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Nutanix announces Beam SaaS service integration into Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

The Beam service that Nutanix announced at their spring customer event was designed for the public cloud. The integration into the Nutanix private cloud, available by the end of the calendar year will allow customers to determine whether the private cloud or a specific public cloud makes the most sense for a given workload.

Nutanix completes SAP HANA certification process by meeting criteria for HANA production deployments

Nutanix follows up their certification on SAP HANA non-production environments in June with the expected – but still very important – announcement that they have now been certified for SAP HANA production environments as well.

Nutanix receives SAP certification for SAP HANA in non-production environments

While this in itself is huge news for Nutanix and their channel partners, the goal is to have HANA certified for production environments in the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS with their 5.9 release.

Nutanix to add three new developer-focused services as part of enterprise cloud strategy

The provision of new object storage, compute and marketplace services to developers is part of a continuing Nutanix strategy to elevate itself from providing HCI infrastructure to providing the whole stack.

Nutanix launches unique hybrid cloud offering with Xi Cloud Services, Nutanix Calm

The cloud services have the same OS as Nutanix’s on-prem software, which provides major benefits for customers – and significant new opportunities for partners.

Nutanix announces new software validations for HPE, Cisco servers

Nutanix also announced Nutanix Go, a program that allows acquisition of their appliances on a cloud-like purchase model, but for now, it’s only available in the U.S.

Nutanix expands customer choice in server platforms, validating its software on Cisco UCS

The interesting thing here is that Nutanix has expanded the Cisco support on its own, without Cisco being involved in the validation process. That supports the two companies’ earlier stated position that no partnership where Nutanix would be sold on UCS was in the works. This move may, however, indicate that Nutanix is trying to create momentum towards it.

Nutanix targets service provider market with new FlexPrice purchasing program

Nutanix is making a major initiative targeting service provider customers, which sees it introduce a program that lets them pay for their infrastructure by subscription, as they are paid themselves.

Nutanix makes ‘biggest announcement ever’ with platform for simpler, cheaper virtualization

Acropolis combines Nutanix’s flagship Distributed Storage Fabric with their own hypervisor and a new app mobility fabric which will decouple apps from their hypervisor, let users use the Nutanix hypervisor, and massively cut their virtualization costs. Prism complements it with simple management. Acropolis and Prism make up the new Xtreme Computing Platform.

Nutanix sees massive potential in rollout of Dell XC appliances with Nutanix software

Greg Smith, senior director of product and technical marketing at Nutanix.

Nutanix, which despite its massive success is still a startup, gets key validation from Dell partnering with them, and also greatly expands their channel and routes to market.