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Better Together: How HPE, AMD and Nutanix Empower Modern Enterprises

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The rapid evolution of enterprise technology has made modernization an urgent priority. Businesses today face challenges ranging from complex infrastructure and escalating costs to the rising demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and hybrid cloud environments. Together, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Nutanix provide unified solutions that simplify operations, strengthen security and deliver unmatched performance, empowering organizations to navigate current demands and prepare for the future.


Addressing Market Challenges with Innovation

In a dynamic market where infrastructure complexity and cost pressures are top concerns, the combined expertise of HPE, AMD and Nutanix is driving transformative solutions. Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) simplifies multicloud management, enabling organizations to run workloads across on-premises, public and private clouds or colocation sites. With intuitive tools like Prism, Nutanix delivers flexibility, cost efficiency and robust security.

On the hardware side, AMD’s EPYC Central Processing Units (CPUs) have revolutionized the data center market, achieving a 34% market share through scalability (i.e. higher core count options that help reduce server footprint). Designed for diverse workloads, including analytics and hybrid workforce applications, AMD solutions like the 4th Gen EPYC CPUs provide outstanding performance while optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO).

Meanwhile, HPE’s ProLiant DX Gen 11 servers offer fast deployment, tailored configurations and scalable options for diverse business needs. Supported by OpEx models like GreenLake, HPE ensures financial flexibility, making modernization accessible for organizations of all sizes.


Unlocking the Potential of AI

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AI is reshaping industries, and the HPE, AMD and Nutanix partnership enables enterprises to meet these infrastructure demands. Nutanix’s HCI platform, paired with AMD’s EPYC CPUs, deliver optimized performance for AI and machine learning (ML) workloads. The Nutanix DX 385 model supports up to four double-wide Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), providing accelerated compute for AI-driven environments. With features like network microsegmentation and automated lifecycle management, Nutanix ensures secure, optimized environments for AI applications.

AMD’s EPYC processors are tailored for AI applications, from small-scale enterprise large language models (LLMs) to large-scale generative AI. High core density and features like Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) ensure robust performance and security. HPE complements this with ProLiant DX servers designed for AI workloads, including their “GPU in a Box” model, which simplifies deployment and scales with demand, making it easier for businesses to meet the demands of AI-driven applications. Together, these technologies provide enterprises with the computational power and flexibility to unlock AI’s potential within hybrid cloud environments.


Simplifying Modernization Across Infrastructure

Modernization is no longer optional—it is a necessity for businesses navigating an evolving IT landscape. Businesses face the dual challenge of balancing legacy infrastructure needs with the demands of the future. HPE, AMD and Nutanix simplify this transition by addressing performance, security, management and integration, ensuring organizations modernize effectively while maintaining operational continuity.

Performance

Nutanix software on AMD EPYC-powered HPE ProLiant DX servers handles workloads like virtualization, analytics, big data and AI/ML with exceptional performance. The 4th Gen EPYC CPUs deliver high performance across metrics including per core and per server, reducing infrastructure costs. High-frequency CPU options enable the provisioning of more virtual machines and workloads without increasing physical cores, ensuring businesses can scale seamlessly as demands evolve. HPE delivers two high-performance NVMe storage options, designed to boost data center performance while ensuring reliability and security. HPE NVMe Mixed Use (MU) SSDs use Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Gen4 to boost performance for Big Data, high-performance computing (HPC) and virtualization with fast transfers and low latency. HPE NVMe Read Intensive (RI) SSDs optimize read-heavy workloads like web servers, storage and caching with high-speed PCIe Gen3 and Gen4.

Security

Nutanix integrates features like automatic auditing, encryption and network microsegmentation to ensure compliance and safeguard IT environments. AMD EPYC processors add another layer of protection with SEV, isolating virtual machines with memory encryption for silicon-level protection. HPE’s Silicon Root of Trust protects firmware from the boot process and continuously monitors the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), ensuring server integrity and preventing breaches​.

