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Real-World, Scenario-Driven Enterprise Cloud Testing

Nutanix X-Ray is a comprehensive hyperconverged infrastructure and enterprise cloud testing app, enabling organizations to evaluate any platform by automating the analysis of consistent performance and reliability. Using real-world test scenarios that negatively affect applications, such as the impact of taking many snapshots, or adding new workloads into existing mission-critical application clusters, X-Ray makes it possible to accurately understand the application impact throughout its lifecycle.

Testing for Application Consistency

The needs of organizational IT have moved beyond I/O performance tests or synthetic numbers for infrastructure evaluation, to demonstrating consisting application performance under real-world datacenter scenarios. X-Ray’s fully customizable suit of tests assesses all key areas of the application and infrastructure lifecycle:

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Nutanix Flow Delivers Software-Defined Networking to Secure Applications with a Single Click

Newly Acquired Netsil Technology to Add Non-Intrusive Application Visibility Across Multiple Clouds

New Orleans – May 9, 2018 – Nutanix® (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced at its .NEXT Conference 2018 Nutanix Flow, a software-defined networking (SDN) solution built for the multi-cloud era. Flow provides application-centric security to protect against internal and external threats not detected by traditional perimeter-oriented security products. Flow capabilities are fully integrated into Nutanix’s AcropolisTM software for easy deployment and will be enhanced with real-time application visibility and discovery technology from the company’s recent acquisition of Netsil. Nutanix Flow non-intrusively automates the creation and management of application security .

Enterprise IT teams are turning to cloud-based infrastructure to deliver today’s modern business applications, many of which are built from discrete but interconnected services. Protecting these applications requires the microsegmentation capabilities of Nutanix Flow, which enforces app-centric policies that govern communications between individual application services. Nutanix will also leverage Netsil’s advanced stream processing, application discovery and mapping technology to simplify security policy definition for applications running in both public and private clouds. IT teams and business owners gain the confidence that their business applications are protected from both internal and external security threats.

“The next frontier of networking is about providing customers with visibility into their networks so they can track and analyze data, improve cloud application performance and optimize their resources,” said Harjot Gill, Sr. Director, Product & Engineering, Nutanix. “We have worked hard to integrate Netsil’s advanced functionality into Nutanix Flow and we’re proud our customers will soon be able to take advantage of the visibility and discovery technology we pioneered.”

Nutanix Flow is built into the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS, and today provides:

Network Visualization — giving application owners an at-a-glance view of network performance and availability per application

Application-Centric Microsegmentation — providing granular control and governance for all application traffic to protect sensitive workloads and data

Service Insertion and Chaining — integrating additional network functions from multiple Nutanix Ready ecosystem partners into a single networking policy

Network Automation — streamlining and automating common network configuration changes, like VLAN configuration or load balancer policy modifications, based on application lifecycle events for VMs running on Nutanix AHV

To accelerate infrastructure innovation and agility, Gartner recommends that infrastructure and operations leaders “make network automation, visualization and optimization capabilities an integral part of their selection process by prioritizing vendors that provide an application-specific view of cluster performance.”

“Nutanix Flow completes Nutanix’s mission to make IT infrastructure invisible,” said Sunil Potti, Chief Product & Development Officer, Nutanix. “As we looked to simplify networking, we took a modern approach to enable visibility and control for both enterprise apps and next-generation cloud-native services. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS now converges the compute, storage, virtualization and networking resources to power nearly any application, at any scale.”

Availability

Nutanix Flow is available now. Additional network visibility and app discovery capabilities based on recently-acquired Netsil technology are in development.

For more information about Nutanix Flow, check out our video, visit the Nutanix websiteor read more at the Nutanix blog.

About Nutanix

Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business. Companies around the world use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software to bring one-click application management and mobility across public, private and distributed edge clouds so they can run any application at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost of ownership. The result is organizations that can rapidly deliver a high-performance IT environment on demand, giving application owners a true cloud-like experience. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on Twitter @nutanix.

