Month: June 2016

Nutanix AOS 4.7 Immediately Available

What's New in AOS 4.7? Some of these enhancements were announced at .Next last week. Here's a full list of what's new in AOS 4.7. It is available for immediate download on the Nutanix support portal. Acropolis Block Services Acropolis Block Services (ABS) provides highly available and high performance block...

.Next 2016: Don’t leave behind Baremetal Workloads

Presenters: Mike McGhee (NTX), Tabrez Memon (NTX), Tim Issaacs (NTX) Why bare metal? Oracle Licensing, performance perception, Legacy apps (Sun, IBM, HPUX), investment protection High Performance Databases - a few times you might not virtualize Licensing cost Virtualized limits for max DB (SAP HANA, etc.) 3-tier applications  Run your 3-tier...

.Next 2016: Business Continuity for Tier-1 Apps

Presenters: Partha R (NTX), Mike McGhee (NTX), Ryan Sheldon (AMGEN) Tier-1 apps are different for different customers. Could be ERP, EPOS, email, etc. Need to be prepared for the worst: IT Productivity, recovery, end-user productivity, business disruption, lost revenue, etc. Data protection requirements: RPO, RTO Understand consistency: Application consistency (e.g....

.Next 2016: Day 1 First General Session

Here we are, at the second Nutanix .Next conference! Last year it was in beautiful Miami, and this year it's in hot Las Vegas. I'm not sure which is hotter, the weather or our announcements. Like last year, this event is sold out and more than double the size! I'll...