Management

Managing modern IT environments is simplified with Nutanix’s one-click updates and lifecycle management capabilities, which integrate seamlessly with HPE’s Service Pack for ProLiant. Nutanix Prism offers a unified management plane, enabling centralized control for clusters, applications and data. The intuitive management interface reduces complexity, empowering IT teams to handle hybrid cloud environments with ease and efficiency.

Integration

Pre-installed with Nutanix Acropolis OS (AOS), HPE ProLiant DX servers offer out-of-the-box solutions optimized for AMD EPYC processors. These systems support diverse hypervisors, including Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and third-party options, giving businesses the flexibility to tailor infrastructure setups to specific needs. This collaboration ensures workload-specific performance and seamless integration across various deployment environments, helping businesses modernize without disruption.


HPE, AMD and Nutanix demonstrate the power of collaboration by offering a unified approach to modernization. By combining high performance, robust security, streamlined management and flexible integration, their solutions provide businesses with the tools they need to meet today’s challenges and prepare for tomorrow’s demands. Collectively, they simplify the journey to modernization, proving that they truly are better together.


Discover how HPE, AMD and Nutanix are better together in delivering powerful, secure and scalable solutions for modern enterprises. Watch our webinar, “Modernize Your Infrastructure with HPE & Nutanix – Powered by AMD,” to explore cutting-edge innovations and actionable strategies that transform IT environments.


Carahsoft Technology Corp. is The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider, supporting Public Sector organizations across Federal, State and Local Government agencies and Education and Healthcare markets. As the Master Government Aggregator for our vendor partners, including HPE, AMD and Nutanix, we deliver solutions for Geospatial, Cybersecurity, MultiCloud, DevSecOps, Artificial Intelligence, Customer Experience and Engagement, Open Source and more. Working with resellers, systems integrators and consultants, our sales and marketing teams provide industry leading IT products, services and training through hundreds of contract vehicles. Explore the Carahsoft Blog to learn more about the latest trends in Government technology markets and solutions, as well as Carahsoft’s ecosystem of partner thought-leaders.

Empowering Education: Nutanix and the E-Rate Program

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The U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996 established the E-rate program to ensure affordable access to telecommunications and internet services, particularly for schools and libraries in low-income and rural areas. E-Rate consists of two categories:

  • Category One: This covers data transmission and internet access services, including broadband connectivity and data links connecting multiple points.
  • Category Two: This category focuses on eligible equipment, such as wireless access points, controller systems, routers, switches, and essential software-defined networking (SDN) and firewalls. Nutanix is a recognized provider of Category Two services under E-Rate, enhancing digital learning, IT security, and affordability.

During 2023, the third year of the 5 year E-Rate budget cycle, Nutanix and Carahsoft worked with a handful of customers across the country, and successfully funded and implemented multiple projects through USAC and the E-Rate program.

As we enter the fourth year of the 5 year E-Rate budget cycle, schools and libraries have 2 years left to utilize the E-Rate funds available to them. Schools and Libraries have an opportunity to fast track their digital modernization efforts with E-Rate funding. Let’s delve into the Nutanix E-Rate Solution.

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Nutanix’s Integrated Solution: Nutanix offers an integrated software-defined solution based on hyperconverged infrastructure. This solution streamlines networking, physical security, diagnostics, and firewalling, eliminating the need for separate legacy systems. It can be consolidated onto the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), reducing physical device footprint, costs, and management workload. It also integrates seamlessly with Nutanix and third-party products to create a robust infrastructure stack.

Unified Management: Nutanix provides a single pane management interface for all physical and virtual resources. This simplifies the management of diverse IT environments, allowing educational IT leaders to oversee data services, workload security, uptime, SLAs, virtual networking, and governance from a centralized dashboard.

