Nutanix Azure Cloud Connect

Today we announced nutanix cloud connect a capability that enables native hybrid cloud architectures by seamlessly integrating public cloud services such as amazon web services aws with nutanix powered private cloud environments.

Nutanix azure cloud connect. I wanted to dive deeper and spend a little more time around what this announcement means to you and your business. This integration will allow customers to extend key azure services to their nutanix environment including running azure arc servers azure arc containers and azure arc data services adopting azure cloud practices on premises and extending azure security anywhere. Nutanix on azure to boost hybrid cloud experience with an eye towards becoming the hybrid cloud software leader nutanix has formed a new blockbuster partnership with microsoft aimed at providing. Integration with azure arc.

You can read the press release here. By combining it specialists into a single operations group we can now see our end to end environment work collaboratively and make better decisions for the business. With nutanix clusters on azure you will be able to build a hybrid cloud platform along with a unified management plane to manage applications and data across azure and nutanix private cloud. Nutanix clusters on azure will be available for procurement via the azure marketplace allowing you to use your microsoft azure consumption commitment macc azure hybrid benefits and extended security updates.

Cloud connect is intended to be a replication point for disaster recovery purposes. There are no such offerings in azure. Nutanix not only converges technologies their software has enabled us to converge infrastructure teams and opportunities. Nutanix clusters will extend the consumer grade design of nutanix hci software as well as the full nutanix stack to azure.

The nutanix and microsoft azure partnership to deliver hybrid cloud solutions will allow customers to truly unify their nutanix hci and amd epyc processor based private clouds along with azure for burstable and elastic workloads. Yes you do incure compute costs with cloud connect as we run a cvm in the cloud to receive the replication data and then pass that data on to s3 ebs or blob in azure case. Essentially you are using ec2 resources to have an actual cluster on amazon hardware. You re not replicating to another nutanix cluster.

That said we re working on reducing that cost by dynamically switching on an off that cloud cvm in a very future release. What is cloud connect. Nutanix clusters on azure will provide hybrid cloud infrastructure with the flexibility simplicity and cost efficiency needed to run applications easily across private clouds and azure. I would highly recommend engaging support with your inquiry.