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Nutanix Beam

Simplify Multi-Cloud Optimization & Management

Beam is a multi-cloud optimization service delivered as part of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS. Beam provides organizations with deep visibility and rich analytics detailing cloud consumption patterns, along with one-click cost optimization across their cloud environments

Cloud Confidence

Nutanix Beam provides you deep visibility into your multi-cloud environment and ability to optimize cloud with one-click. Beam identifies underutilized and unused cloud services and provides convenient single click remediation suggestions, empowering cloud operators to realize cost savings immediately. With Beam, you can set policies that continuously maintain high levels of cloud cost efficiency.

Cloud Control

Visualize and control consumption of cloud resources across departments and groups, and enforce policies based on allocated budgets. Beam provides cloud operators and business owners with appropriate tools and controls to track all cloud spend, map consumption to business units and enhance cloud optimization.

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Unified Data Protection for .NEXT Generation Workloads and Nutanix AHV

Guest Authors: Randy Serafini, Manager, Product Marketing and Charles Butler, Sr. Principal Product Manager

Managing the proliferation and performance demands of modern, next-gen workloads can be daunting as businesses continue to accelerate their transition to the multi-cloud world. Key to the success of this transformation is the modernization of infrastructures and workloads with agile, next generation, scale-out architectures. This includes protecting your most precious asset… your data.

Virtual machine infrastructure is one of the key components of today’s modern data centers and enabling these modern, multi-cloud environments is the growing popularity of hyperconverged, scale-out infrastructures and the simplified user experience that a solution like Nutanix delivers. The challenge then becomes: how do you protect these high-performance, highly scalable hyperconverged platforms with a solution that can dynamically scale as they scale in order to meet the increasing demands of SLA performance. A modern data protection approach for these workloads needs to have the following capabilities: automatic data discovery; agentless scale-out deployment model; and API based for rapid deployment and download simplicity.

NetBackup Parallel Streaming delivered with NetBackup 8.1 was designed precisely to meet these data protection demands for modern workloads that are built on scale out or web-scale architectures and can scale to 100s of petabytes. Innovated and patented by Veritas, this new agentless, parallel streaming technology delivers data protection for modern scale-out and hyper-converged workloads like no other solution. Workloads can now be backed up and protected with extreme efficiency by leveraging the power of dynamically scaling multiple backup hosts in parallel. Let’s take a closer look to see how Parallel Streaming works.

NetBackup Parallel Streaming consists of 3 logical blocks: Core NetBackup Capabilities, Parallel Streaming Plug-Ins, and a modern workload hosted on Nutanix. Core NetBackup capabilities are the functions that NetBackup performs that are common to the backup and recovery operations to protect any given workload including Nutanix. Workload independent functions such as job scheduling, management, reporting, cataloging and the user interface are serviced out of this layer. The core Parallel Streaming Technology sits in this layer and can be thought of as an API interface that enables the communication and management of backup and recovery operations with emerging workloads.

NetBackup Parallel Streaming plug-ins provide the mechanism for integrating with the Nutanix RESTful API interface. Plug-ins are specific to a given workload and provide the capabilities to perform workload specific functions such as data discovery, snapshotting, and data transfer to and from a workload. NetBackup abstracts itself from workload specific implementations by leveraging Veritas developed plug-ins that bridge NetBackup’s API interface with the Nutanix RESTful APIs.

A modern workload, in this case Nutanix, is the 3rd layer of NetBackup Parallel Streaming.A key requirement is that a modern workload must implement a set of RESTful APIs that can be used by NetBackup to coordinate workload specific capabilities needed for backup, recovery and data transfer operations. NetBackup, via the Parallel Streaming plug-ins, initiate the proper set of API calls to AOS that will prepare data for backup and then coordinate the movement of that data to any number of NetBackup supported backup destinations.

