Tag Archives: Nutanix

Better Together: How Nutanix and Omnissa Are Building the Modern Government Workspace

Posted on by
Reply

Public Sector IT leaders navigate rapid change including geopolitical shifts, evolving cyber threats, vendor consolidation and pressure to do more with constrained budgets. For agencies modernizing end-user computing (EUC) and digital workspace environments, progress increasingly depends on integrated infrastructure, flexible architecture and trusted partnerships. Nutanix and Omnissa, distributed by Carahsoft, The Trusted It Solutions Provider™, deliver a combined platform that reduces complexity, accelerates deployment and keeps agency employees productive and secure.

A Partnership Built for the Public Sector

Carahsoft is the bridge between technology innovators and Government agencies, providing procurement vehicles, technical resources and partner support that simplify adoption. That relationship extends to Nutanix and Omnissa, with Carahsoft serving as a distribution partner that helps Federal, State, Local and Education agencies access both platforms through streamlined procurement. The partnership spans years of General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule contracting support, proof-of-concept assistance and technical resources that help agencies evaluate, deploy and scale their environments with confidence.

Nutanix brings a unified, software-defined infrastructure platform that combines compute, storage and virtualization into one hyper-converged stack. Rather than managing firmware updates across siloed server, storage and networking components, agencies can use Nutanix Prism Central and its Lifecycle Manager (LCM) to manage lifecycles holistically, reducing administrative overhead and compatibility risks. Nutanix’s cloud platform, NC2, also enables consistent operations across on-premises environments, AWS, Azure and Google Clouds without requiring agencies to re-architect their applications.

Omnissa is fully focused on the modern digital workspace. Through Workspace ONE, Omnissa unifies management of virtual desktops (VDI), mobile devices and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications while providing enterprise-grade security, conditional access and unified endpoint management (UEM). Omnissa also uses AI to proactively monitor and improve the digital employee experience, identifying performance issues before they affect end users.

A Stronger Solution Together

The integration between Nutanix and Omnissa Horizon on AHV, Nutanix’s native hypervisor, reached general availability at the end of December 2025 and has seen significant market response. Its beta program was the largest and most successful in Horizon’s history, and within weeks of general availability, the combined solution had already scaled to over 70,000 users. That momentum reflects real demand from agencies seeking a high-performance, fully supported alternative that avoids the constraints of legacy vendor agreements.

The technical case for combining the platforms centers on optimization. Running Horizon on Nutanix’s hyper-converged infrastructure positions compute and storage in the same stack, delivering measurably stronger VDI performance than traditional three-tier architectures. The operational experience combines Nutanix’s infrastructure management through Prism with Horizon’s app delivery and provisioning capabilities, including App Volumes, giving IT teams a more unified view across their virtual desktop environment. The outcome is faster deployment, lower total cost of ownership and reduced complexity.

Nutanix and Omnissa Better Together Blog, embedded image, 2026

Rethinking How Apps Are Delivered

One meaningful Omnissa capability is its apps-on-demand delivery model through App Volumes. Many agencies still use persistent desktop environments, pre-loading large application libraries onto each VDI instance whether or not they are needed. For engineering teams managing hundreds of applications, this creates unnecessary bloat, complicates patching and introduces avoidable performance overhead.

Omnissa shifts that model by delivering applications on demand, so they are available when needed without the administrative burden of persistent installation. This speeds patching, reduces the management footprint and gives IT teams tighter control over the application environment.

Addressing the Evolving Demands of Government IT

The Nutanix and Omnissa partnership is designed to grow with agency requirements. Hybrid deployments spanning on-premises data centers and cloud environments are now the norm, and both platforms support that reality. Nutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2) enables Nutanix workloads to run natively on AWS and Azure while maintaining consistent management while Omnissa Horizon extends seamlessly across those environments so agencies can place workloads based on performance, compliance and cost requirements.

Licensing flexibility reinforces that adaptability. Nutanix offers End-User Computing (EUC) licensing on a per-user basis so agencies can license per user or by core count. For organizations with power users who need high-performance environments, this model delivers direct cost savings, a meaningful consideration for Public Sector agencies that must justify every technology investment.

