Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 58 | Page 65

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure now available on AWS Enterprise cloud solutions vendor Nutanix, has announced the general availability of Nutanix Clusters on AWS, extending the flexibility and ease of use of the company’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software. With the announcement, Nutanix is delivering hybrid cloud infrastructure that allows businesses to accelerate their digital initiatives and optimise spending priorities. In addition, Nutanix offers a single stack that integrates compute and storage, providing unified operations across private and public clouds, integrated networking with AWS and license portability from private to public clouds, thus addressing key technical and operational challenges of the hybrid cloud era. According to Gartner, by 2021, 90% of organisations will have deployed a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud model for their IT needs. Companies require the flexibility of multiple clouds while they continue to struggle with the complexity, operational silos and costs of managing private and public clouds. “We are excited to support an extension of a customer’s private cloud environment into AWS with the launch of Clusters on AWS. This provides customers the flexibility to get the most out of both their AWS and Nutanix environments,” said Doug Yeum, Head, Worldwide Channels and Alliances at Amazon Web Services Inc. “Customers now have an opportunity to take advantage of Nutanix Clusters on AWS to deploy adjacent to their cloud-native applications in AWS and fast track their Digital Transformation.” A unified solution that provides a consistent experience, tooling and operational practices across clouds will allow companies to break down silos and reduce inefficiencies while enabling the advantage of flexibility to choose the right cloud for each workload. With the deal, Nutanix is extending the simplicity and ease of use of its software to public cloud. This eliminates the cost and management complexity of hybrid environments and enables seamless mobility across private and public clouds without any rearchitecting of the apps due to built-in networking integration with AWS. “On behalf of our customers, we have always worked to make IT so simple that it’s invisible,” said Tarkan Maner, Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix. “As the industry evolved, our focus has expanded Tarkan Maner, Chief Commercial Officer, Nutanix THIS IS THE TRUE VISION OF HYBRID CLOUD. beyond the data centre to help our customers manage the complexity of multiple clouds, whether private or public. Nutanix Clusters on AWS is the realisation of this vision. This enables complete flexibility by allowing businesses to write code once and use it anywhere, taking advantage of scale, location, integration and pricing of multiple options – this is the true vision of hybrid cloud.” • www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 65