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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)

Last week, there were a series of exciting new announcements at Nutanix .NEXT US, which was held in New Orleans. With these new offerings, you may be wondering what the latest Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS ecosystem looks like at 40,000ft:

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