The Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) platform is a cost-effective solution for managing virtualized workloads in the cloud. It also provides the quickest way to move to the cloud without the need to refactor applications. NC2 can help with applications that run in virtual machines (VMs), but it can help equally well with containerized apps running in Kubernetes, thanks to the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution, which runs both on-premises and on NC2. 

Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/why-you-should-run-nkp-on-nutanix-cloud-clusters

Host: Phil Sellers, Practice Director for Modern Datacenter, XenTegra
Co-Host: Andy Greene, Solutions Architect, XenTegra
Co-Host: Chris Calhoun, Solutions Architect, XenTegra
Co-Host: Ben Rogers, Enterprise Sales Engineer, Nutanix

We're got a milestone with 100 episodes where we will recap some of our best moments from the first 99 episodes, some behind the scenes stories, with trivia and prizes.  

Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra
Co-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix
Co-Host: Ben Rogers, Nutanix
Co-host: Chris Calhoun, XenTegra
Co-host: Andy Greene, XenTegra
Special Guest: Tom Powell, Nutanix

Podcast Part 2 >> When you’re ready to make the move to a unified hybrid multicloud environment, it might seem daunting at first. You are most likely currently managing multiple operational silos across public, private, and possibly hybrid clouds and have been for years, and adapting to the minor and major inconveniences those disparate environments are causing you today.

Blog post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/moving-from-multiple-clouds-to-multicloud

Host: Phil Sellers, Practice Director for Modern Datacenter @ XenTegra
Co-host: Jirah Cox, Principal Solutions Architect @ Nutanix
Co-host: Chris Calhoun, Solutions Architect @ XenTegra

The terms “multiple clouds” and “multicloud” are often used interchangeably, but they represent distinctly different approaches to cloud strategy.

Blog post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/multiple-clouds-or-multicloud-understanding-the-key-differences

Host: Phil Sellers, Practice Director for Modern Datacenter
Co-host: Andy Greene, Solutions Architect
Co-host: Chris Calhoun, Solutions Architect

We are excited to introduce the next major AOS release for the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution, Version 7.0. This release is designed to help customers enhance fault tolerance, simplify automation, strengthen security, and improve networking across their Nutanix infrastructure.

Blog link: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/transform-your-cloud-experience-with-nutanix-aos-7-0-and-ahv-10

Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra

Co-Host: Chris Calhoun, XenTegra

Co-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix

Co-Host: Ben Rogers, Nutanix

Hybrid clouds are gaining popularity and maturity as organizations juggle workloads with different performance, governance and efficiency requirements. Nutanix has long held the view that most organizations will require both on-premises and public cloud presence.

As a result, Nutanix has invested in building a platform that provides the best way to create a unified hybrid cloud architecture. At Microsoft Ignite, Nutanix to shared best practices for running hybrid workloads and simplifying your hybrid cloud deployments.

Blog Post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/elevating-hybrid-cloud-for-ai-databases-at-microsoft-ignite

Host: Philip Sellers
Co-Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

In this episode, we talk with Healthcare Field CTO for Nutanix, Kurt Telep.  The conversation talks about trends in healthcare, challenges that healthcare customers are seeing and the ways that Nutanix can help customers facing thin margins, compliance and business pressure to operate IT efficiently.

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Kurt Telep

Discover the new Nutanix AOS 6.10 release - the next cornerstone for the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution.  This Long-Term Support (LTS) release not only enhances performance, manageability, and security but also  marks a new era for hybrid multicloud capabilities. Combining features from versions 6.6 through 6.81 into a single update, AOS 6.10 represents a significant advancement amidst the rapid pace of technological change.

Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/elevate-your-it-infrastructure-with-long-term-support-release-nutanix-aos-6-10

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

Today’s business challenges are unprecedented. Companies are dealing with an explosion of data and applications. IT environments are complex and acquisitions of longtime vendors are having the C-suite rethink their install base.

Meanwhile, shadow IT is swiping credit cards simply to get work done which exacerbates the challenge. Lack of flexibility and choice lead business units to solve their problems the best way they can. Unfortunately, some decisions are not easy to change once applications are up and running.

Hyperconverged infrastructure on-premises fixed a lot of issues around responding to the speed of the business and now has made its way into the public cloud over the last five years. Today, a single cloud platform can address security, management and data sovereignty by deploying into the right hyperscaler, service provider or edge site where more and more processing occurs.

Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/storage-mobility-to-meet-the-challenges-of-hybrid-multicloud post by Dwayne Lessner

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

Nutanix now supports the reuse of certain vSAN Ready Node hardware, allowing organizations to repurpose their previously-purchased hardware and transition smoothly from VMware to Nutanix.

Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-expands-support-for-vsan-ready-nodes

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Chris Calhoun
Co-Host: Jirah Cox

A slightly different episode this week for Nutanix Weekly.  This session is a conversation with Nutanix Technology Champion, Andrea Ribeiro.  Andrea is a Nutanix User Group leader for Sao Paulo, Brazil, and she is a blogger and community participant focused on Nutanix.  We talk about how she got started contributing to the Nutanix community, gaining the recognition of Nutanix and peers. 

Host: Phil Sellers
Guest: Andrea Ribeiro, thelittleriver.co 

Nutanix Unified Storage™ is now a leader in AI storage performance using the latest MLPerf™ Storage v1.0 benchmark, with a 2x performance improvement over last year’s result, establishing NUS as a gold standard for AI and machine learning applications.

Source Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-unified-storage-wins-the-mlperf-storage-v10-benchmark

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Jirah Cox 

Artificial Intelligence in the datacenter is one of the more exciting announcements from Nutanix in the last couple years and the partnership with NVIDIA is growing.  In this episode, we walk through what it takes to run NVIDIA Inferencing Server on Nutanix and how that works with real-world implications that you can test yourself. 

Reference Blog: https://www.nutanix.dev/2024/01/15/running-nvidia-triton-inference-server-on-nutanix/

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox 

This week, we talk with Subbiah Sundaram from HYCU, one of the strongest Nutanix ecosystem partners, about the recent innovations and protections for data hosted in Nutanix services.  HYCU was first to market with support for AHV backups, the collaborated with Nutanix to develop backup APIs for Nutanix Files and most recently, HYCU announced support for Nutanix Database Services or NDB, during the .NEXT conference in Barcelona. 

This podcast is based on HYCU's Blog Post, Empower Nutanix Data Protection with new HYCU innovation -
https://www.hycu.com/blog/empower-nutanix-data-security-with-hycu

Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra 
Guest: Subbiah Sundaram, HYCU

This week is a special episode, recorded live from the Nutanix .NEXT 2024 event in Barcelona, Spain.  On Tuesday, Nutanix held a keynote that unwrapped new capabilities in their software platform, focusing on AI and Cloud Native applications along with extending the reach of Nutanix AOS onto native cloud services in AWS.  We will recap all the major announcements from new releases and software to hardware partnerships and enhanced on-prem AI capabilities.  

Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra
Co-Host: Harvey Green, XenTegra-GOV
Co-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix

The pivot to a hybrid multicloud environment must form part of a CIO’s infrastructure strategy to take full advantage of next-generation solutions.

The key for CIO’s and other C-level executives is to plan for and enable this critical eventuality in their enterprise. The compelling business case for adopting the shift to hybrid multicloud is highlighted in the sixth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) report.

The findings of the ECI report reveal a notable increase in the planned deployment of hybrid multicloud infrastructure, which spans private IT infrastructure (on-premises and hosted), public clouds and edge locations.

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox 

Today we are proud to announce the general availability of Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK). NDK extends Nutanix Cloud Platform infrastructure capabilities to application-centric data services for containerized workloads. With NDK 1.0, platform engineers can make it incredibly easy for developers to build and run containerized workloads without scrambling for storage management resources.

Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-nutanix-data-services-for-kubernetes

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

Building a fully customized solution from scratch can be complicated. It requires researching various hardware and software products from multiple vendors and verifying that they offer everything you want and work together.

You must also make several detailed design decisions, then evaluate the complete solution for supportability, maintainability and scalability to ensure that it meets your operational needs, can adapt to changing requirements, and offers a compelling TCO and ROI.

At Nutanix, we understand that one size doesn’t fit all. To provide the right solution for your needs, we offer various technical solution artifacts: Tech Notes (TN), Best Practices Guides (BPGs), Reference Architectures (RAs), and Nutanix Validated Designs (NVDs).

