Nutanix expands hybrid-cloud options to help unstructured information

Nutanix has expanded the capabilities of its Objects and Recordsdata unstructured-data storage choices with new hybrid-cloud capabilities for deploying a scale-out storage cloth throughout their numerous cloud environments.

These new storage companies are constructed on the just lately launched Nutanix Clusters, which help Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software program working in AWS and, finally, Microsoft Azure. New options embody cloud tiering for object storage, hybrid-cloud file storage, and simplified catastrophe restoration.

“IT groups around the globe are shortly shifting to hybrid environments, they usually’re in search of expertise options to assist them facilitate this transition, to assist them handle disparate applied sciences and simplify operations,” says Rajiv Mirani, chief expertise officer of Nutanix in a press release. “We just lately prolonged our hyper-converged-infrastructure software program to public cloud with the launch of Nutanix Clusters to assist firms do exactly that. Now the main focus is on strengthening the general platform, together with delivering an easy-to-use, scale out storage cloth throughout their completely different cloud environments.”

Nutanix’s new unstructured information storage choices break down as follows:

Nutanix Objects

This characteristic supplies cloud tiering for objects storage. It means an IT workforce can tier object information to an S3-compatible object retailer, together with cloud storage similar to AWS S3. This helps allow prospects to decrease the price of long-term storage and archiving by benefiting from public-cloud infrastructure. It additionally improves information lifecycle administration throughout completely different clouds whereas metadata is retained on-premises for simpler search and retrieval.

Nutanix Recordsdata

Hybrid-cloud file storage—Nutanix Recordsdata—can run in public clouds in addition to non-public, with a unified hybrid expertise throughout a number of cloud deployment modes by means of a single-pane administration console. This supplies the flexibleness to decide on the best cloud, provide simple scalability, and ship extra management over hybrid-cloud file storage.

Nutanix Objects and Recordsdata

Nutanix has improved its restoration level goal (RPO) from an hour to a minute to make sure information is available throughout information facilities and clouds within the occasion of catastrophe. Objects now present streaming replication, permitting enterprises to containerize their mission-critical stateful purposes and guarantee enterprise continuity, in keeping with Nutanix.