Security is embedded, not added on. Nutanix incorporates Nutanix Flow Network Security micro-segmentation and Zero Trust networking capabilities at the infrastructure layer while Omnissa brings conditional access policies, endpoint compliance enforcement and AI-driven threat monitoring at the workspace layer. Together, they create a layered security posture that supports the rigorous Government compliance demands.

Simplifying the Path to Modernization

For agencies running VMware or Citrix environments and navigating the complexity of transition costs, structured migration support removes a common barrier to change. Nutanix and Omnissa both offer migration tools, validated reference designs, pre-sales architects and post-sales services teams designed to move agencies from existing platforms to the integrated stack. Environment sizing tools help partners and agencies right-size deployments before committing resources, reducing the risk of over- or under-provisioning.

Preparing for an AI-Driven Future

Looking ahead, both organizations are investing in AI integration as a core platform capability, an approach particularly relevant for Public Sector agencies working to adopt AI responsibly. Nutanix supports AI and containerized workloads on the same infrastructure used for VDI, using Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box and reducing the need for separate AI infrastructure. Running AI workloads in a virtualized environment has also shown total cost of ownership (TCO) advantages over bare-metal deployments.

Omnissa is building AI into autonomous digital workspace management, enabling more self-healing, self-optimizing environments that detect and resolve performance issues before they impact productivity. For agencies exploring AI use cases, VDI environments offer a controlled deployment path that routes sensitive data within agency boundaries rather than public cloud AI services.

For Public Sector agencies evaluating their next phase of IT modernization, the combination of Nutanix’s infrastructure simplicity, Omnissa’s workspace management depth and Carahsoft’s procurement and support ecosystem represents a practical, proven path forward.

To learn more about the Nutanix and Omnissa integrated solution, including the general availability of Omnissa Horizon 8 support for Nutanix AHV, visit the Omnissa blog.

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 Nutanix and Omnissa, 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.

Better Together: How Nutanix and AccuKnox Are Securing the Tactical Edge, and Beyond

Posted on by
Reply

Modern defense operations demand more than connectivity; they demand resilience. As mission environments grow increasingly contested and disconnected, the ability to process intelligence, deploy applications and enforce security at the edge has become a strategic imperative. Nutanix and AccuKnox have built a compelling answer: a tightly integrated platform that pairs the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) with AccuKnox’s Zero Trust security layer to deliver a complete, hardened stack, from the software factory to forward-deployed vessels to orbiting satellites. This hardened stack is also hardware agnostic and can be deployed on bare metal tactical servers, and up to IL6+ Govcloud instances. For the Department of War (DoW) architects, system integrators and space operations professionals, the critical question is no longer whether to modernize, but how to do it in environments where reach back is unreliable, swap space is constrained and the cost of failure is operational.

Kubernetes as the Foundation for Tactical Edge Operations

Delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure to physically remote, resource-constrained environments requires more than Kubernetes alone. Kubernetes represents roughly 30% of the solution; the remainder is a curated ecosystem of microservices, service mesh, observability tools and storage integrations that together form a complete operational platform. Without that full stack, organizations risk spending months assembling disparate open source components, only to find that their workloads are still unable to reach production. The NKP addresses this by delivering a pre-integrated, hardware-agnostic solution deployable on bare metal, in the cloud or fully air-gapped at the tactical edge. Whether the use case is a carrier strike group operating disconnected at sea, a forward-deployed Army unit running legacy virtual machines (VMs) alongside containers, or an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) requiring a minimal footprint, NKP provides a single platform capable of self-healing, automated scaling and continuous operation, regardless of connectivity status.

AI Delivery and Agentic Capabilities in Disconnected Environments

In contested environments, artificial intelligence (AI) cannot depend on cloud inference. It must run locally, reliably and securely. Nutanix Enterprise AI layers on top of NKP to provide a managed platform for running Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and agentic AI applications with full GPU support, all within disconnected environments. At a recent TechNet San Diego demonstration, RAG AI was used to surface answers from complex naval system maintenance manuals in seconds, a direct application for shipboard readiness operations. Agentic platforms are now deployed with Army units and fielding requests from naval activities, running fully on NKP hardware aboard vessels and mobile command centers without internet dependency. AI models trained at core installations are pushed to forward-deployed assets, where they run locally and queue updates for synchronization upon reconnection, preserving operational continuity without compromising security or model integrity.

