Nutanix Files and Objects Gets New Capabilities

Today Nutanix announced new hybrid cloud capabilities for its unstructured data storage offerings, Nutanix Objects and Files. These storage-focused enhancements are said to enable customers to deploy an easy-to-use, scale out storage fabric across their different cloud environments to simplify data management and effectively manage costs. The new features span from Edge, to private and public clouds, bringing what Nutanix is calling a true hybrid cloud operating model.

Today Nutanix announced new hybrid cloud capabilities for its unstructured data storage offerings, Nutanix Objects and Files. These storage-focused enhancements are said to enable customers to deploy an easy-to-use, scale out storage fabric across their different cloud environments to simplify data management and effectively manage costs. The new features span from Edge, to private and public clouds, bringing what Nutanix is calling a true hybrid cloud operating model.

Recently, the company launch Nutanix Clusters. Nutanix Clusters supports the company’s HCI software running on AWS (with a release for Azure set at some point in the future). Running on any and every cloud is the long-term goal of Nutanix. As more and more organizations adopt a hybrid and multi-cloud approach, they need options in deploying their HCI. Building off of Nutanix Clusters is today’s enhancements to Nutanix Files and Objects.

New benefits include:

• Cloud Tiering for Objects Storage: Nutanix Objects can now deliver tiering of object data to an S3-compatible object store, including cloud storage such as AWS S3. This helps enable customers to lower the cost of long-term storage and archival by taking advantage of public cloud infrastructure. This new intelligent tiering capability will also significantly improve data lifecycle management across different clouds, while still maintaining visibility and control, as metadata is Customers can use any S3-compatible target as a tier to Nutanix Objects.retained on-premises for easier search and retrieval.
• Hybrid Cloud File Storage: Nutanix Files is now generally available to run in public clouds through Nutanix Clusters. A true hybrid cloud file storage solution, Nutanix Files now delivers a unified experience, along with simplified single-pane management, across cloud deployment modes, spanning the edge, remote offices, and core data centers, and public cloud. This provides customers with the flexibility to choose the right cloud, offer easy scalability, and deliver more control over hybrid cloud file storage.
• Simplified Disaster Recovery: Nutanix Objects and Files now deliver improved recovery point objective (RPO) ensuring data is always available across datacenters and clouds in the event of a disaster. Objects now provide streaming replication, with an RPO of just a few seconds, particularly helpful for containerized workloads that can use S3 endpoints for primary storage. This allows enterprises to containerize their mission-critical stateful applications, and ensure business continuity even in the most strenuous of circumstances. Additionally, Nutanix Files now provides support for RPO of up to one minute, compared to one hour previously, which is particularly useful when running enterprise applications using NFS & SMB endpoints.

Availability

The new features of Nutanix Files and Objects is available now.

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