Better Cloud with Nutanix and HPE

Today, almost everything online is conducted and saved through the cloud. Government agencies face the obstacle of modernizing their software infrastructure and navigating cloud-based solutions to achieve mandates. That’s why Nutanix, an American cloud computing company that unites public cloud simplicity and agility with private cloud performance and security, has taken up the mission to radically simplify and secure how organizations across all industries and sectors run apps and manage data. With its recent partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Nutanix aims to create and provide its own private cloud platform that unifies storage, provides database and desktop services, provides hybrid cloud infrastructure and offers cloud management with the goal of supporting any application and workload. All these objectives have been optimized into one secure, easy-to-use product—Nutanix Cloud Platform.

Nutanix pioneers the cloud market with an adaptable, endlessly scalable user-interface. With its built-in intelligence system, Nutanix Cloud Platform can manage apps and data to maximize efficiency and performance. Its features are robust and resilient, as it will replicate data in small slices so that the software can efficiently recover from outages and withstand cybersecurity attacks.

HPE and Nutanix’s global partnership brings customers more options. Unlike other cloud spaces, which have predetermined settings, Nutanix Cloud Platform grants users additional flexibility to adapt the cloud to their needs. Users can customize their clouds, apps and technology stacks with rapid time-to-value benefit. The cloud platform has the largest breath of platforms among any cloud, the ability to run ESX AHV and the freedom to scale up or down. Nutanix Cloud Platform includes a hybrid cloud infrastructure, a unified control plane, unified APIs, a secured base, a built-in hypervisor and a built-in lifecycle management.

Nutanix enables every industry to meet its goals. Fourteen different platforms are certified on HPE, giving users the option to choose which solution they use. Over the last 24 months, Nutanix has maintained a 91% Net Promoter Score reflecting its satisfied customer base, considering that the average NPS score is 45%.

As the world’s largest retailer of software, Nutanix must not only be prepared to deliver a beneficial product, but a secure product. Since multiple Federal, military and intelligence agencies use Nutanix, and since the basics of Government standardize around Nutanix, its cybersecurity is an issue of national security. Nutanix provides several vital security features, including:

• Factory security hardening and baseline
• Automated configuration validation and self-healing
• Data-at-rest encryption
• Localized encryption key management built into the system
• Network segmentation and micro segmentation
• Multi-factor authentication, role-based access and security assertion markup language
• Data protection, including snapshotting and multi-site capabilities, synchronized replication and constant availability
• Security on back end that monitors the network and investigates violations to ensure continuous compliance on company scanning tools
• Encryption capabilities built into the software that cluster lockdown to ensure data cannot be accessed by outside actors

In addition, on request of the Government, Nutanix added a Kernel-based Virtual Machine, which makes the software substantially easier to use. The cloud platform’s certified solutions and joint engineering encourages users to acquire and expand vaster capabilities. By automating the process, Nutanix Cloud Platform promotes sustainable life cycle management.

Nutanix’s cloud is always improving. Manufacturers share testing notes to evaluate the most accurate assessment of the product. There is a dedicated support group for Nutanix and HPE customers that can help users with any issues that arise. Through consistent updates and a shift from capacity-based licensing to processor based, these cloud providers ensure the product is user friendly and easy to bundle with other products.

With Nutanix and HPE’s partnership, the cloud has been revitalized as a user-friendly, unified platform to keep industries secure, as well as to provide a streamlined platform for all workloads and data. With Nutanix Cloud Platform, customers can minimize cost, performance and risk all with one product.