Nutanix is excited to announce our new partnership with Canonical Ltd., the publisher of Ubuntu and provider of open source security, support and services. Through this partnership, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) customers will have the option to choose a well-supported and secure Linux operating system for NKP to help simplify Kubernetes® installation and adoption—reitenforcing the engineering commitment at Nutanix to the Linux, Cloud-Native and Open-Source communities.

Blog Post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-and-canonical-partner-to-simplify-kubernetes-deployments-with-nkp-and-ubuntu-pro

Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra
Co-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix

Expanding freedom of choice and workload mobility have long been core to the evolution of Nutanix products. We’re pleased to announce a path to another major cloud provider with the addition of the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) solution on Google Cloud public preview.

Blog Post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/announcing-nutanix-cloud-clusters-on-google-cloud-public-preview

Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra
Co-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix 

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the NCI Compute product, enabling Nutanix customers to leverage external storage as part of their NCP deployments.

The first supported solution at launch is the Nutanix Cloud Platform with Dell PowerFlex, a complete server-based infrastructure solution designed for large mission-critical environments where resiliency, security, scalability, and performance are essential.

Blog Post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-cloud-infrastructure-for-external-storage

Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra
Co-Host: Chris Calhoun, XenTegra
Co-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix
Co-Host: Ben Rogers, Nutanix

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