IT at a Crossroads - Nautanix

IT is increasingly being asked to spend less time on infrastructure and allocate more time and budget to application services that add business value. Despite a continuous stream of IT hardware

and software enhancements, the infrastructure challenges faced by IT teams continue to rise. 

The IT infrastructure and virtualization software required to meet the needs of business is complex and expensive, and datacenter management has become painful. Far too much time and effort are focused on just keeping the lights on.

Legacy infrastructure—with separate storage, storage networks, and servers—is not well suited to meet the growing demands of enterprise applications or the fast pace of modern business. 

The silos created by traditional infrastructure have become a barrier to change and progress, adding complexity to every step from ordering to deployment to management. New business initiatives require buy-in from multiple teams, and IT needs have to be predicted 3-to-5 years

in advance. As most IT teams know, this is almost impossible to get right. In addition, vendor lock-in and increasing licensing costs are stretching budgets to the breaking point.

Time for a Different Approach?

Enterprise IT teams today are looking for ways to deliver onpremises IT services with the speed and operational efficiency of public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine.

Taking cues from web giants, hyperconverged infrastructure combines x86-based compute and storage resources with intelligent software to eliminate common pain points associated

with legacy infrastructure.

Nutanix delivers a comprehensive enterprise cloud platform that bridges the wide gap that exists between traditional infrastructure and public cloud services. The solution delivers turnkey infrastructure that integrates servers, storage and virtualization along with end-to-end systems management and operations management capabilities. This allows enterprises to deploy infrastructure in minutes and shift the focus to applications that power the business.

While hyperconvergence is not an end point in itself, it is the fundamental building block for enterprise cloud. This book gives an overview of the Nutanix hyperconverged solution and walks

through how different features and functionality work to provide a fast, highly scalable and efficient datacenter solution for enterprises of all sizes.