NetBackup Parallel Streaming delivers a revolutionary new backup and recovery technology for large, scale-out, multi-node cluster environments which was designed using the same principles on which scale-out architectures are modeled. NetBackup can easily and dynamically scale along with your Nutanix investment with agentless backup and recovery. Visit www.netbackup.com to learn more about all the new capabilities now available with NetBackup 8.1.

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The Virtuous Circle of Corporate Culture

Reputation matters. Especially for fast growing companies like ours. When you are hiring fast, it helps to have your good reputation precede you.

That’s why we are really happy to have been named one of the top public cloud companies to work for in 2018 by Glassdoor and Battery Ventures. The report, which also names the top 25 private cloud companies to work for begins, “Just how important is company culture and employee happiness in the current, ultra-competitive tech economy? In a word, very.”

And we couldn’t be prouder of ours.

The report interviewed current employees of cloud companies in the U.S. and measured feedback on employee satisfaction, CEO ratings and future company outlook. We scored well enough to be #7 of the top 25 cloud companies in the United States.

But don’t take it from me. Like Glassdoor and Battery Ventures did when they researched their report, just listen to our employees:

In fact, we are so proud of our culture, we have a philosophy about keeping the door wide open for employees who decide they want to leave. Our family will forever extend to our current employees, our former employees and our “boomerang” employees; the employees who leave but then come back. Our CEO, Dheeraj Pandey, says that our high rate of boomerangs is a “great test of our authentic culture.”

We’re glad our reputation precedes us, but that doesn’t mean we still won’t continue to work on making sure our values of “hungry, humble, honest” ring true every day.

By Aaron Bean CHRO, Nutanix

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X-Ray Vision as Nutanix Goes Open Source

Nutanix is now proudly announcing that X-Ray’s test scenario code will be made open-source under the MIT license.

Nutanix launched X-Ray in 2017 with a simple premise: to enable organizations to understand, with a high degree of certainty, how various hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms would perform for their mix of applications and use cases under real-world conditions. This ability to test workloads in this manner distinguishes X-Ray from the myriad of pure play performance benchmarking tools already available.

The idea of examining HCI platforms from this different perspective, where real-world test scenarios are run to see the impact on application performance was discussed in the recent blog “Chaos Monkey for the Enterprise Cloud”.

X-Ray has been steadily enhanced since launch, adding to its list of supported HCI platforms and hypervisors while also increasing the number and variety of test scenarios, resulting in a very comprehensive HCI testing app.

Why is Nutanix open-sourcing X-Ray?

There are two main reasons:

First, one question that frequently comes up is — as a vendor-created app, why should anyone trust X-Ray’s results more than any other product? It’s a fair question. Our initial response last year (2017) was to provide the ability to run any user-defined custom test scenarios. If the default set of tests are not to your liking, or don’t cater to specific test requirements, simply edit the existing ones, or create new ones. Test scenarios can be exported, customised, shared and imported as needed.

This year, we decided to take it a step further. By open-sourcing the X-Ray source code, organizations can see for themselves exactly what it is designed to do. More importantly, test cases will run on the leading HCI platforms ‘as-is’ with no tweaking or performance tuning.

Second, we hope that other organizations and individual developers will be encouraged to further enhance X-Ray for additional HCI platforms, hypervisors and test scenarios. Open-sourcing also opens up the potential for external code developers to produce additional enhancements.

What does open-sourcing X-Ray really mean?

Starting with the next release of X-Ray, to be announced shortly, X-Ray’s Curie source code will be made available on GitLab under the MIT license.

The Nutanix X-Ray core component Curie interprets and executes scenarios against virtualized infrastructures, interfacing with the infrastructure under test to deploy VMs, manage workloads, and introduce other events such as snapshots, migrations, and failures.

Anyone will be able to download and view this source code as well as submit code merge requests for consideration in future releases.

Where will it be open sourced?

When posted externally, all repositories will be at https://gitlab.com/nutanix with appropriate project names and documentation links.

Submitting code merge requests

GitLab has good documentation that covers creating a merge request which should be followed by anyone wanting to submit code. Code merge requests that follow the current standards and direction of the project will have the greatest potential of being accepted.

What does it mean moving forward?

Nutanix remains firmly committed to developing and enhancing X-Ray. We have an aggressive roadmap planned and will continue to provide features and support for the branches of code released by Nutanix.

Open-source customers and vendors can view the code, and can choose to help further develop it with their own specific needs in mind.

Learn more about Nutanix X-Ray at www.nutanix.com/xray and engage with the community at https://next.nutanix.com/nutanix-x-ray-18.

Nutanix wants all organizations to be successful with their HCI deployments, and X-Ray aims to help just that!

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Nutanix Beam – Multi-Cloud Governance At Your Fingertips

Today we proudly announce the general availability of Nutanix Beam, a new software as a service (SaaS) offering that delivers multi-cloud governance as part of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS. This announcement marks another significant step in our commitment to enable organizations to deliver a multi-cloud strategy as part of their digital transformation journey.

The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS already enables organizations to automate application provisioning and lifecycle management across multiple clouds with Calm, and empowers end-users with self-service using the Nutanix Marketplace. Beam complements our approach by adding business-level insights to deliver governance and cost optimization across multiple environments.

Pressing Challenges in A Multi-Cloud World

In conversations with customers we often hear of key challenges organizations face incorporating public cloud assets into their portfolio. Many application owners and technology budget owners are surprised by the unexpectedly high costs of their cloud services and find it challenging to achieve adequate usage governance across the organization. To prevent uncontrolled cloud spend, and to enable more accurate resource planning, cloud teams often seek better visibility and control of actual service consumption throughout their cloud environments.

One-Click Optimization Driven by Machine Intelligence

Nutanix Beam provides organizations with deep visibility and rich analytics detailing cloud consumption patterns, along with one-click cost optimization across their cloud environments. Cloud operators are empowered with intelligent planning capabilities to make informed purchasing decisions based on application needs and business objectives.

The launch of Beam is based on the acquisition of Minjar and the integration of Botmetric – a highly rated cloud management service that has already managed $1B in cloud spend – into the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS. In this post, I’d like to share a few common ways customers have been benefiting from the service:

Cloud Visibility and Cost Optimization

Beam tracks cost consumption across all cloud resources at both aggregate and granular levels – per application workload, team and business unit. This type of visibility helps IT and cloud teams identify the cost drivers of applications across multiple clouds and departments, and gain insight into future projections of costs across services and teams.

Nutanix Beam is unique in that it not only identifies underutilized and unused cloud services, but also provides one-click remediation, empowering cloud operators to realize cost savings immediately and set policies to continuously maintain high levels of cloud efficiency. Often, old snapshots, unused volumes or idle RDS instances drive significant costs, so operators can simply eliminate these resources in one-click as shown below.

Centralized Financial Governance

As cloud environments grow, the need to centralize control across multiple teams becomes critical. Cloud operators and business owners need a systematic way to map consumption to business units.

Beam visualizes resources by groups and departments, empowering cloud operators to manage their usage and enforce policies based on allocated budgets. In some cases, this leads to better accountability by identifying which teams are driving cloud spend and ensuring that owners can make data-driven decisions. In addition, Beam provides policy-based reporting and chargeback, so that teams can ensure consumption is within budget and aligns with business objectives.

Intelligent Consumption Planning

Cloud providers offer multiple purchasing options that can yield significant savings when utilized effectively. However, navigating the complexity of multiple options across a number of cloud accounts using variety of services can be challenging. Beam makes this planning process easy using machine intelligence and recommendation algorithms that analyze workload patterns and continuously suggest optimal purchasing decisions by quantifying the potential cost saving of moving from one model to another. For example, in the below you can see Beam providing insight into on-demand cost vs. reserve instance (RI) and showing RI savings depending on 1 vs. 3 year agreement – simplifying this decision significantly.

