Empower Your Apps with Nutanix Modern Infrastructure for an App Driven World

Faced with the challenge of enhancing IT to support an app-centric reality? Nutanix modern infrastructure for an app-driven world delivers the hyperconverged infrastructure necessary to meet this demand head-on. With a focus on optimizing app performance and achieving agile scalability, this article explores how Nutanix transforms IT environments for better efficiency and stronger results in an app-driven world.

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Key Takeaways

• Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) modernizes data center architecture by integrating compute, storage, networking, and virtualization, reducing latency, and simplifying IT infrastructure, thereby supporting modern applications and offering cost-effective scalability.

• The Nutanix Cloud Platform functions as a cohesive and unified solution for managing diverse environments including public cloud, on-premises data centers, and edge locations, enhancing security, simplifying operations, and providing seamless management across multicloud ecosystems.

• Nutanix stands at the forefront of innovation, with its Cloud Platform aiming to streamline complex workloads, accelerate time to value, and enable sustainable IT strategies, while optimizing application delivery in a hybrid multicloud environment for enterprise agility and competitive advantage.

Harnessing Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Today's Apps

Embracing the future requires a departure from the conventional. Traditional data center components operating in isolation can no longer keep pace with the demands of modern applications. Enter Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), a unified, software-defined solution that integrates:

• compute

• storage

• networking

• virtualization

In this consolidated environment, latency is minimized and IT infrastructure simplified, paving the way for a smooth, efficient, and streamlined platform.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform offers the following benefits:

• Eliminates the need for separate servers, storage systems, and Storage Area Networks (SANs)

• Modernizes data center architecture

• Supports the demands of an application-driven world

This modern infrastructure is not just a step forward—it’s a leap into the future, with a strong focus on innovation and efficiency.

Streamlining Operations with HCI

How does Nutanix HCI simplify data center management, you ask? It integrates computing, storage, networking, and virtualization into one cohesive system, improving resource use and reducing costs. The benefits extend beyond mere cost savings. Nutanix HCI also streamlines management efforts and enhances operational efficiency through centralized control and automated routine tasks.

But the buck doesn’t stop at efficiency. Nutanix HCI also provides organizations the ability to scale their virtualized infrastructures on-demand, ensuring efficient scalability alongside management ease. This means businesses can not only streamline operations but also scale without breaking a sweat—all thanks to Nutanix HCI.

Enhancing Performance for Modern Applications

Performance is the heart of modern applications, and Nutanix HCI ensures it beats strong and steady. The platform’s distributed architecture enables parallel data access, eliminating storage bottlenecks and ensuring consistent performance across applications. Add to this the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform’s advanced storage features, and you have a formula for enhanced performance for virtualized workloads.

But the Nutanix advantage is not limited to virtualized workloads. Its software-defined storage technology improves data access times and minimizes latency, enhancing performance across a variety of applications, including:

• Business-critical apps

• Server virtualization

• Big data applications

• Cloud-native services

Nutanix HCI is not just about performance—it’s about high performance, across the board.

Achieving Cost-Effective Scalability

Growth and expansion in the business world often come with a hefty price tag. But with Nutanix’s scalable architecture, you get cost-effective growth without major disruptions or expenses. Nutanix’s approach to storage further enhances the agility of data centers, employing techniques such as thin provisioning and deduplication.

The result? Significant savings. Customers using Nutanix report an average total cost of ownership savings of 43%, and a 53% increase in the efficiency of IT management. And with the flexibility to add storage, CPU, or RAM independently to meet specific application requirements, efficient resource allocation is just a click away. The Nutanix Cloud Platform also supports a range of hardware options from various vendors, offering flexibility in hardware platform selection for multicloud environments.

With Nutanix, scaling is not just possible—it’s achievable cost effectively.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform: A Unified Solution

Diving deeper, we find the Nutanix Cloud Platform at the heart of it all—a unified solution that integrates various components to establish a cohesive environment for application management. This powerful platform spans public cloud, on-premise data centers, and edge computing scenarios, establishing a seamless network for applications and data.

The platform offers the following benefits:

• Connects different environments

• Enhances security

• Streamlines operations

• Manages data centers, clouds, and edge locations

• Provides a seamless, secure, and efficient operations network.

Nutanix’s Cloud Platform is more than a unified solution—it’s a powerhouse of possibilities.

A Single Platform for Multicloud Management

Managing multiple clouds might sound like a Herculean task, but not with Nutanix Central. This SaaS-based unified console provides a single pane of glass for managing Nutanix environments across:

• On-premises

• Public cloud

• Hosted

• Edge infrastructure

This breaks down silos and simplifies large-scale management.