Zero Trust Security Woven Into Every Layer

Security at the tactical edge requires continuous policy enforcement at every layer of the software stack, from code commit to container runtime in the field. AccuKnox integrates below the application layer to enforce least-permissive security policies at the kernel level using eBPF-based telemetry. Its Discovery Engine analyzes applications both statically and dynamically, automatically generating security manifests that accompany each application throughout its full deployment lifecycle. These policies define exactly where an application can communicate, what data it can access and how it may interact with adjacent system components—creating enforcement that is architectural rather than reactive. For acquisition officials and Authorizing Officials (AOs) managing distributed mission systems, the platform also automates the generation of compliance evidence covering Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) and relevant security frameworks, compressing what has historically been a months-long manual process into continuous, audit-ready assurance.

Extending the Stack to Orbit: DevSpaceOps

The Nutanix and AccuKnox partnership extends beyond the terrestrial edge to software-defined satellites and orbital platforms. Modern satellite platforms support containerized payloads, multi-tenancy and high-tempo software updates, and they carry significant security exposure. A representative sample of open source software deployed across current satellite initiatives contains more than 60 million lines of code and upwards of 20,000 CVEs. Unlike ground-based nodes, satellites cannot rely on real-time downlink for security decisions; they require local policy enforcement, runtime monitoring and eventually consistent posture reporting to the ground. The concept of DevSpaceOps, modeled on DevSecOps but adapted to the constraints of orbit, addresses how development teams can certify, deploy and manage satellite software with verifiable confidence, leveraging lightweight versions of KubeArmor, automated SPARTA TTP mapping and orbital security dashboards that give Space Operations Center (SOC) teams constellation-wide visibility into STIG compliance, CVE exposure and runtime violations.

One Stack, Every Domain

NKP delivers the hardware-agnostic, cloud-native platform that enables continuous operations across disconnected, multi-domain environments, from carrier strike groups to Army forward units to orbital constellations. AccuKnox ensures that everything running on that platform is secured, monitored and compliant at every layer of the stack. For defense organizations looking to reduce decision latency, accelerate the Authorization to Operate (ATO) lifecycle and ensure security travels with every workload, this joint solution offers a proven, fielded path forward.

To explore these capabilities in greater depth, including live demonstrations of sensor-to-shooter workflows, orbital security posture management and agentic AI in disconnected environments, watch the full webinar presented by Nutanix and Carahsoft.

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 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.

Better Together: How Nutanix and Omnissa Are Transforming End-User Computing in the Public Sector

Posted on by
Reply

Budget cuts and the pressure to do more with less has pushed IT leaders in State, Local and Education (SLED) organizations to consolidate tools and resources to increase operational efficiency. Simultaneously, the dynamic of workflows are changing; modern-day students and Government workers need secure access to resources from anywhere, at any time.

Integrated solutions are helping SLED organizations eliminate the unnecessary complexity and costs associated with maintaining separate solutions for storage, compute and networking components. The recent partnership between Nutanix and Omnissa offers SLED organizations a platform for managing End-User Computing (EUC) across agencies, states, cities and school districts.

Vendor Choice and Pricing Flexibility

Faced with higher costs and more restrictions, many SLED organizations are seeking alternatives solutions that can provide similar functionality without the associated vendor lock-in risks. The Nutanix-Omnissa platform offers multiple licensing options, including per-user models that offer greater flexibility than traditional bundled approaches. Organizations can choose the licensing model that best fits their usage patterns and budget constraints.

The solution also works with a wide range of server vendors including Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco and more, allowing organizations to leverage existing hardware investments or choose vendors based on their specific procurement requirements. This enables different agencies within the same Government entity to standardize on the same technology stack, eliminating disparate systems.

Hybrid Cloud Security, Compliance and Resilience

SLED organizations must be able to provide remote access to sensitive data while simultaneously meeting strict compliance mandates. The Nutanix-Omnissa Horizon platform supports certified Government cloud environments, including FedRAMP, GovRAMP and GovCloud, ensuring consistent enforcement of security policies across on-premises and hybrid deployments. Department of Defense (DoD) certifications validate the platform for regulated workloads, while unified access gateway appliances deliver secure, compliant remote access.