Security and Compliance: Nutanix’s software incorporates robust security measures, automating compliance and providing self-healing capabilities. NCI centralizes network and security services, ensuring efficient functionality and effective incident response. It offers advanced network security, application-centric protection, and monitoring for security and compliance.

Software-Defined LAN: Nutanix’s software-defined LAN technology extends Layer 2 networks across sites using virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) technology. This enables the delivery of broadband IPv4 services without additional hardware, improving uptime and adaptability.

Accelerate IT Modernization: Nutanix accelerates IT modernization at any stage, and E-Rate qualification allows schools and libraries to save up to 68% on eligible solutions through Category Two funding.

For more information, visit www.nutanix.com/E-Rate or contact Nutanix at NutanixSLED@Carahsoft.com or E-Rate@Nutanix.com to explore how their solutions can meet your specific needs.

View our webinar and dive deeper into how Nutanix can support your institutions education journey through the E-Rate program.

*Information in this blog was updated on November 7, 2023 to reflect more up-to-date, accurate information.

Better Cloud with Nutanix and HPE

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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.

One Unified Cloud

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.

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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%.

Secure with Nutanix

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.

Better Together

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.

View our webinar and dive deeper into the benefits of Nutanix Cloud Platform from Nutanix and HPE’s partnership.

Nutanix and Red Hat Partnership Brings Customers Best-in-Class Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Complete Stack

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Nutanix and Red Hat have partnered to deliver a hybrid cloud experience, offering their industry-leading technologies, such as Nutanix’s Cloud Platform now certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. This partnership provides customers with a complete technology stack for those looking to modernize, build, scale and manage virtual and cloud native applications on-premise and in the public cloud. Red Hat OpenShift is the preferred enterprise full stack Kubernetes Solution on the Nutanix Cloud Platform leveraging the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV), combining the knowledge of the premier provider of open source solutions and the industry leading HCI Cloud Platform. Both current and new customers can take advantage of this partnership to support even their most demanding workloads and challenges.

“We have a vision to enable open hybrid clouds, where customers have choice and flexibility,” Paul Cormier, President and CEO of Red Hat, said. “Our partnership with Nutanix brings a leading hyperconverged offering to the open hybrid cloud, driving greater choice for our joint customers in how they deploy their containerized workloads and backed by a joint support experience.”

Public Sector Challenges

Government agencies are facing several challenges that the Nutanix and Red Hat solution addresses:

Heightened cybersecurity threats and overall security posture: No matter the infrastructure, whether on-premise or in the cloud, agencies need their data to be fully secure. With attacks and cybersecurity risks growing daily, agencies are looking for solutions that provide enhanced protection from the start.

Getting Artificial Intelligence at the edge in a simplistic, deployable format: Today, agencies want easy ways within both AI hardware and software that they can run out hundreds of nodes in the field, and a solution that will make AI and Machine Learning workloads scalable, reliable and durable.

Application and operations modernization efforts: Many agencies are on the road to modernization for their applications and need solutions that can keep up. They would benefit from a single platform on which to apply best practices across the entire universe of applications—from traditional to microservice and containerized applications. Leveraging this partnership and the combined development and engineering efforts can streamline that modernization process.

The Nutanix and Red Hat partnership not only enables its customers to overcome these challenges through their collaborative solutions, but gives them the tools to manage interoperability, maintain flexibility and scalability, and ultimately support their customer’s goals.

Support Through the Cloud Journey

Perhaps the most imperative element of this alliance is that it will not simply step in for a few tests and software deployment, but instead, become an integrated solution and resource for long-term assistance to ensure value for its customers. Focusing on co-development and selling in the field, this partnership supports efforts to drive the innovation and richness of a full stack offering and open source landscape with storage, automation and database capabilities through platforms like OpenShift, Ansible, and Nutanix Era.