Blog Link: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-validated-designs-blueprints-for-success by Ketan Mota

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

In the first iteration of Nutanix Cloud Clusters, your built-in NVMe storage was the only capacity you could tap into.  With Nutanix's recent announcement of Just-In-Time storage with AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) you can now customize the amount of storage you need in a cluster with expansion capabilities.  

In this episode, we talk about the news from a blog post on nutanix.com posted by Dewayne Lessner about EBS with Nutanix Cloud Clusters.

https://www.nutanix.com/blog/just-in-time-cloud-storage-for-nutanix-cloud-clusters

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

Deploying a VDI environment for a globally distributed workforce, BYOD, hot desk environments and call centers is complex and is hard to manage. However, the storage that supports VDI to run VMs and unstructured user profile data need not be.

Exponential growth of unstructured data is putting a tremendous strain on the legacy three-tier architecture of VDI environments. Whether it is a single user VDI or a multi-user remote desktop service, deteriorating VDI performance, complexity in managing storage, protecting user data against cyberthreats and ransomware are key challenges. This is especially true with a growing remote workforce and user data.

Blog post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/unified-data-services-platform-simplifies-vdi

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

We recently commissioned International Data Corporation (IDC) to evaluate the use of Nutanix Objects Storage for modern, data-intensive workloads. IDC examined the evolution of Object Storage which has ranged from cold data repositories for backups and archives to newer, high-performance object stores for data-intensive workloads. The study also involves insightful interviews with Nutanix customers who are using Nutanix Objects Storage for analytics workloads.

https://www.nutanix.com/blog/modern-data-intensive-workloads-requiring-high-performance

Host: Phil Sellers (@infraphilip)
Co-Host: Harvey Green III
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

As organizations adopt strategies to remain agile and competitive, cloud-native containerized applications are becoming a business imperative. In fact, the 5th annual Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index article reported nearly all 1,450 IT decision makers surveyed (94%) reported having deployed Kubernetes® containerization which is the most commonly used cloud-native framework.

Embracing the concept of containerized apps requires a significant paradigm shift across every aspect of an organization—but with the right cultural mindset and the right tools and platforms, a cloud-native approach can set you up for current and future success.

Based on blog post - Going Cloud Native: Build Apps Once, Deploy Anywhere, https://www.nutanix.com/blog/build-apps-once-deploy-anywhere

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

As organizations advance in their digital transformation journeys, they’re creating more applications than ever to meet modern customer and internal demands. Whether its cloud-native applications, traditional applications deployed in on-premises datacenters or modern applications deployed at edge locations, the number of apps is skyrocketing. In the 5th Annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) study commissioned by Nutanix, nearly all (94%) of the 1,450 respondents surveyed agreed with the statement that “one place to run and manage all applications and data across clouds is ideal for my organization.”

Modern organizations are faced with the dual challenge of not only building infrastructure that accommodates their newly developed apps but also ensuring seamless mobility for apps and data across diverse environments and between different clouds and on-premises setups. Workload migration and portability are essential to modernizing your applications and fully embracing the benefits of the cloud.

Discussing a blog from Marc Trouard-Riolle:
https://www.nutanix.com/blog/making-workload-migration-efficient-and-cost-effective

Host: Philip Sellers
Co-host: Harvey Green
Co-host: Jirah Cox
Co-host: Ben Rogers

In the first installment of our What If You Could series, we defined hybrid multicloud and showed how Nutanix was the only vendor to make hybrid multicloud simple and cost-effective across on-premises and multiple public clouds. In this article, we take a deeper look into multiple cloud deployments—which often don’t equate to true multicloud—and why they can be a challenge. 

To survive in an increasingly competitive and shifting marketplace, organizations continue to look for ways to increase agility, scalability, and innovation with public and private cloud services. Today the cloud is a vital component of practically every business, regardless of industry and size. And when it comes to the cloud, the concept of “one-stop shop” doesn’t apply. 

Organizations are using multiple clouds to find the right balance between business and technical requirements and varying cloud services for their different workloads, so they can work as efficiently as possible. With the multiple cloud approach quickly becoming the de facto standard for modern enterprises, the term “multicloud” is often used to describe this approach, but that can be a bit of a misnomer. 

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Philip Sellers
Co-host: Harvey Green
Co-host: Jirah Cox
Co-host: Ben Rogers