Nutanix Cloud Platform aims to deliver a more consistent cloud operating model for enterprises

Data center infrastructure firm Nutanix Inc. said today it’s making a simplified version of its product portfolio available with the launch of Nutanix Cloud Platform into global general availability.

Nutanix is best known for its software-defined hyperconverged infrastructure or HCI stack that integrates compute, storage and networking components into a single appliance or cloud service. Amid rising demand for cloud-based data storage and compute, Nutanix has come to realize that organizations have different ideas about how to implement their cloud operations.

Hence the company’s emphasis today on “hybrid multicloud” computing with a new product that delivers a consistent operating model across all three types of computing today – public, private and hybrid.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform is built around Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, the company’s HCI stack that provides virtual compute, storage and networking for virtual machines, containers and other workloads. NCI can be deployed in any location, including a private data center on a customer’s hardware of choice or a public cloud platform, and offers built-in resilience, self-healing, disaster recovery and security, combined with high performance.

Other components of the platform include Nutanix Cloud Manager, which is used to enable consistent governance across both public and private clouds, and Nutanix Unified Storage, which provides distributed, software-defined volume, file and object storage to support workloads that run in any location.

There’s also the Nutanix Database Service that helps to simplify database management across hybrid and multicloud environments and is compatible with Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and others. Finally, the Nutanix Cloud Platform encompasses Nutanix End User Computing Solutions, which provides virtual apps and desktops from which users can manage their hybrid cloud infrastructure from any location.

The key to Nutanix Cloud Platform is, above all else, its simplicity, which is necessary to deliver a true hybrid cloud experience. Nutanix Chief Technology Officer Rajiv Mirani told SiliconANGLE’s video studio theCUBE in a September interview the majority of Nutanix’s customers are looking for a “common experience” no matter where they’re located or where their workloads are running.

“When we talk to our customers, pretty much all of them agreed that for them, the ideal state that they want to be in is a hybrid world,” Mirani said. “They want to essentially be able to run both of those both on the private data center and the public cloud and have a common platform, common experience, common, skillset and the same people managing workloads across both locations.”

Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers that with a consistent yet fluid experience layered across customers’ private and public cloud operations. It also removes a lot of the complexity associated with enabling hybrid cloud services across multiple environments by simplifying packaging, metering and pricing, helping customers to plan for things such as workload expansions and technology refreshes more easily, Nutanix said.

Analyst Steve McDowell of Moor Insights & Strategy told SiliconANGLE the new release was a nice realignment of Nutanix’s overall portfolio because organizations are embracing multiple deployment models that blend cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

“While Nutanix has long had a compelling set of offerings to help these customers, the truth is that the number of solutions Nutanix offered could be overwhelming,” he said. “IT administrators don’t like complexity. Nutanix’s move to simplify both its offerings and its pricing will definitely help keep it simple for IT administrators. It will also make it easy for Nutanix to talk about it own value proposition to those customers.”

Hear more from Mirani, who discusses Nutanix’s hybrid cloud vision in the full interview:

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