But Nutanix’s platform is more than just a management tool—it’s a bridge that ensures consistent and reliable management of applications and data across different cloud environments. It offers:

• License portability across on-premises, edge, and public clouds

• A universal cloud operating model focused on enterprise governance

• Global visibility and reporting

• Intelligent workload optimization

• App-centric management

This makes it an all-in-one solution for managing hybrid and multicloud environments, offering seamless multicloud management.

Driving Business Outcomes with Data Centers

Nutanix isn’t just transforming IT infrastructures—it’s driving business outcomes. By transforming traditional data centers into agile platforms, Nutanix supports business expansion and enhances overall performance. This isn’t just theoretical—the Saudi Arabian Capital Markets Authority’s data center transformation with Nutanix led to significant improvements, including a 50-75% boost in overall performance and a 50% reduction in operational expenses.

The transformation isn’t limited to public entities. The collaboration between Wipro and Nutanix aims to deliver intelligent cloud capabilities, crucial for shortening time to market and enhancing the competitive edge for companies worldwide. With Nutanix, data centers are not just storage houses—they’re catalysts for business outcomes.

Security at the Forefront

In the digital age, security is paramount—and Nutanix understands this. The platform embeds security throughout its infrastructure, employing features like Security Configuration Management Automation and data-at-rest encryption to safeguard against threats.

As an additional layer of protection, Nutanix offers Security Central, a cloud-based service that enhances protection with tools for microsegmentation security planning, threat detection alerts, and continuous compliance measures across infrastructures. It also ensures business continuity and effective disaster recovery by maintaining resilient data center capabilities that extend protection at multiple levels within the data infrastructure.

With Nutanix, security isn’t an afterthought—it’s at the forefront.

Empowering Enterprises with Nutanix's Innovation

Nutanix is not just keeping pace with the rapidly evolving tech landscape—it’s leading the way with innovation. The company is actively developing new features within the Nutanix Cloud Platform to bolster security and enhance performance for applications and data.

These capabilities are integral to addressing the growing needs for powerful and secure application performance in enterprise environments. And with Nutanix Central, all these application and data capabilities are streamlined, providing a unified platform for efficient operations. With Nutanix, enterprises are not just adapting to change—they’re leading it.

Simplifying Complex Workloads

Complexity is the nemesis of efficiency, and Nutanix is all about defeating it. Nutanix Prism, the centralized management solution, simplifies infrastructure and virtualization management through a single interface. Server virtualization within HCI also allows for real-time capacity increases and optimized application performance.

But Nutanix’s quest for simplicity doesn’t stop there. Through strategic partnerships with Wipro FullStride Cloud and NVIDIA, the platform improves complex workload management while efficiently addressing scaling and security challenges. The forthcoming Nutanix Central will further support the modern application ecosystem by empowering IT teams to provide self-service infrastructure while maintaining governance and security.

With Nutanix, complex workloads are simplified, making way for efficiency and productivity.

Accelerating Time to Value

In the fast-paced digital world, speed is of the essence—and Nutanix delivers. The platform can deploy a cloud application-ready environment 97% faster than traditional three-tier on-premises infrastructure. It also significantly enhances application performance and data efficiency soon after deployment.

The proof? Look no further than The Home Depot, which standardized on Nutanix to expedite software development and decrease total cost of ownership. With Nutanix, businesses can not only achieve faster deployments but also accelerate time to value, ensuring a swift return on investment.

Enabling Sustainable IT Strategies

Sustainability is more than just a buzzword—it’s a necessary commitment for businesses today. Nutanix’s solutions prioritize streamlined IT operations that lower the need for physical infrastructure, reducing resource waste and contributing to environmental sustainability.

The Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) exemplifies a hyperconverged infrastructure platform that aids in cutting down resource use, energy needs, and waste, all of which support sustainable IT practices. Customers have reported a substantial reduction in physical IT infrastructure, leading to decreased power consumption and cooling demands. One instance of a 70% power overhead reduction even translated into immense savings and a considerable decline in CO2 emissions yearly.

By enabling IT organizations to consolidate resources efficiently and manage cloud services judiciously, Nutanix supports power conservation and cost savings. And with capabilities for optimal workload distribution designed to decrease digital carbon footprints, Nutanix is facilitating eco-friendly decisions across a variety of cloud settings. With Nutanix, IT strategies are not just sustainable—they’re also beneficial for the bottom line.

Optimizing Application Delivery in a Hybrid Multicloud Environment

In a hybrid multicloud environment, application delivery can be a complex puzzle. But with Nutanix’s solutions, it becomes a walk in the park. Nutanix accelerates workload deployment across different infrastructures, such as public clouds like AWS and Azure, enabling rapid delivery without the need for application refactoring.