Interested in trying Beam for yourself? Sign up for free trial at www.nutanix.com/beam

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Nutanix Era: Databases Made Simple

Nutanix first made datacenter infrastructure invisible with enterprise cloud built on hyperconverged infrastructure. The company next transformed and simplified virtualization from stand-alone product to feature. Today, with Nutanix Era, Nutanix announces a revolution in provisioning and managing databases. Nutanix Era is expected to be available in the second half of 2018.

The Challenge with Legacy Database Environments

IDC’s 2016 report on Copy Data Management (CDM) showed that 77% of the organizations surveyed have more than 200 database instances while 82% have more than 10 copies of each instance. The typical database administrator (DBA) must provision, manage, refresh, restore and perform other database operations for 2,000 database instances. The complexity and time-consuming nature of managing all these instances is further exacerbated when the databases run on a wide variety of legacy software and hardware technologies.

Provisioning each database requires considerations such as configuring compute as a single VM or multiple VMs in a cluster. Storage provisioning often requires multiple disk groups to handle different kinds of database data such as data files, software, online logs, logfiles, local backups, etc. Once the DBA identifies the compute and storage and has a ready environment, the database server setup process starts with installing the database software. A clustered system requires installation, configuration and testing of additional components. The DBA must also protect the database by configuring backup policies requiring integration with different backup software and hardware technologies.

Cloning and data refresh processes are complex as well. Cloning requires backup set identification along with any log files that are needed for clone creation. The DBA must first locate the backups (tapes or secondary sources) and then perform a complex recovery process that includes setting up the database server, connecting to the database, restoring database backups, and finally replaying the database logs to a specific time. Then the DBA must regularly refresh all these database copies and clones with the source data to be useful. Now imagine scaling that effort to hundreds of databases to support different groups (test/dev, BI, QA, etc.) within the organization.

Nutanix Era

Nutanix Era is a suite of software which automates and simplifies database management, bringing one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and lifecycle management (LCM). Starting with Copy Data Management (CDM) as its first offering, Nutanix Era enables database admins to provision, clone, refresh and restore their databases to any point in time. Through a rich, but simple to use, UI and CLI, they can restore to the latest application-consistent transaction.

One-Click time machine: Leveraging Nutanix space and time-efficient snapshots and application-centric APIs, Nutanix Era lowers CapEx costs for enterprise customers who are managing many copies of databases.

One-Click database clone/refresh: Eliminates the time consuming, complex process of database clone/refresh. Allows admins to create database clones/refresh to any point in time in just a few minutes, saving immensely on enterprise OpEx.

Your DBAs (and CFO) will Love You

In summary, Nutanix Era automates database provisioning and lifecycle management – slashing both DBA time and the cost of managing databases with traditional technologies. Nutanix Era initially supports Oracle and Postgres databases, but will expand over time to include an increasing number of popular databases, starting with Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL. With Nutanix Era, your DBAs will be delighted by getting back their weekends, and your CIOs contented with lowered TCO of their Database estate.

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Nutanix Introduces Application Mobility from Public to Private Clouds

When Xtract for VMs launched just seven months ago, it provided Nutanix customers with a simple and granular method to onboard existing workloads to on-premises Nutanix Enterprise Clouds. The ease and speed in which migrations are completed reduces the time taken to onboard workloads, providing customers with a short time-to-value. This has resulted in great customer adoption with Xtract being used by hundreds of organizations to migrate in excess of 12,000 VMs, based on a variety of Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems.

Today we proudly announce the next phase of Xtract’s application mobility story, enabling VM migrations from public cloud, available in a future release.

What VM migrations are being announced?

With the next release of Xtract, Nutanix adds Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a source for VM migrations from the public cloud to an on-premises Nutanix Enterprise Cloud.

Why introduce VM migrations from AWS?

To build or rent is a question all organizations ask themselves, and even when it appears easier and cheaper to rent infrastructure, a public cloud first strategy can prove both time consuming and costly when business priorities change and there is need to migrate VMs elsewhere, to another public cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

Examples of organizations that chose to migrate from public cloud deployments are not difficult to come by, and include names such as Facebook and Dropbox, however similar migration challenges exist regardless of organizational size. Recent high profile public cloud outages and latency issues only add to organizational fears over security and compliance.

