Nutanix Cements Market Leadership with New HCI Software Innovations

.NEXT Conference - Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced major new capabilities in its popular hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software, delivering significant innovations to the datacenter and cloud markets. Specifically, these innovations will bring up to 50% faster performance, native virtual networking to simplify multicloud deployments, end-to-end security monitoring to support a Zero-Trust strategy, and expanded automation and budgeting capabilities for cloud resources. In addition to extending its HCI software stack to the public cloud, the company continues to set the bar for innovation in the fast-growing HCI market, putting true IT modernization within reach of all organizations.

HCI has become the standard for powering modern private clouds, and Nutanix software is recognized by more than 17,000 customers and leading industry analysts for its unmatched simplicity, scalability, resilience, and security, all of which conclude that Nutanix is an undisputed leader in the fast-growing HCI market. Most recently, the company was recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave: Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q3 2020, in which it received the highest score across all three categories: current offering, strategy (tied), and market presence. The Forrester report shared: “Nutanix has maintained its position atop the HCI market with its innovation, R&D investment, sales momentum, partnerships, and acquisition of new customers from all segments and geographies … It has a clear, impressive roadmap for its product lines.”

Today’s announcement highlights Nutanix’s commitment to innovation to meet emerging customer requirements and further disrupt the industry status quo. With these new HCI improvements, Nutanix customers will benefit from:

50% Faster Performance

Nutanix has once again advanced its HCI architecture to exploit the latest in storage technologies, including NVMe based SSDs and Intel Optane SSDs. The resulting lower latency will deliver up to 50% faster performance for I/O intensive workloads, such as large databases and large-scale healthcare applications. The advancements also improve VM density to lower the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) for all applications.

The company’s new Blockstore technology self-manages storage with significantly greater efficiency than traditional file systems. In addition, Nutanix HCI software adds support for Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK), currently available to customers as a technology preview, an open source library developed by Intel that enables applications to access NVMe capacity directly, avoiding any operating system or kernel-level overhead to drive even faster workload performance. Together, Blockstore and SPDK reinforce the benefits of Nutanix’s software-defined architecture, enabling continuous advancements in both performance and resiliency.