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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

Today’s business challenges are unprecedented. Companies are dealing with an explosion of data and applications. IT environments are complex and acquisitions of longtime vendors are having the C-suite rethink their install base.

Meanwhile, shadow IT is swiping credit cards simply to get work done which exacerbates the challenge. Lack of flexibility and choice lead business units to solve their problems the best way they can. Unfortunately, some decisions are not easy to change once applications are up and running.

Hyperconverged infrastructure on-premises fixed a lot of issues around responding to the speed of the business and now has made its way into the public cloud over the last five years. Today, a single cloud platform can address security, management and data sovereignty by deploying into the right hyperscaler, service provider or edge site where more and more processing occurs.

Blog: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/storage-mobility-to-meet-the-challenges-of-hybrid-multicloud post by Dwayne Lessner
Host: Phil Sellers
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers

A slightly different episode this week for Nutanix Weekly. This session is a conversation with Nutanix Technology Champion, Andrea Ribeiro. Andrea is a Nutanix User Group leader for Sao Paulo, Brazil, and she is a blogger and community participant focused on Nutanix. We talk about how she got started contributing to the Nutanix community, gaining the recognition of Nutanix and peers.
Host: Phil Sellers
Guest: Andrea Ribeiro, thelittleriver.co

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

Nutanix launches the most significant update yet to its Nutanix Cloud ClustersTM (NC2) hybrid cloud software, now enabling organizations to run the Nutanix Cloud PlatformTM software on the Microsoft Azure® cloud service. With support for both the AWS and Azure clouds, NC2 is a true hybrid multicloud platform. It provides easy access to Azure services from customer VNets running enterprise applications. There’s a simple migration path for applications without modification, and expanded license portability with a consumption model choice.

Organizations are increasingly investing in the public cloud to solve business and IT challenges for improved operational flexibility, agility and cost-efficiency. According to 1,700 IT decision makers polled for the 2022 Enterprise Cloud Index report, 83% agree that hybrid multicloud is the ideal operating model.
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Harvey Green
Co-Host: Philip Sellers
Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Co-Host: Ben Rogers