Nutanix believes organizations should have freedom to manage hybrid cloud complexity with ease, without lock-in or spiraling costs.

How are migrations managed?

Xtract for VMs has been designed to simply add the AWS VM migration feature as a new source for VM migrations, adding to VMware ESXi used for on-premises migrations to AHV. Architecting Xtract in this manner means that the migration processes remains the same as it did before.

Adding an AWS connection source is very simple, requiring only an appropriate friendly name, your AWS access key ID, and AWS secret access key.

Once connected to your AWS account, the number of available regions and VMs contained in those regions is visible.

The process for creating a migration plan is now the same, requiring the same few steps as for other on-premises migration plans, including VM(s) selection.

The network mapping from the source to target occurs in the same manner as for on-premises migrations, and then within a few clicks, the migration plan is complete and can be executed.

Once a migration plan is executed, the initial data-seeding starts, taking as long as necessary dependent on the volume of data and connection speeds. This process doesn’t impact the source VM which remains up and running.

Once all migrated VMs have been synchronised, they remain in-sync with periodic delta updates until such time you choose to cutover to the new target VM. Control of the cutover process is a key feature of Xtract enabling businesses to choose when is most appropriate to cutover, and helping to minimise any VM outage.

Nutanix testing has shown t2.micro instances to take as little as twenty minutes to complete, with the cutover being as short as one minute.

Can I migrate all workloads?

One of the more difficult aspects of public cloud migrations are the dependencies formed to cloud-native services. As such, for this initial release, standalone EC2 instances with attached EBS volumes are supported.

When can I start migrating AWS VMs to Nutanix Enterprise Cloud?

Nutanix is announcing this new public cloud VM migration feature just as the Xtract product team is preparing for an early access release, and we are looking for a small number of customers willing to participate in it. If you have an AWS public cloud presence and are willing to participate in an initial 30-60 minute exploratory call to discuss your requirements, please email xtractfromaws@nutanix.com.

Learn more about Nutanix Xtract at www.nutanix.com/xtract, and join in with the community discussion here.

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Go with the Flow

It may seem like an overused idiom, but we think it’s the perfect title for a blog post on Nutanix networking and Flow. Today the journey is well underway. AOS 5.6 released in April and contained VM microsegmentation to increase application security and Flow was officially announced as the vehicle for connecting and securing any application (VM, Container) on any cloud (Public, Private, Hybrid). Nutanix simplified traditional data center infrastructure with HCI and now we bring that same “one click” simplicity to networking and security. In this post, We are going to lay out the journey for Flow at Nutanix, from its headwaters in AHV, winding through microsegmentation, touch on some of the exciting places we will take Flow based on technology from our recent Netsil acquisition and even a gaze over the horizon at our multi-cloud future.

Headwaters: Virtualization for the Enterprise Cloud OS

The story of Flow in Nutanix goes back to AHV, our native hypervisor based on Linux KVM. The foundation of our networking and security technology is based on OVS – an open source virtual switch with proven scale and performance. Since the early days, OVS has been known for rapid innovation and proven scale. We chose OVS because we have always had big plans around networking and the important role it plays in virtualization – even more so for modern distributed applications, hybrid or multi-cloud environments. OVS provided a robust platform to handle our immediate requirements and a rich set of features and functions to develop for the future. Starting with AHV in 2015, OVS has been used under the covers to provide VM virtual networking and support features like our innovative IP address management (IPAM) that is built right into AHV.

Are we there yet?

VM networking in AHV was only the beginning. As of AOS 5.6 released in April, we officially released the first set of features in Flow with the laser focus on making applications more secure and doing it with our “one click” philosophy of simplifying IT. AOS 5.6 includes VM Microsegmentation and Network Service Insertion – all managed centrally through Prism. Flow requires no additional components (management or control) and works seamlessly with our existing Prism management and Acropolis data plane model that our customers love.

