#XiCloudServices brings #hyperconverged vendor #Nutanix into the #publiccloud game as it seeks to tie on-premises data to the cloud with help of #Calmorchestration software.
OXON HILL, Maryland -- Nutanix laid out the next phase of its cloud vision at Nutanix .NEXT 2017, introducing a set of public cloud services the hyper-converged vendor will host beginning in 2018.
Nutanix's strategy is to build its market leading hyper-convergence technology into an enterprise cloud platform. At .NEXT 2017 Wednesday night, Nutanix previewed its Nutanix Xi Cloud Services and Calm cloud orchestration software.
Nutanix will manage Xi Cloud Services on its public cloud, beginning with a disaster recovery service in early 2018. The Nutanix Xi DR Service ties into the Nutanix Prism management interface, which lets customers set up protection for applications and data on whatever hardware they use with Prism, and on popular public clouds. The Nutanix hyper-converged software stack can run on its branded appliances or servers from Dell EMC, Lenovo, IBM, Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Nutanix also supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform public clouds.
Nutanix executives say they will enable hybrid cloud services by tying on-premises data to a public cloud.
"How we meld the Xi Cloud Services with on-prem is basically beginning the journey of hybrid cloud services," Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey said during the .NEXT opening keynote.
#NutanixCalm is another piece of its multi-cloud strategy.
Calm, which comes from #Nutanix 's acquisition of #Calmio a year ago, is an orchestration tool built into #Prism. It captures an application in a blueprint with all of the app's #containers, virtual machines, binaries and run book orchestration. The blueprint can be provisioned, managed and scaled in #AWS or on Nutanix appliances on-premises with support planned for #Azure and #GoogleCloudPlatform soon after the initial release. Calm is scheduled for availability near the end of 2017.
"We think the hybrid cloud needs a reboot; a fresh approach," said Greg Smith, Nutanix senior director of technical marketing. "One challenge of the hybrid cloud is that the different public and private clouds are built with different technology stacks, different tools and different management constructs. You wind up with separate IT silos. The public cloud does not meld with the private cloud."
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