Nutanix had a great conference in Las Vegas this week. Over 2300 attendees. I have been watching this company over the last couple of years and it is great to see how they are growing and how their user/ potentiality user base is growing.
They have been targeting the hyper-converged cloud space with a focus on Software Defined Storage. They have had success in this space driving Server Based Storage as a replacement to traditional SAN devices. However, they have upped their game. They have a complete SDI solution including Orchestration, Software Defined Compute, Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Network and a self-service portal.
They have been targeting the hyper-converged cloud space with a focus on Software Defined Storage. They have had success in this space driving Server Based Storage as a replacement to traditional SAN devices. However, they have upped their game. They have a complete SDI solution including Orchestration, Software Defined Compute, Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Network and a self-service portal.
New Technologies
Here is a list of new technologies they have developed:
- Analytics tools that administrators can use for capacity planning, what-if scenarios, and root cause trouble shooting.
- Increased the functionality of their Acropolis Hypervisor so that it behaves more like a hybrid hypervisor, talking to multiple heterogeneous hypervisors at the same time.
- Migration tool for VMs to Containers. App-aware migration. So it is actually dissecting your VM for the applications running on it and then creating a docker container that matches. Very cool technology.
- Extended functionality of their Data Fabric technology to include traditional storage for Brown field and green field integration.
- Acropolis is supporting scheduling containers just like they have done with VMs. They are making data and compute optimized
- Nutanix is moving up the stack. They are talking more about application and services provisioning on infrastructure, than just infrastructure.
- Community Edition Nutanix was shown on Intel's Skull Canyon NUC. This is targeted to the developers of apps on top of Nutanix. They are building a development community around their software.
Impressions
Overall Nutanix looks like it has great momentum. This conference had 3 times more people than last year. It was not just developers at this conference. There was a good mix of developers, practitioners, and decision makers. From this conference it looks like Nutanix is here to stay.
DWP