The impact of these solutions is visible in the success of organizations like Forever New, a global fashion retailer, which successfully accelerated its hybrid multicloud strategy and delivered enhanced performance for a customer-centric experience with Nutanix. Nutanix’s array of services also address key concerns for application movement, with security and innovation emerging as top drivers. With Nutanix, application delivery is not just optimized—it’s revolutionized.

Seamless App Mobility and Integration

In the world of hybrid multicloud, app mobility and integration are as essential as wings to a bird. Nutanix’s platform allows for the building of applications with the agility to be deployed across various environments, aligning with an organization’s flexible infrastructure needs.

Applications can also be ported to different environments easily, skipping elaborate rework like refactoring and re-architecting, thus streamlining the migration process. Nutanix also supports shifting workloads closer to the point of use, be it on-premises or various cloud deployments, enhancing accessibility and performance.

It also contributes to the modernization of applications by ensuring better network connectivity, effectively reducing latency issues between enterprise and cloud-native applications. With Nutanix, app mobility and integration are not just possible—they’re seamless.

Managing Resources Across the Edge and Cloud

Managing resources across the edge and cloud can be a juggling act. But Nutanix is here to lend a hand. Edge servers, located near the data source, offload only essential data to the cloud, reducing latency. Resource contention, more prominent in edge servers due to their limited hardware resources compared to cloud servers, can be mitigated by migrating Virtual Machines (VMs) that cause resource contention to underloaded edge servers, balancing the load.

Predictive techniques are used to forecast CPU utilization, facilitating early migration of VMs and maintaining Quality of Service (QoS). With Nutanix, managing resources across the edge and cloud becomes a manageable task, not a juggling act.

Fostering an Ecosystem for Modern Apps

In the app-driven world, fostering an ecosystem for modern apps is critical. Nutanix propels organizations forward by enabling organizations to adopt cloud-native containerized applications, fostering agility and maintaining a competitive edge in the market.

Through the Nutanix Central marketplace, organizations can easily access and deploy offerings from the Nutanix portfolio, third-party tools, and bespoke applications. With Nutanix, fostering an ecosystem for modern apps is not just a goal—it’s a reality.

Real-World Success Stories: Nutanix in Action

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and Nutanix’s real-world success stories are indeed a testament to its effectiveness. From facilitating data-driven learning and research at the University of Canberra to enhancing support for educators at Mountain View Los Altos High School District, Nutanix’s solutions have transformed IT operations across sectors and regions. To learn more about these success stories, visit Nutanix.

The University of York, for instance, successfully modernized its IT operations by transitioning from legacy systems to Nutanix HCI. Ashur International Bank advanced the digital banking revolution in Iraq with the help of Nutanix technology. And Organic Valley relied on Nutanix to maintain seamless food production operations as a leading organic consumer brand. These are just a few of the many success stories that highlight the power of Nutanix in action.

Summary

In a world driven by applications, Nutanix stands as a beacon of modern infrastructure solutions. Its hyperconverged infrastructure, cloud platform, and innovative features empower enterprises to streamline operations, enhance performance, achieve cost-effective scalability, and foster an ecosystem for modern apps. With its focus on security and sustainability, Nutanix is not just shaping the future of IT—it’s shaping a future that is secure and sustainable for all. The success stories of organizations around the world further attest to the transformative power of Nutanix. Isn’t it time your organization embraced this powerhouse of possibilities?

Frequently Asked Questions

What is nutanix infrastructure?

Nutanix infrastructure refers to their Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), which integrates computing, storage, and networking resources into a unified system, offering a comprehensive solution for data center needs.

How does Nutanix's Cloud Platform help businesses?

Nutanix's Cloud Platform helps businesses by integrating components for application management across various environments, enhancing security, and streamlining operations. This creates a cohesive environment for managing public cloud, on-premise data centers, and edge computing scenarios.

What innovative features does Nutanix offer?

Nutanix is constantly evolving its Cloud Platform to introduce innovative features that aim to improve security and performance for applications and data, addressing the increasing demands for powerful and secure application performance in enterprise settings.

How does Nutanix simplify the management of complex workloads?

Nutanix simplifies the management of complex workloads by offering a single interface for infrastructure and virtualization management, alongside real-time capacity increases and optimized application performance. Additionally, strategic partnerships with companies like Wipro FullStride Cloud and NVIDIA further enhance this capability.

What are some real-world success stories of Nutanix?

Several organizations, including the University of Canberra and Ashur International Bank, have realized significant benefits and transformed their IT operations by adopting Nutanix's modern infrastructure solutions.