Nutanix .NEXT US Announcements

This week, Nutanix .NEXT US is being held in New Orleans. There are five announcements of note:

  • Nutanix Beam: Rebranding of the Botmetric acquisition by Nutanix. This adds Cost Optimization and Visibility, Centralized Financial Governance and Intelligent Consumption Planning to the Nutanix Cloud Management suite.
  • Nutanix Era: Suite of software that adds Database Lifecycle Management to the Nutanix Cloud Management suite. Version 1.0 will support Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
  • Nutanix Flow: Includes incorporation of Netsil acquisition by Nutanix. Provides micro-segmentation, application traffic visualization and service chaining.
  • Nutanix Xtract: new version will support migration from AWS EC2 to Nutanix AHV.
  • Nutanix X-Ray: Automated test platform will be Open Sourced and the latest version supports testing of Microsoft Hyper-V and Storage Spaces. Continue reading Nutanix .NEXT US Announcements

DECM-EA Overview

Earlier this week I defended the Dell EMC Certification Master – Enterprise Architect (DECM-EA) qualification at Dell Technologies World. Unfortunately, I did not pass. A combination of an old design and not being as well versed in Cloud-native technologies as I believed led to that result. My intention is to use a more recent project as my base when I resubmit in 2019.

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Dell Technologies World – PowerEdge announcements

Dell EMC has announced the availability of the PowerEdge “xa” model (Xtreme Analytics, “xd” was Xtreme Density), where the ratio of CPU to GPU can be 1:1. They also previewed the new PowerEdge MX platform, which is slated to be released in 2H 2018. PowerEdge MX is taking the lessons learned from the M1000E and FX2 platforms and ties the emerging technology of Gen-Z to create the next-generation modular platform (Kinetic infrastructure stack – see slides at the end).

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