Application-Centric Security

We all know that the concept of VM microsegmentation or East-West firewalling isn’t new, so what is different about our approach and what do we mean by App-Centric Security?

Our approach to microsegmentation doesn’t start with networking – in fact it is agnostic to how the underlying network is configured or built. Unlike traditional approaches where you are required to start planning with logical networking as a path to microsegmentation – Nutanix has no such requirements or complexities. We allow you to incorporate microsegmentation with Flow without any changes to existing network configuration – keeping things simple and providing admins and architects to focus on business or application requirements. Our approach starts with visualization and policy and this is where being “app-centric” comes from.

Being “application-centric” is about three key attributes:

Policy framework with inherent understanding of applications

Grouping that is based on how developers build their applications (tiering)

Full visual insight into interaction between different entities inside the application – to eliminate any guesswork in planning and reduce errors that could impact availability.

We firmly believe that the only way to create effective security policy is to start with a solid understanding of what is being secured. In this case, applications. The key is logical grouping of VMs and visibility. Starting with a new management construct in Prism, called Categories, Flow allows the writer to group VMs logically based on some classification. For example, high level groups could be development and production or categories could be used for application tiers like web servers or databases.

In the Flow policy process, once categories are created, policy is placed on categories…NOT on the member VMs. This is an important distinction as it separates the policy and groups from more dynamic network identifiers (i.e. IP addresses). This is a huge reduction in the typical complexity involved with policy creation. The responsibility for understanding end points is removed from the human policy writers and left to the virtualization platform which always knows that information and can automatically update/change policy.

As part of this process Flow includes the ability to visualize the interactions between VMs in categories (Applications). Thus providing another method to simplify the policy exercise. Imagine removing all the guesswork and knowing exactly how each part of an application communicates with the others. That’s what Flow provides – application-centric security based on a unique policy model and granular enforcement via microsegmentation.

Beyond Microsegmentation – Security and more…

We are very aware that there are cases where additional functions are required. For this reason Flow also includes the ability to leverage the same granular policy described above to redirect or tap the “flows” between VMs into other functions or services. Those can be home grown or provided by one of our ecosystem partners. Common use cases are services like third party Firewall Appliances, IPS/IDS for security, and Packet Monitoring among others.

For more details and specific use cases with examples, download our Flow Tech Note.

What’s around the next bend? (Flow + Netstil)

I suspect that what brought you to this blog was some announcements that came out our .NEXT conference in New Orleans. Back in March we acquired a company called Netsil. Cool fact, Netsil is “listen” spelled backwards. Listen is very appropriate, Netsil technology starts by “listening to” the interactions between VMs and services. It uses advanced stream based analytics to provide detailed maps (think Google Maps) of the interactions that essentially make up applications. Netsil tech is going to find its way into multiple areas of the Enterprise Cloud OS, but for Flow it will provide some truly awesome enhancements. We explained the unique policy model we use in Flow above, now combine that with mapping, discovery, and application context from Netsil and you get something truly unique and even more app-centric.

With Netsil, we will automatically discover your applications running inside VMs, understand your application topology to automatically assign categories and recommend (and create) security policies for you, taking the guesswork and complexity out and replacing it with “one click”. Expect to see the combination of Flow and Netsil technologies to be available in the second half of 2018. For a preview of Netsil capabilities,

check out this video

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Where to NEXT? (Multi-Cloud)

We have big plans for Flow as we build out more features and services that are part of our focus on running any and all applications in the Enterprise Cloud OS. Expect to see Flow expand into the cloud as part of ensuring that the same application-centric security found on-prem is available everywhere. Our goal is to provide features and functions in support of moving workloads from on-prem to public cloud and back with Flow will provide a consistent security policy and connectivity so that you can operate you multi-cloud environment with One-Click.

Flow is available for purchase or evaluation today. Take a look.

