Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 39 | Page 51

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// FEATURE: CLOUD Using cloud to power businesses With the growth of cloud in the Middle East being a undoubted factor in the region’s drive towards Digital Transformation, Intelligent CIO speaks to Paulo Pereira. Director, Systems Engineering, Nutanix, to find out more about cloud solutions for enterprises. N utanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, offers enterprises Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software that makes datacentre infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The solution 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. Aaron White, regional director Middle East at Nutanix, said: “The enterprise datacentre is evolving from legacy hardware intensive systems to software defined infrastructure that runs on commodity servers powered by a cloud OS. “It’s about taking IT to the next level by combining the agility and consumer grade simplicity of the public cloud with the control, security, and predictable economics of a private cloud. And that’s exactly what our market leading Enterprise Cloud OS platform delivers. With our company’s promise of the ‘invisible infrastructure’ (just works, without constraints, while eliminating guesswork), we intend to help regional www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 51