To strengthen resilience, Nutanix provides automated disaster recovery and replication across sites and clouds, maintaining workload availability even during outages. Agencies can extend their EUC environments across AWS, Azure and soon Google Cloud, balancing scalability with compliance while preserving consistent management and licensing. When paired with Omnissa Horizon Cloud-Pod technology, the platform can provide a true multi-cloud solution including on-premises hybridity.

How Nutanix and Omnissa Are Transforming EUC, blog, embedded image, 2025

Simplified Infrastructure Management

Outmoded infrastructure management often requires specialized expertise across hypervisors, storage, networking components and management tools, creating operational overhead and increasing the risk of configuration errors or security gaps. The Nutanix-Omnissa Horizon integration streamline operations through Prism Central, a unified management interface for multi-cluster and hybrid environments.

The platform includes built-in capabilities for replication, disaster recovery and automated maintenance that traditionally required separate tools and specialized expertise. Lifecycle management capabilities automatically update firmware, software and system components with zero downtime, allowing organizations to perform maintenance during business hours and reduce human error during update processes.

Technical Differentiators and Release Roadmap

Beyond EUC management, the Nutanix-Omnissa Horizon solution introduces technical advantages like Clone Prep technology that enables extremely fast, reboot-free provisioning, delivering near instant clone performance. Nutanix’s metadata-based cloning and data locality ensure low-latency performance for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) workloads, while built-in deduplication and erasure coding optimize storage efficiency. Additional features further strengthen the platform’s ability to meet complex SLED requirements, including:

  • Nutanix Files – scalable file services that can be used for user profiles and Omnissa App Volumes
  • Nutanix Flow – microsegmentation and network security
  • Nutanix Data Lens – ransomware protection and data insights

The partnership is rolling out in phases to ensure stability and customer success. Limited Availability (LA) is currently offered, supporting Windows 10 and 11 automated pools, graphics processing unit (GPU) support and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) appliances. General Availability (GA) is expected between December and March, adding capabilities such as:

  • Automated remote desktop service (RDS) farms
  • Windows Server operating system (OS) support
  • Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) mode
  • Workspace ONE Access on-premises integration

Proven Partnership with Enhanced Capabilities

Thousands of organizations already run Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix infrastructure using vSphere, demonstrating the maturity and proven nature of the underlying technology platform. The addition of AHV hypervisor support represents an evolution of an existing partnership rather than an experimental new venture, validated real-world organizations that participated in the beta program.

The partnership brings together the complete technology stack and expertise from both organizations. Omnissa brings over 15 years of Horizon and Workspace expertise, while Nutanix contributes hyperconverged infrastructure capabilities. Together, they deliver mature, field-tested solutions that reduce operational complexity, consolidate infrastructure and enable future growth with confidence.

To learn more about how this partnership can transform your organization’s EUC strategy, watch the complete webinar, “Unlock the Future of EUC for Public Sector: Horizon 8 on Nutanix.”

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 Nutanix and Omnissa, 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.

Nutanix AHV and Rubrik’s Layered Security – The Key to System Resilience and Efficiency

Posted on by
Reply

Protecting critical infrastructure from cyber threats and ensuring business continuity in the face of disasters is a top priority for organizations today. Luckily, Nutanix AHV, a modern, secure virtualization platform that powers and enhances virtual machines (VMs), can help. Rubrik’s integrated solutions fortify AHV environments against ransomware attacks and enable efficient disaster recovery. By leveraging features like immutable backups, anomaly detection and on-demand cloud-based disaster recovery, organizations can enhance their cyber resilience and minimize the impact of disruptive incidents.

A Simple and Secure Path to VM Management

Nutanix AHV is simple to use and secure by design. The platform works through a centralized control plane, where AHV is integrated into a single application programming interface (API). This eradicates a complicated setup on the customer side. By maintaining constant management and a virtualization layer, Nutanix AHV allows organizations to fulfill mission objectives.

Nutanix AHV features several built-in security features, such as micro-segmentation, data insights, audit trails, ransomware protection and data age analytics.

Nutanix features:

  • Built-in, self-healing abilities protect against disk failure, node failure and more
  • A vulnerability patch summary automatically alerts users about susceptibility risks and anomalies that need to be addressed
  • A life cycle manager provides readmittance testing and deployment testing
  • More than one copy of backup data, ensuring that users do not lose valuable information
  • Multi-site replication including to and from the public cloud.