Disclaimer: This blog may contain links to external websites that are not part of Nutanix.com. Nutanix does not control these sites and disclaims all responsibility for the content or accuracy of any external site. Our decision to link to an external site should not be considered an endorsement of any content on such site.

Forward-Looking Disclaimer: This blog includes forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements concerning our plans and expectations relating to product features and technology that are under development or in process and capabilities of such product features and technology and our plans to introduce product features in future releases. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts, and instead are based on our current expectations, estimates, opinions and beliefs. The accuracy of such forward-looking statements depends upon future events, and involves risks, uncertainties and other factors beyond our control that may cause these statements to be inaccurate and cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied by such statements, including, among others: failure to develop, or unexpected difficulties or delays in developing, new product features or technology on a timely or cost-effective basis; delays in or lack of customer or market acceptance of our new product features or technology; and other risks detailed in our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2017, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this presentation and, except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect actual results or subsequent events or circumstances.

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Hacking for Good

On location, we kicked off .NEXT with an inaugural hackathon, where 14 teams competed not only for the bragging rights of 1st place and a cash prize, but also to designate a nonprofit where Nutanix would donate $2500 on behalf of the winner and two runner ups. Jason Langone, who ran the hackathon, commented that “the groups were incredibly excited about the donation, and some of the participants were hacking for social good.

In fact, team “Virtually Amazing” came up with a clever way that Nutanix products could be used during off hours to help organizations with compute power.” (Read more here for full details on the hackathon). The team “We Did it All for the Cookies” won by hyperconverging the competition’s three themes into one: Life, Work and Play. They leveraged their Apple iWatch to interact with the Nutanix API, and also deployed an application shim on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

As a result, we are pleased to make a donation on their behalf to Ronald McDonald House of Seattle and to PAWS Atlanta, and onerareboy.com (ifopa.org) on behalf of the runner ups: Team Copper and Team Not That Special.

Empowering and Celebrating Women in Tech

On Wednesday, we had a “Celebrating the Women of .NEXT Luncheon” with nearly 130 attendees – double the attendance of last year. Sarah Robb O’Hagan, CEO of Flywheel Sports, captured the feeling in the room when she said how inspirational this group of trail blazers was to her. She was joined by Sue Bostrom, Nutanix’s first female board member, and Sherry Lautenbach, SVP of Nutanix Americas Sales.

These accomplished professionals motivated the room with direct career advice and a call for both women and men to work together to solve diversity issues. We all left the luncheon with new business contacts and great energy to go forth and make an impact.

Companies Making a Difference

We also celebrated our customers’ and partners’ .heart initiatives as part of the .NEXT Award program. The .heart Giving Back Award recognized companies that are simultaneously making a positive impact on their communities and the world. This award honored a socially responsible organization that has dedicated time, resources, and energy toward STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics) programs and diversity initiatives in order to foster a passion for technology and education.

Congratulations to our three customer finalists: GOAL Academy, Starbucks and JetBlue, and to JetBlue for taking home the award! And to our three Partner finalists: HYCU, Zenoss and Commvault, and to Commvault for taking home the award.

.heart-felt activities on the Expo Floor

On the expo floor in the .heart booth we featured four outstanding organizations: Girls in Tech, Workforce Opportunity Services, Women’s Sports Foundation and The Foundation For Hospital Art. Along with our exhibitors, we distributed “Share Your .heart” $1 tokens to participants for donation to their choice of featured organizations. We exceeded our goal and raised $10,800 – thanks to the enthusiasm and generosity of our .NEXT community.

For people looking to give their right brain some exercise, we offered up a unique artistic experience. Attendees were encouraged to stop by and paint as little or as much of a blank mural as they wanted. As a result—along with the monetary donation—we are donating two beautiful murals to brighten local hospital rooms.

There will be more opportunities to Share Your .heart at .NEXT On Tour events over the coming months and in .NEXT London in November.

As always – thank you to all those who supported and participated in these events. We couldn’t have done it without you!

To learn more about .heart, visit https://www.nutanix.com/company/social-responsibility/