Nutanix, enterprise cloud computing giant, has joined hands with Microsoft that will help both the firms in offering a hybrid solution with seamless application, data, and license mobility as well as integrated management across on-premises and Azure environments, making use of Nutanix Clusters on Azure.
The official statement by Nutainix states that keeping the criticality of the nature of work the firm deals with, need for a reliable, scalable and flexible IT infrastructure is a necessity, making a truly unified hybrid cloud solution ideal. Nutanix’s partnership with Microsoft on bridging the private and public clouds with Nutanix Clusters on Azure would help both the companies in leveraging the benefits of hybrid cloud while simplifying the daily operations.
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Commenting on the alliance, Tarkan Maner, Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix said, “With this partnership, Microsoft and Nutanix show our commitment to delivering a true, unified hybrid and multicloud environment.”
He added, “We know customers are looking for solutions to truly — and simply — advance their cloud journey. This partnership helps us deliver a single software stack across public and private clouds, resulting in increased agility, streamlined operations, and significant cost savings.”
Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud and AI, at Microsoft Corporation, said, “Many companies face complexities when managing hybrid cloud environments across private and public clouds. We are excited to collaborate with Nutanix to give customers flexibility and a seamless experience with hybrid Nutanix and Azure solutions.”
This strategic alliance will help both the companies in putting their focus on extending Nutanix hybrid cloud infrastructure to Azure. The partnership will be involving the development of Nutanix-ready nodes on Azure for supporting Nutanix Clusters and services.
“At CarMax we pride ourselves in providing our customers with the best experience in buying or selling a car,” said Ken Shaffer, AVP Technology at CarMax. “We are excited about what the partnership between Nutanix and Microsoft will bring, with Nutanix Clusters for Azure and beyond. I envision this hybrid cloud solution will accelerate our teams’ ability to try new innovative ideas and bring them to our customers, by increasing agility, scalability and reliability while reducing risk.”
“Société Générale has decided to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy,” said Khaled Soudani, Group Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Société Générale.
“To implement such a strategy, companies need partners like Nutanix and Microsoft, who can help them build, operate, secure and monitor a hybrid cloud environment, and effectively deliver on their promises of agility and scalability, while meeting stringent regulatory, security and performance requirements.”
“At United Network for Organ Sharing, technology is vital in support of our mission. Technology makes it possible to match life-saving donor organs to transplant candidates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,” said Tiwan Nicholson, Director of IT Service Operations at United Network for Organ Sharing. “
