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Nutanix Unified Storage™ is now a leader in AI storage performance using the latest MLPerf™ Storage v1.0 benchmark, with a 2x performance improvement over last year’s result, establishing NUS as a gold standard for AI and machine learning applications.

Source Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-unified-storage-wins-the-mlperf-storage-v10-benchmark

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Jirah Cox 

Artificial Intelligence in the datacenter is one of the more exciting announcements from Nutanix in the last couple years and the partnership with NVIDIA is growing.  In this episode, we walk through what it takes to run NVIDIA Inferencing Server on Nutanix and how that works with real-world implications that you can test yourself. 

Reference Blog: https://www.nutanix.dev/2024/01/15/running-nvidia-triton-inference-server-on-nutanix/

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox 

This week, we talk with Subbiah Sundaram from HYCU, one of the strongest Nutanix ecosystem partners, about the recent innovations and protections for data hosted in Nutanix services.  HYCU was first to market with support for AHV backups, the collaborated with Nutanix to develop backup APIs for Nutanix Files and most recently, HYCU announced support for Nutanix Database Services or NDB, during the .NEXT conference in Barcelona. 

This podcast is based on HYCU's Blog Post, Empower Nutanix Data Protection with new HYCU innovation -
https://www.hycu.com/blog/empower-nutanix-data-security-with-hycu

Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra 
Guest: Subbiah Sundaram, HYCU

This week is a special episode, recorded live from the Nutanix .NEXT 2024 event in Barcelona, Spain.  On Tuesday, Nutanix held a keynote that unwrapped new capabilities in their software platform, focusing on AI and Cloud Native applications along with extending the reach of Nutanix AOS onto native cloud services in AWS.  We will recap all the major announcements from new releases and software to hardware partnerships and enhanced on-prem AI capabilities.  

Host: Phil Sellers, XenTegra
Co-Host: Harvey Green, XenTegra-GOV
Co-Host: Jirah Cox, Nutanix

The pivot to a hybrid multicloud environment must form part of a CIO’s infrastructure strategy to take full advantage of next-generation solutions.

The key for CIO’s and other C-level executives is to plan for and enable this critical eventuality in their enterprise. The compelling business case for adopting the shift to hybrid multicloud is highlighted in the sixth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) report.

The findings of the ECI report reveal a notable increase in the planned deployment of hybrid multicloud infrastructure, which spans private IT infrastructure (on-premises and hosted), public clouds and edge locations.

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox 

Today we are proud to announce the general availability of Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK). NDK extends Nutanix Cloud Platform infrastructure capabilities to application-centric data services for containerized workloads. With NDK 1.0, platform engineers can make it incredibly easy for developers to build and run containerized workloads without scrambling for storage management resources.

Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-nutanix-data-services-for-kubernetes

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

Building a fully customized solution from scratch can be complicated. It requires researching various hardware and software products from multiple vendors and verifying that they offer everything you want and work together.

You must also make several detailed design decisions, then evaluate the complete solution for supportability, maintainability and scalability to ensure that it meets your operational needs, can adapt to changing requirements, and offers a compelling TCO and ROI.

At Nutanix, we understand that one size doesn’t fit all. To provide the right solution for your needs, we offer various technical solution artifacts: Tech Notes (TN), Best Practices Guides (BPGs), Reference Architectures (RAs), and Nutanix Validated Designs (NVDs).

Blog Link: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-validated-designs-blueprints-for-success by Ketan Mota

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

In the first iteration of Nutanix Cloud Clusters, your built-in NVMe storage was the only capacity you could tap into.  With Nutanix's recent announcement of Just-In-Time storage with AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) you can now customize the amount of storage you need in a cluster with expansion capabilities.  

In this episode, we talk about the news from a blog post on nutanix.com posted by Dewayne Lessner about EBS with Nutanix Cloud Clusters.

https://www.nutanix.com/blog/just-in-time-cloud-storage-for-nutanix-cloud-clusters

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

Deploying a VDI environment for a globally distributed workforce, BYOD, hot desk environments and call centers is complex and is hard to manage. However, the storage that supports VDI to run VMs and unstructured user profile data need not be.

Exponential growth of unstructured data is putting a tremendous strain on the legacy three-tier architecture of VDI environments. Whether it is a single user VDI or a multi-user remote desktop service, deteriorating VDI performance, complexity in managing storage, protecting user data against cyberthreats and ransomware are key challenges. This is especially true with a growing remote workforce and user data.

Blog post: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/unified-data-services-platform-simplifies-vdi

Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

We recently commissioned International Data Corporation (IDC) to evaluate the use of Nutanix Objects Storage for modern, data-intensive workloads. IDC examined the evolution of Object Storage which has ranged from cold data repositories for backups and archives to newer, high-performance object stores for data-intensive workloads. The study also involves insightful interviews with Nutanix customers who are using Nutanix Objects Storage for analytics workloads.

https://www.nutanix.com/blog/modern-data-intensive-workloads-requiring-high-performance

Host: Phil Sellers (@infraphilip)
Co-Host: Harvey Green III
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers