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Hello, I'm Alex Arcilla, Principal Validation Analyst with Omdia's Go-to-Market Insights and Advisory team. Today, I'll be discussing Omdia's technical validation of Nutanix Cloud Platform with EverPure and how this joint solution can support you in today's evolving virtualization market. The continuing evolution of the hypervisor market landscape has prompted organizations to
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evaluate alternatives. While changes in licensing models have led to unanticipated cost increases, research from Enterprise Strategy Group, now Omdia, found that organizations are not necessarily motivated by cost when considering other hypervisors. Respondents to a recent survey revealed that when it comes to evaluating alternatives, the
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two most cited concerns to address are compatibility with existing infrastructure and scalability. This points to organizations needing to consider the diversity of business and mission critical workloads to be supported going forward. Another concern is the rise of data intensive workloads.
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While hyperconverged infrastructure or HCI enabled organizations to easily scale compute and storage by adding nodes, this approach doesn't work well when data requirements scale beyond what HCI nodes can provide alone without wasting computer resources. Selecting an alternative hypervisor must also enable simple and independent scaling of compute and storage resources individually.
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Enter the Nutanix Cloud Platform or NCP with EverPure Flash Array X, XL, and C. This joint solution can support organizations operating storage intensive virtualized workloads with an alternative enterprise ready hypervisor that works with high performance all flash storage. EverPure customers can extend their storage investments when using the Nutanix Acropolis
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Hypervisor or AHV as their alternative. The solution features a disaggregated architecture with Nutanix AHV managing compute resources and EverPure Flash Array providing storage with data access enabled via NVMe over TCP. Using this protocol provides consistent low latency, high ops data access.
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Workloads leverage Nutanix AHV's virtualization security, disaster recovery, and operational simplicity. While EverPure provides the data services organizations need to store and protect their data. Omdia validated that organizations using NCP with EverPure can benefit from architectural flexibility.
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This is important to note as NCP supports compute resources from Cisco, Dell Technologies, and HPE, three vendors with established footprints in numerous IT environments, thus no need to upgrade existing server hardware. Forklift storage upgrades are also eliminated with EverPure Evergreen. The simplified operations enabled by the VM centric management and control via Nutanix
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Prism Elements unified interface. By achieving API level integration of Nutanix and EverPure management tools, organizations don't need to use separate tools for operating and managing the compute, storage, and networking elements. And the granular storage control achieved through volume management on FlashArray.
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Applying enterprise level data services such as QOS and Snapshots is traditionally done at the physical storage layer. But this approach complicates operations when needing to apply different policies to individual virtualized workloads. With NCP and EverPure, organizations can accomplish this task on a per volume basis
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without affecting that volume's neighbors. Why does this all matter? With architectural flexibility, organizations can preserve existing investments in server hardware and EverPure Flash Array. The simplified operations help organizations to reduce the time and effort spent on their operations within virtualized environments.
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And the granular storage control enables the application of specific data services on a per volume basis so that workload performance and availability requirements are met. Collectively, these benefits can ultimately lead to lower capital and operational expenses in light of continued IT budget constraints. Thank you for joining us today.
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To learn more about our evaluation of NCP with EverPure, check out the report at the QR code.