INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Nutanix Xi IoT brings intelligence
to the edge as IoT puts pressure
on data centres
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With the ever-increasing
amount of data, data
centres are struggling to
cope with demand.
With a move to edge
computing Nutanix has
launched a new service as
part of the company’s Xi
Cloud Services.
N
utanix, a leader in enterprise cloud
computing, has announced the
general availability of Xi IoT, a new
edge computing service offered as part of
the company’s Xi Cloud Services.
Combining the simplified elegance of
core Nutanix solutions with a streamlined
approach, Xi IoT eliminates complexity,
accelerates the speed of deployment and
elevates developers to focus on the business
logic powering IoT applications and services.
In 2017, 3 billion enterprise IoT edge devices
generated up to 30 times more data (256
ZB) than the 30 million plus nodes across
public and private cloud data centres. But
the current IoT model in which the massive
amounts of data on edge devices is sent
back to a centralised cloud for processing
has severely limited the ability of customers
to make real-time, actionable decisions from
intelligence gained at the edge.
inference, and data services to perform
real-time processing at the edge. Xi IoT Data
Pipelines can securely move intelligently
analysed data to a customer’s public (Azure,
AWS or GCP) or private cloud platform of
choice for long-term analysis.
Edge and core cloud deployments
all operate on the same data and
management plane, so Xi IoT customers
have seamless, simplified insight into their
deployment. Because Xi IoT provides zero-
touch setup and management of edge
devices, organisations can eliminate the
risk of IoT security breaches due to human
error, increase overall efficiency and reduce
the cost of operating edge devices across
the globe.
Through Xi IoT, customers can manage all
their edge locations through a sophisticated
infrastructure and application lifecycle
management tool, regardless of platform.
Developers can leverage a rich set of popular
open APIs to deploy next-generation data
science applications as containerised
applications or as functions, which are small
snippets of code.
This can be integrated into existing CI/CD
pipelines, allowing them to make changes
quickly from a single location. By leveraging
this well-known framework, Xi IoT helps IT
organisations reduce training, development
and testing costs while eliminating the
possibility an organisation is locked in to one
public cloud provider.
And because data is processed in real-time
at the edge, companies are no longer
inhibited by the transmission of data back
to a core data centre for processing, so
decisions can be made based on data
autonomously and in real-time.
“It is critical for enterprise organisations
to have an edge strategy to unify, edge
to cloud connectivity, to rapidly build
IoT applications, and to provide real-
time analytics closer to where the data is
generated,” said, Ashish Nadkarni, Group
Vice President, Infrastructure Systems,
Platforms and Technologies, IDC.
Nutanix Xi IoT will focus on the
manufacturing, retail, oil and gas, healthcare
and Smart Cities markets at launch. n
For customers, deriving value from this
massive amount of data is rife with latency
issues, lack of scalability, lack of autonomy,
and compliance and privacy issues.
Unlike traditional IoT models, the Xi IoT
platform delivers local compute, machine
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