Several key foundational operations of the alliance include:

  • Red Hat OpenShift as the preferred choice for enterprise full stack Kubernetes on the Nutanix Cloud Platform
  • Nutanix Cloud Platform as the preferred choice for HCI for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift
  • Nutanix AHV is now a Red Hat certified hypervisor enabling full support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift on the Nutanix Cloud Platform
  • Joint engineering roadmap providing robust and unique interoperability
  • More seamless support experience providing faster resolution times for joint customers

With this partnership, customers can take advantage of an unparalleled infrastructure and subscription service. With no major upgrade costs or perpetual licensing, users receive all new releases of technology and can upgrade once ready to make the transition. Moreover, all deployment options can be leveraged via the same subscription licensing, and integrated automation through this partnership makes this operation even simpler. By utilizing Red Hat Ansible, OpenShift and Kubernetes Operators on the Nutanix Cloud Platform, DevOps Teams can implement declarative infrastructure as code, allowing for streamlined deployment, and an extended reach from on-prem datacenters to the public cloud.

From the beginning, Nutanix and Red Hat have not only been collaborating to maximize their partnership, but also are constantly considering what could be the next best move. Now nearly nine months into this alliance, these vendors are moving past major foundational efforts and are filling in the gaps of automation and orchestration to make their partnership even more accessible and flexible for their customers.

Contact us today to learn more about our new hybrid cloud partnership with Red Hat!

The Rise of Edge Computing

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The proliferation of internet-of-things (IoT) sensors and an increasingly mobile workforce were dispersing government IT operations farther from the data center long before the coronavirus struck. But the pandemic has spotlighted agency employees’ increasing need for robust, secure capabilities in the field — or at home, in the case of remote work — and decision-makers need fast access to data analytics in a wide variety of situations. All those factors are driving interest in computing at the network edge, or processing data at the site of generation rather than storage. Edge computing has profound implications for a wide range of government missions across local, state, and Federal government, and with the emergence of 5G networks, it is becoming easier to incorporate. And if implemented thoughtfully, the benefits can be immense – reduced network stress, increased cybersecurity and savings in cost, time and storage. Read the latest insights from industry thought leaders in edge computing in Carahsoft’s Innovation in Government® report.

 

Streamlining the Adoption of Edge Computing

“Open source is a necessary component of edge computing for two main reasons. First, open source is much more secure than its proprietary counterparts due to the increased transparency. For edge deployments with hundreds or even thousands of sites, initially securing and maintaining them are solved through Red Hat open source. Second, open source supports a level of innovation most proprietary systems simply can’t match. When thousands of people work on a technology, that gives it a substantial advantage in terms of new ideas and accelerated innovation.”

Read more insights from Red Hat’s Practice Lead of OpenShift Virtualization, Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructure in the North American Public Sector, Garrett Clark.

 

A Unified Approach to Edge Computing

“To avoid piecemeal implementation, edge computing must be part of an agency’s overall IT infrastructure. When done well, it will empower agencies to make more efficient and faster decisions because they’ll be able to harness more data from across the entire landscape. It will also give end users better and faster access to data in the field so they can take advantage of those insights in real time. Edge devices will not replace existing IT but instead will expand on what’s already in place. By incorporating edge computing into enterprise modernization, agencies can also start applying machine learning and other emerging technologies to harness the power of data. However, with edge devices and data now outside agencies’ firewalls, security must be embedded into edge computing. Important tools include automated security and centralized management, perhaps via the cloud.”

Read more insights from Nutanix’s Senior Director of Public Sector Systems Engineers, Dan Fallon.

 

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“Edge computing holds a great deal of promise as a stand-alone capability, but when paired with technologies such as advanced connectivity and enterprise data platforms, edge computing can fuel new customer and employee experiences at scale. When agencies combine edge computing with advanced connectivity, for example, they can empower rich, personalized experiences for customers as well as employees. Imagine moving from a 2D world of video consumption to a 3D world with immersive experiences personalized at scale for the individual. Edge computing coupled with advanced connectivity and SAP’s data platform can serve as the foundation to bring these new experiences to life. To help fuel this innovation, advanced connectivity such as 5G and Wi-Fi 6 play an integral role.”

