and in public cloud environments, significantly simplifying networking for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.<\/p>\n

This new VPC technology is a result of the company\u2019s multi-year investment in Nutanix<\/a> Xi Cloud, which powers Nutanix\u2019s cloud-based solutions. Integrated with the company\u2019s AHV virtualization, it will provide customers with expanded options to connect their multiple clouds, incorporate advanced networking features, and support DevOps teams through agile networking that facilitates rapid and automated provisioning of new applications into multiple environments.<\/p>\n

Applications Insight and Automation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nutanix<\/a> also announced enhanced infrastructure operations management to better serve IT teams and application developers. Prism Ultimate, a new edition to Prism, adds advanced application insights and automation for troubleshooting application-related infrastructure bottlenecks. It also offers visibility of cloud IT resource consumption for targeted IT cost reductions and more accurate budgeting. Additionally, Nutanix Prism can also monitor non-Nutanix environments, including popular virtualization stacks, giving Nutanix customers a single pane of glass for their entire infrastructure, including legacy infrastructure environments.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur engineers and architects are building the foundation for hybrid architectures to run their applications and manage their growing volume of data, something even more important now as IT is playing a more strategic role,\u201d said Rajiv Mirani, Chief Technology Officer at Nutanix<\/a>. \u201cTo help our customers transition to hybrid and multi-cloud operating models, Nutanix has made significant investments in research and development to advance our core software stack. These new capabilities will help further strengthen the performance and reliability of our software, extending our journey across networking, security, performance, and automation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Performance improvements in the Nutanix<\/a> HCI<\/a> software, Security Central, and Prism Ultimate are currently available to customers. New software-defined networking capabilities in Nutanix<\/a> Flow are currently under development.<\/p>\n

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