Nutanix launched a new suite of offerings designed to create a more unified fabric across different cloud environments, so IT teams can run applications on the optimal platform, and are not restricted by technology.
Dubbed Xi Cloud Services is comprised of five distinct offerings at launch, including Xi Leap, a native extension of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform providing disaster recovery as a service.
Nutanix’s recent Enterprise Cloud Index has shown enterprise workloads running in both private and public clouds are expected to jump nearly 20 percent in the next two years. Through Xi Cloud Services, Nutanix claims it makes it easier for companies to integrate cloud services into their multi-cloud deployments, whether by natively extending their Nutanix environment beyond the boundaries of a traditional data centre or by finally gaining the visibility and insight into their infrastructure deployments across platforms to monitor costs and ensure compliance.
Offered as part of Nutanix Enterprise, customers can take advantage of five services:
- Xi Leap – Cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) services to protect critical business applications and data. Leap services are enabled directly in Nutanix Prism for a wholly integrated public and private cloud experience.
- Xi Frame – unique desktop-as-a-service platform built from scratch specifically for cloud deployment, now integrating role-based access control.
- Xi Beam – a multi-cloud cost optimisation and governance tool that allows customers to reduce cost and enhance cloud security across platforms, public and private.
- Xi Epoch – an observability and monitoring solution for multi-cloud applications that provides a Google Maps-like view of applications to determine performance bottlenecks and availability issues in any cloud environment.
- Xi IoT – an intelligent edge computing platform that performs real-time processing of sensor and device data pipelines, and moves intelligently filtered data back to a customer’s cloud platform of choice for long-term decision-making, allowing them to eliminate the complexity of deploying and managing edge locations while deriving more value from data at the edge.
Dheeraj Pandey, CEO, Nutanix said: “As we move into the multi-cloud world, a fundamental challenge for all businesses is running IT applications seamlessly across platforms. It has been our mission since we were founded to make infrastructure invisible to our customers so they can focus on their applications, not where the applications reside. Xi Cloud Services is the next evolution in that journey as we help our customers achieve invisible, together.”
Nutanix Xi Cloud Services are available now. Nutanix Leap is available to customers today in East and West availability zones in the United States. Additional availability zones are expected to be available in the UK in calendar Q1 2019.
