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Nutanix Launches Xpress, Solution to Power SMB Clouds

Final customer pricing expected to be $25,000

Nutanix, Inc. announced Xpress, a solution designed to bring the power of the company’s enterprise cloud platform to SMBs at a price point they can afford.

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Xpress is so simple that a single IT professional can install and manage an organization’s entire IT infrastructure, freeing valuable time to focus on initiatives that directly impact the top line.

Real-world IT challenges for SMBs
A medium-sized business, such as a regional manufacturer or law firm, typically has a small team of IT generalists responsible for all technology services within their company, including managing the disparate, specialized and complex technologies around virtualization, server, storage and backup infrastructure. The team’s IT director struggles to drive the business forward when faced with balancing flat budgets and critical infrastructure challenges. For example, what does she do when her five-year-old SAN is approaching full capacity and end of support? How can she simultaneously upgrade her older x86 servers to support the latest version of her company’s critical applications? And how can she make sure her company’s data is fully backed up to the public cloud?

Larger companies can tackle these challenges by reshaping their datacenter infrastructure. Smaller organizations, however, are often unable to make such drastic shifts due to imposing costs and training requirements. Without access to more affordable and simpler solutions, SMBs continue to fall further behind, unable to compete as effectively with large corporations.

To close the technology gap, Nutanix has introduced Xpress for SMBs, which provides:

  • All-in-one solution – A hyperconverged offering that natively integrates server, storage and virtualization and simplifies the infrastructure stack in a single, space-saving platform that can power 5 to 500 VMs with performance and reliability so IT generalists who wear multiple hats can more easily support all infrastructure needs

  • Plug and play – All software factory pre-installed and ready to run nearly any virtualized application for SMBs in less than 60 minutes

  • Built-in virtualization: Built-in AHV hypervisor and VM management can eliminate expensive virtualization licensing costs – no additional software components to install and manage

  • Future-proof: Easy data backup to public cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, to deliver a practical cloud strategy

  • Three-year support: Support from company technical teams and the NEXT community of IT experts

Nutanix_Xpress_TABLXpress is the next step in the company’s long-term strategy to bring the benefits of hyperconvergence to businesses of all sizes,” said Raja Mukhopadhyay, VP, product management, Nutanix. “Xpress is a new Nutanix product line with a dedicated technology roadmap. In support of this new initiative, Nutanix is building new go-to-market strategies with its channel, developing additional training and augmenting its world-class support organization.

Small businesses face an IT quandary – they are burdened with sprawling infrastructure and diverse management solutions, but have very limited options for deploying next-generation solutions, such as hyperconverged products,” said Kevin Kaiser, senior category manager, data solutions, CDW Corp.We see a significant opportunity to partner with Nutanix and bring the new Xpress solution to our customers to help them build scalable, optimized infrastructure.

Availability and pricing
Xpress will be available via all worldwide company’s authorized resellers and distributors in July 2016. Xpress-based solutions will be made available by firm’s OEM partners such as Lenovo, (Singapore) Pte Ltd. Final customer pricing is expected to be $25,000, and will include access to firm’s support tailored to the needs of SMBs.

Blog: Nutanix Xpress: Warm Welcome to the Global 200,000

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