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NUTANIX DELIVERS ADVANCED DATA MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR HYBRID AND MULTICLOUD Era 2.0 extends the Nutanix database management solution across clouds and clusters
Bala Kuchibhotla SVP & GM, Nutanix
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid and multicloud computing, announced the release of the first cloud agnostic multi-database management solution. Era 2.0 extends the Nutanix database management solution across clouds and clusters to simplify op-
erations, with increased scale and reduced costs for IT and database teams. Additionally, Nutanix announced expanded support for Postgres and SAP HANA as well as a joint solution, powered by Era 2.0, with HCL.
General Manager, Nutanix Era, Databases and Business Critical Apps at Nutanix. “Nutanix Era now delivers on our vision to provide a cloud agnostic multi-database management solution to truly unlock the promise of hybrid and multicloud.”
Era enables IT teams to deliver Database as a Service by bringing one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and lifecycle management. It’s a multi-database solution with support for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and MariaDB, in addition to Postgres and SAP HANA.
“At HCL, we help our customers to accelerate their data and infrastructure modernization journey with a secure, scalable, and cloud-ready database as a service. Our industry acclaimed services powered by the Nutanix Era & HCI platform will provide enterprises with a world-class automated database platform,” says Kalyan Kumar, Corporate Vice President and CTO, IT Services, HCL Technologies.
“Companies are increasingly looking for technology solutions to support their hybrid and multicloud strategies but, while some vendors deliver application mobility, we haven’t seen a lot of innovation when it comes to multicloud database management,” said Bala Kuchibhotla, SVP &
Era delivers simplified database management by combining the scalability and performance of Nutanix’s HCI software with the flexibility of cloud-ready database services.
HELP AG PARTNERS WITH AVIATRIX TO SIMPLIFY CLOUD NETWORKING AND SECURITY processes and networking technologies spanning different cloud providers and services.
The partnership with Aviatrix enables both large enterprises and small businesses to easily integrate security tools in a public cloud environment Help AG, the cyber security arm of Etisalat Digital, y announced its partnership with Aviatrix, the cloud network platform, to help better enable secure adoption and usage of cloud services for businesses in a simplified manner. As more businesses and app owners deploy cloud-based solutions, the agility and speed required has been a major obstacle for a successful cloud security implementation. The challenge (for security teams and tools) has been further compounded by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic that led to the dramatic increase in utilization of cloud and multi-cloud environments as organizations and their customers began operating remotely overnight. To address these challenges, Help AG’s partnership with Aviatrix enables both
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Stephan Berner
Chief Executive Officer, Help AG large enterprises and small businesses to easily integrate security tools in a public cloud environment such as the creation of encrypted tunnels between cloud services. Aviatrix also helps to efficiently connect legacy data centres to cloud while ensuring much-needed infrastructure, operational visibility across deployment
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Stephan Berner, Chief Executive Officer at Help AG, said,“When public cloud infrastructure was designed and built, it was done by technical experts who were looking for minimal acceptable functionality. However, enterprises have very specific requirements for infrastructure and Aviatrix fixes a set of unique problems especially when running multi-cloud environments or connecting to legacy data centres. Together, we help better enable secure adoption and usage of cloud services through the use of innovative solutions that address confidentiality and control of data, control of identity and mitigation of threats.” The Aviatrix cloud network platform delivers advanced networking, security and operational visibility required by enterprises with the simplicity and automation of cloud.
