Nutanix and HPE cuddle up closer

Nutanix and HPE widened their partnership to accelerate hybrid cloud and multi-cloud adoption by offering Nutanix Era, multi-database operations and management solution, bundled with HPE ProLiant servers, as a service through HPE GreenLake.

The cloud service lets customers to deploy applications and databases quickly and benefit from the agile, elastic, and pay-per-use capabilities of the cloud while gaining the governance, visibility and compliance of an on-premises environment.

HPE GreenLake Cloud Services, senior vice president and general manager Keith White, said that customers want to simplify database operations and management to move away from IT siloes that can often lead to higher maintenance costs, security risks, and lack of flexibility to deploy and run solutions.

“By building on our successful collaboration with Nutanix, together the HPE GreenLake and the Nutanix Era database operations and management software solution will increase agility, simplify operations and cut costs by delivering a fully managed cloud offering.”

He claimed customers using Nutanix Era reported a positive experience in increasing speed of database provisioning by 97 percent, reducing unplanned downtime to avoid average losses of $35,000 per hour, decreasing storage requirements for copies and backups by 60 percent, and reducing database administrators’ overtime work by 50 percent.

By combining Nutanix Era on HPE ProLiant servers as a cloud service through HPE GreenLake, customers can transform database management with one cloud-ready platform, it’s claimed.

The solutions will allow customers to modernise, consolidate, and automate tasks across their databases and gain support for multi-database operations management, including Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgresSQL, and MariaDB.

Tarkan Maner, Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix ,said: “As customers are looking for solutions to help them in their journey to hybrid and multicloud, HPE and Nutanix deliver strong, integrated solutions to support them on their journey by providing performance, control, and security available as a full breadth of portfolio whether it’s solely using HPE ProLiant DX series of servers for private clouds or combining with HPE GreenLake cloud services to run this environment as a managed cloud.”