Nutanix .NEXT EU 2018 Announcements

This week, Nutanix .NEXT EU 2018 is being held in London. There are six announcements of note:

Nutanix Xtract announcements:
- Xtract 2.0 GA Targeted for FY Q2
  - Support for AWS as a source
  - Performance enhancements to reduce migration time
  - Installation & Upgrade improvements for 1-click experience
- AWS to AHV Customer Preview
  - Migrate running EC2 instances to AHV
  - Mini instance of Xtract deployed on AWS to orchestrate migration
  - User VMs “instrumented” to determine change block tracks and AHV conversion
- Hyper-V to AHV Alpha
  - Win 2012R2 and 2016 supported
  - Alpha in progress and GA targeted for 1H 2019
Nutanix Era announcements:
- Era 1.0 is GA
- Supports Oracle 11.2.0.4 & 12.1.0.2
- Supports PostgreSQL 9.6 & 10.3
Nutanix Karbon announced and in Tech Preview (on-prem Kubernetes)
Nutanix Files:
- Version 3.2 November 2018 GA
  - Nested Shares
  - Larger Shares (140TB/share)
  - SMB signing performance
- Version 3.5 December 2018 GA
  - NFS v3 Early Access
  - Multiprotocol Early Access
  - File Analytics 1.0
  - NFS self-service restore
  - NFS Change File Tracking (CFT)
Xi Leap DR service available in December 2018:
- North America only
- Offered as a cloud service with monthly, 1 year or 3 year subscriptions
- Sold directly and through channel partners
Xi IOT service announced (no other details provided)

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