In another movie beyond the bounds of strictly Hyper-converced infrastructure (hci)Nutanix has launched cloud native aos.
In other words, this is the operating system (OS) that underlies all its its products but available for deployment separete and without the need for a hypervisor. In this way, Nutanix hopes to enable its customers to extend from their core HCI Deplues and to Roll Out, For Example, Kubernetes containerisation on bare metal servers, as well as kubernetes runtemes in the cloud.
Here, The AIM for Nutanix is to Allow Customers to Run What they Want, Anywhere they want. This, Said Marketing Vice-Prescent Lee Caswell, is distinct from the approach of many other suppliers.
“We consider that data and applications will be more distrused over time,” said caswell. “That's actually a different model than any hyperscaler who's trying to concentrate all data and applications into a single cloud. Our view is It's going to be multicloudDistributed applications and data. “
Nutanix was a pioneer of so-called hyper-converged infrastructure, which Saw Compute and Storage Bundled Together in Nodes that Cold Connect in Grid-Like Fore Form Clustes, ofteen White Servers and Storage components scalable independently.
This was a particular Attractive Proposition-Something Like Server-Rand-Storage-in-A-Box-to customers that lacked deep skillsets, as they were related to easyly and scalableable.
The idea that Nutanix Should Allow Containers to Run on its Use of a Hypervisor Somewhat Goes Against The Original Principle It Pioneered. But it announced elsewhere at this week's event that customers can now use pure storage flasharray arrays as external storage to its hci nodes.
All of which seems to be a play to extend its market reach, especially amn customers that may be be seeking alternatives to vmware since it was Acquired by broadom and underwent significant licensing changes,
Caswell said: “The way I like to think about cloud native aos is we we we we we we we we we we webs Into Cloud Native, it's not the case that every instance is going to be running ah [Acropolis hypervisor],
“If you think about where we today, with 27,000-plus customers, then you think about getting to the edge, this tends to look like more of a distrusted datacentre today. [Nutanix’s hybrid cloud platform] NC2, we're brings our full stack, including ahv, into the cloud. “
Here, Caswell Has in Mind a Containerized AOS Running on, For Example, Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and Providing Data Services Such as Snapshots, Replication and disaster Recovery, All Whovery Requiring use of the acropolis hypervisor.
“It goes back to the Architectural Advantage of aos being Architected Independently of a Hypervisor,” He said. “And so now we can containerise it and run it directly on the kubernetes run's in the public cloud providers and our data services.”
Caswell Added: “And if you look at the edge and how it is going to evolve over the next five years, my expectation is we're going to see edege that! Farm, or an oil rig, or in MRI CENTRES. And these could be that they're container only, and so you've got the opportunity now, for the first time, that hypervisor is optional.
“Sure, you could run our existing stack, but you need a three-node cluster right to start, or you Cold Start Taking Cloud Native Aos and Get Down to Smaller Form Factors In Ae Vry Cost-EFFECTTVE MANNER.”
Cloud Native Aos is Currently in Early Access on Amazon Eks, and will be generally available this summer. Early Access for on-Premise Containerized Environments on Bare Metal servers is expected to be available by the end of this year.