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Nutanix, a pioneer in hybrid multicloud computing, announced it has been named as a pioneer in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, 2024, which Gartner describes as “offerings that deliver cloud-native attributes, which can be deployed and operated where the customer prefers." "Distributed hybrid infrastructure provides the foundation for the deployment of applications in a distributed manner that retains a cloud or cloud-inspired approach. In doing so, it improves agility and flexibility for the workloads outside of public cloud infrastructure.”  Hybrid multicloud platform Nutanix believes this award is due to the group's vision and assets in the integration of edge Nutanix believes this recognition is due to the company’s vision and investments in the integration of edge, private and public clouds, as well as having a platform that supports both cloud native and traditional applications. All this while providing unified management to help customers simplify their operations and use a hybrid multicloud platform to run applications anywhere and realise business outcomes faster. Hybrid multicloud vision “We are pleased to see this outcome and view it as validation of our hybrid multicloud vision and execution,” said Lee Caswell, SVP, Product and Solutions Marketing at Nutanix. “We are committed to the innovation, execution and support that free customers to build, manage and run secure applications and manage their associated data, including cloud-native Gen AI apps, anywhere.” New Generative AI models Nutanix provides a secure, resilient, and self-healing forum for running apps and managing data Nutanix provides a secure, resilient and self-healing platform for running applications and managing data at scale across edge, public and private cloud environments. The single solution simplifies the management of distributed hybrid infrastructure with consistent data services across a choice of Kubernetes® environments for applications of all kinds, including new Generative AI models. Nutanix also continues focusing on innovation to support customers now and in the future. Recent announcements include: joint solutions with Dell Technologies to give customer choice for traditional and modern workloads; the GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 AI solution, including integrations with NVIDIA and Hugging Face, to accelerate enterprise AI adoption; Nutanix Kubernetes Platform solution to simplify management and operations of Kubernetes clusters; and new functionality in the Nutanix AHV hypervisor to drive enterprise modernisation, and more. Nutanix customers shared "We selected Nutanix to help us modernise our IT infrastructure from our VMware legacy environment which no longer supported our growing needs.” Paul Straton, Infrastructure and Security Manager, Day Lewis. “We explored other solutions following the acquisition of VMware and after evaluating key criteria, decided Nutanix was the best option.” Asad Rehman, IT Director, Regent’s University London. “Transitioning to Nutanix from VMware simplifies our operations with a unified hybrid multicloud platform.” Jeff Mack, Manager, Network/Server Administration, Titan America. "The migration to Nutanix was one of the fastest and smoothest transitions we’ve ever experienced.” Andrew Phan, CIO, Treasure Island Hotel and Casino.

Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security™ Company announces its Rubrik Cyber Recovery capabilities are available for Nutanix AHV, a modern and secure virtualisation platform that powers both virtual machines (VMs) and containers on-premises and in public clouds. With Rubrik Cyber Recovery, Nutanix AHV users can confidently test and validate their recovery plans in clean rooms and expedite their forensic investigations, helping to provide cyber resilience following a cyberattack. Nutanix platform According to the most recent Rubrik Zero Labs report, 83% of all organisations’ encrypted data observed by Rubrik is within a virtualised architecture, such as Nutanix. While the Nutanix platform is inherently secure with native features such as automated threat and anomaly detection, role-based access control, lifecycle management, and micro-segmentation - a “defence in depth” strategy with multiple layers of security provides holistic protection. Rubrik Cyber Recovery addresses this need by enabling administrators to plan, test, and validate cyber recovery plans regularly and recover quickly in the event of a cyberattack. Secure and intelligent virtualisation solutions “As both the hypervisor and cybersecurity markets continue to rapidly evolve, organisations are seeking the most secure and intelligent virtualisation solutions to store their critical business data and mitigate risk in the face of cyberattacks and unexpected downtime,” said Lee Caswell, senior vice president of product and solutions marketing at Nutanix. “As a distributed system designed for the hybrid cloud, Nutanix AHV is engineered for unrivaled ease of use with fully integrated security. Rubrik Cyber Recovery provides that extra layer of cyber preparedness, and together, we help organisations take on their most complex enterprise IT challenges.” Key benefits of Rubrik Cyber Recovery for Nutanix AHV Test cyber recovery readiness in a clean room: Create pre-defined recovery plans and automate recovery validation and testing, ensuring recovery takes place in the desired order, contains necessary dependencies and prerequisites, and performs desired network changes. Orchestrate rapid recovery to production: Easily identify clean point-in-time snapshots using Rubrik data threat analytics, drastically reducing the time required to restore business operations. Expedite forensic investigations: Get visibility into suspicious activity using Rubrik data threat analytics, drastically reducing the time required to identify the best recovery point for forensics, and leverage out-of-band management to rapidly instantiate data and systems into clean rooms with ease.  Cyber recovery “Identifying the right snapshot for cyber recovery has historically been a cumbersome and manual process. As a result, cyber recovery testing is rarely done, if at all which can lead to a world of stress during a cyberattack,” said Anneka Gupta, chief product officer at Rubrik. “Rubrik Cyber Recovery removes the headache by providing threat analytics that pinpoint suitable recovery points and clones the data to a secure, isolated environment. By extending this capability to Nutanix AHV users, Rubrik delivers even more protection to data in virtualised environments to help organisations quickly restore their critical business operations.”

Nutanix, a provider in hybrid multicloud computing, announced the Nutanix Carbon and Power Estimator, a new tool to help organisations understand how different factors can influence their environmental footprint by estimating annual power and emissions for various Nutanix solutions using Nutanix Validated Designs. Nutanix software and solutions can help organisations meet power and carbon goals by optimising IT infrastructure through reduced footprint, on-demand resource scaling, and fast and easy workload movement between on-prem and cloud options. Reduces environmental impact According to the 5th Annual Enterprise Cloud Index, for 92% of IT decision-makers sustainability is more important than it was a year ago — a development driven by an increasing number of pending and imposed regulations globally that add to the heightened interest in this space. As sustainability comes into view for many enterprises, they seek strategies to reduce their environmental impact. One of the first facets of the business that providers evaluate when looking to minimise environmental impact is IT, where changes in equipment or practices have the potential to make significant impacts when it comes to energy consumption and emissions. IT strategies Nutanix Carbon and Power Estimator can help enterprises take initiative by educating organisations" The Nutanix Carbon and Power Estimator provides users with a report that helps illustrate how infrastructure choices can impact an environmental footprint with regard to power and emissions, with insights for developing more sustainable IT strategies. Based on user inputs regarding workloads, the efficiency of the data centre, and location, an organisation can conceptualise how IT choices can help them meet their sustainability goals. “Understanding what drives carbon and power consumption is an important first step for many enterprises looking to advance on their sustainability journey,” said Sammy Zoghlami, SVP EMEA at Nutanix. “The Nutanix Carbon and Power Estimator can help enterprises take initiative by educating organisations on factors that can influence their environmental impact.” Low-carbon energy sources The Nutanix Carbon and Power Estimator enables organisations to:  Estimate the effects of different factors on power and emissions for Nutanix solutions. As an example, with the Nutanix Carbon and Power Estimator, a user could see that if an organisation deploys Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for a general virtualisation use case with 300 virtual machines (VMs) in a U.K. data centre with a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 2.0, it would generate an estimated 68 metric tons of carbon dioxide (MTCO2) annually. If, on the other hand, the organisation was able to find a way to bring the data centre’s PUE down to 1.5, this change would reduce the emissions estimate by 17 MTCO2 to 51 MTCO2. Account for geography, which can also play a major factor in sustainability. The Nutanix Carbon and Power Estimator demonstrates the impact of moving workloads to geographies that leverage low-carbon sources for energy generation compared to fossil fuels, which have a higher carbon intensity. For example, if the same general virtualisation use case described above, with the reduced PUE of 1.5, were moved to a data centre in Sweden, then the estimated carbon emissions would drop from 51 MTCO2 to just two MTCO2. This is because Sweden leverages a relatively high share of low-carbon energy sources to power its grids. The Nutanix Carbon and Power Estimator makes clear that migrating workloads can be a viable part of an organisation's sustainability strategy.  Compare the power consumption of Nutanix’s hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and 3-Tier (SAN-based) infrastructure. After using the Estimator, users can download a report that highlights how eliminating proprietary SAN components can help reduce power consumption. Based on a third-party reviewed methodology, Nutanix HCI demonstrated significant power savings compared to a three-tier solution with the ability to run a similar workload. Sustainability strategies Because every customer configuration is unique, the Nutanix Carbon and Power Estimator provides typical estimates that are generalised to help customers develop sustainability strategies rather than to provide exact usage figures.  Simon Sowerby, Technical Services Coordinator, City of Unley shared: “Our previous three-tier system consisted of about ten racks of compute equipment, and we have been able to reduce that to a quarter rack. Our power expenses have come down about 70%, which is working out to tens of thousands of dollars - and 24,000 kg of CO2 emissions - saved per year.”