Nutanix and NetApp have announced a collaboration to integrate NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure with the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution later this year.
Together, Nutanix and NetApp plan to offer customers greater choice to optimize their virtualization and data strategies across on-premises, cloud, and containerized environments. The new integration is designed to combine the data management capabilities of NetApp ONTAP with the unified hybrid multicloud operations of NCP.
“NetApp and Nutanix are enabling simple, secure and fast modernization of virtualized environments,” said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp. “Whether seeking to transform their virtualization layer, data operations, or both, customers need Intelligent Data Infrastructure at the foundation. With our combined capabilities, NetApp and Nutanix will make it easy to run virtualized workloads at enterprise scale.”
Key Benefits
- Modernize Virtualization and Hypervisor Layer – The combination of NCP with Intelligent Data Infrastructure built on NetApp technology will offer customers a new path to more easily modernize on-premises and cloud environments. The joint work is designed to allow customers to optimize storage while setting themselves up for future flexibility to support modern containerized workloads.
- Fast Migration – NFS-based integration between NCP and NetApp ONTAP is designed to streamline VM migration to Nutanix, reducing complexity and accelerating time to value. Customers can look forward to faster data-in-place conversions of VMs measured in minutes with NetApp Shift toolkit and Nutanix Move, which will enable them to reach full operationality more quickly.
- Simplified Operations – Intuitive management across NetApp ONTAP and NCP solution is expected to simplify the administration, troubleshooting, and operational overhead typical of enterprise virtualized environments. The joint solution plans to offload data management to ONTAP to allow independent scaling of compute and storage. Organizations running NCP will benefit from the security, performance, resiliency, and data mobility capabilities of NetApp ONTAP.
- VM-Granular Operations – Leveraging the advanced capabilities of NetApp and Nutanix, customers will be able to manage their virtual environments on a VM-granular level, enabling them to manage performance, storage capacity, and recovery methods from a unified management view.
- Built-in Cyber Resilience – Combining NetApp infrastructure with NCP is designed to enable enterprises to confidently protect workloads across the hybrid cloud. The joint solution will offer customers access to NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection with AI (ARP/AI) and NetApp Ransomware Resilience service to detect threats and exfiltration attempts in real time.
“Through our partnership with NetApp, customers will be able to simultaneously modernize their virtualization platform and tap into the power of Intelligent Data Infrastructure with NetApp,” said Tarkan Maner, President and Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix. “We’ve partnered together so that customers can modernize at their own pace.”
“Across the Middle East and Africa, organizations are prioritizing modernization strategies that not only enhance performance but also simplify operations and strengthen data resilience. Our collaboration with NetApp brings together best-in-class infrastructure and intelligent data capabilities, enabling customers in the region to modernize their environments with greater confidence, accelerate migration, and build a future-ready foundation for hybrid multicloud and AI workloads,” said Sush Kajaria, EMEA Alliance Sales Director at Nutanix.”
As the alliance progresses, Nutanix and NetApp plan to work together to accelerate AI innovation by integrating NetApp ONTAP into the Nutanix Agentic AI solution, a full software stack purpose-built to help customers adopt Agentic AI for business transformation.
Availability
NCP with NetApp AFF all-flash A-series and select FAS hybrid-flash systems will be available later this year, along with Cisco collaboration on FlexPod with Nutanix.