Read more insights from SAP’s Vice President, Global Center of Excellence, Frank Wilde.

 

Accelerating Mission Success at the Edge

“Sometimes an agency will want to be in a cloud environment, sometimes it will choose an edge computing environment, and often, it will need both. In that situation, some quick analytics can happen at the edge, but then the data can move to the cloud for a deeper evaluation that will draw out more predictive insights and analytics. There are three key considerations agencies should keep in mind when moving to edge computing. First, they should think about it as part of a larger continuum alongside their core technologies, including cloud. Second, agencies should design for consistency in management and orchestration. Regardless of where a workload is running, a consistent approach helps agencies manage IT resources and costs and allows the organizations to scale and expand. The third consideration is more far reaching, but I encourage agency leaders to think about the opportunities that edge computing opens up.”

Read more insights from Dell’s Global Marketing Director of Edge and IoT Solutions, Kirsten Billhardt.

 

Beyond the Data Center and the Cloud

“We expect the number of connected devices to reach nearly 45 billion by 2025, gathering close to 80 zettabytes. Unfortunately, sending that growing amount of data to the cloud for processing is not always the best option due to bandwidth limitations and cost concerns. Many government systems are also not connected to the cloud and need to process data locally. Edge technology evolved to meet those challenges by bringing the advantages of cloud closer to the edge. Business applications enabled by edge computing include autonomous delivery, machine control, environmental monitoring, fleet vehicle diagnostics, vision-based analytics and defect detection. Edge computing is particularly beneficial in two situations: when a great deal of data needs to be migrated to the cloud for storage but there is little or no bandwidth and when data needs to be collected and acted on quickly at the edge (e.g., autonomous vehicles and drones).”

Read more insights from AWS’s Principal Technical Business Development Leader for IoT in the Worldwide Public Sector, Lorraine Bassett.

 

Edge: The Next Paradigm Shift in IT  

“Agencies can protect their data and applications across any cloud strategy (including on-premises, private, hybrid, multi-cloud or edge computing) with a cloud-agnostic, edge-based Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) solution. A globally distributed WAAP will protect websites, applications and APIs from downtime and data theft due to web attacks and distributed denial-of service (DDoS) attacks. All network-layer DDoS attacks, including those by large IoT botnets, are instantly dropped at the edge because a WAAP functions as a reverse proxy and only accepts traffic via ports 80 and 443. Any application-layer DDoS or web attack will be automatically inspected and stopped at the edge without disrupting access for legitimate users. Additionally, modern application architectures are shifting toward greater use of microservices and away from monolithic pieces of software. Small, independent microservices are assembled into more complex applications so they can leverage fully functional and distributed processes from third-party APIs.”

Read more insights from Akamai’s Senior Vice President of Web Performance, Lelah Manz.

 

Download the full Innovation in Government® report for more insights from these government edge computing thought leaders and additional industry research from FCW.

Three Forward-Thinking Ways to Optimize Telework Infrastructure

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In the wake of statewide stay-at-home orders triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic across the country, businesses have had to pivot to telework operations practically overnight. This effort, considered a challenge for any business, was especially difficult for government agencies—in 2019, just 19 percent of local government agencies, and less than half of all states, had any telework infrastructure set up.

Nutanix Telework Infrastructure Blog ImageAgencies have had to put in place stopgap measures to set up systems, establish policies and procedures, and acquire or adjust the technology needed to enable employees to work from home efficiently and securely.

While some states are starting to reopen businesses, the timeline for a nationwide return to work remains unknown, and organizations need to be prepared for prolonged or renewed wide-scale teleworking. Agencies should take this opportunity to assess their current telework setup and consider how it might look in the future—what changes should be made to optimize systems, ensure reliability, and create a scalable and sustainable solution? Continue reading →