Securing data in Nutanix AHV requires more than just the basic perimeter defenses, but a multi-layered strategy. With Rubrik’s data protection abilities, which include immutable backups, automatic encryption and logical air-gapping, agencies and organizations can recover information within minutes and resume mission objectives in the event of a breach.

Securing Data with Rubrik’s Rapid Recovery Abilities

Rubrik, a security cloud solution provider that keeps your data resilient, enables the near-instant recovery of virtual machines and data within the Nutanix AHV environment. Rubrik provides multiple recovery options within AHV, such as file-level recovery, live mount, export, mount virtual disks and downloadable virtual disk files. Through Rubrik, businesses can recover files from older hypervisors into newer AHV environments without having older hypervisors online. Once granted access to the AHV environment, Rubrik automatically discovers and integrates protocols and base level policies for VMs. Rubrik’s recovery process restores data in minutes, regardless of VM size. As VMs get larger and larger, frequently hitting 50 terabytes, this speedy and precise response empowers organization’s incident response plans to be swift and efficient. After scanning the meta data, users are granted file level recovery after anomaly detection, allowing users oversight on affected data.

As the data that organizations manage grows exponentially, data security becomes critical to business functions. Rubrik offers comprehensive data security, continuously monitoring and remediating data risks within the network.

Through Rubrik, businesses can recover files from older hypervisors into newer AHV environments without having older hypervisors online. Once granted access to the AHV environment, Rubrik automatically discovers and integrates protocols and base level policies for VMs.Rubrik’s recovery process restores data in minutes, regardless of VM size. As VMs get larger and larger, frequently hitting 50 terabytes, this speedy and precise response empowers organization’s incident response plans to be swift and efficient.After scanning the meta data, users are granted file level recovery after anomaly detection, allowing users oversight on affected data.

Rubrik also provides constant monitoring for backups. Typically, businesses do not regulate data backlogs, which increases the likelihood that they miss attackers that sit in the system environment for a few days before collecting data. With Rubrik’s threat monitoring and hunting, organizations can search through backups and detect when an anomaly entered the environment. Through Nutanix and Rubrik’s integration, IT teams can reduce complexity, gain oversight, cut down on operational costs and improve resiliency and efficiency.

Automation: The Key to a Proactive Incident Response

Modern cyber threats require a proactive approach to incident response. With automation and orchestration, facilitated by the combined capabilities of Nutanix and Rubrik, organizations can detect, respond to and recover from cyber incidents more efficiently.

Rubrik has a built-in anomaly detection, which searches protected data for strange behavior, such as mass deletion or encryption. As the volume of data on a network increases, organizations often have sensitive data they are not actively monitoring or even know sensitive data maybe exposed. Rubrik clusters are always scanning protected data for anomalies, sensitive data, and known IOC’s allowing customers to select resolution options, such as isolating compromised VMs, or the ability to restore product systems from last known good copies.

Readiness impacts recovery time, and recovery time impacts organization operations. Nutanix AHV’s recovery organization authorizes IT teams to organize VMs into a set of templates, which can be used to create blueprints and launch application recovery. Nutanix also provides organizations with the flexibility to apply policy to each workload, taking control of network security and BC/DR policy with VM level granularity. By allowing organizations to map out their application owners, Nutanix AHV enables businesses to move from a reactive to a proactive security posture, minimizing the impact of attacks and ensuring swift recovery.

Nutanix and Rubrik’s integration creates a powerful security and operational synergy, empowering organizations with the tools they need for network safety and, if necessary, a swift and comprehensive restoration of critical systems, empowering organizations to resume business missions. Nutanix AHV enables organizations to reduce complexity, improve security and achieve a higher level of resilience and operational efficiency.

To learn more about how Nutanix AHV and Rubrik’s integration delivers streamlined data protection, rapid recovery and robust incident response capabilities, watch our webinar, Fortifying AHV: Cyber Recovery and Incident Response with Nutanix and Rubrik.

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

Posted on by
Reply

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

HPE AMD Nutanix Better Together Modern Enterprises Blog Embedded Image 2025

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

Posted on by
Reply

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.

Nutanix on E-Rate Education Blog Embedded Image 2023

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

Posted on by
Reply

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.

Nutanix HPE Cloud Blog Embedded Image 2023

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.