Flexiant and Nutanix Form Technology Partnership

Flexiant Ltd and Nutanix, Inc. announced that European service providers will
now benefit from a plug and play cloud orchestration and virtualised solution.

Flexiant is an European provider of cloud orchestration software for
on-demand, automated provisioning of cloud services. Nutanix’s solution
collapses the conventional two-tiered datacenter design (storage and compute)
down to one single scalable appliance, delivering a
flash accelerated 2U datacenter, capable of hosting hundreds of virtualized
workloads without the need for a SAN. The Flexiant/Nutanix partnership enables
service providers to benefit from a solution at a low cost entry point that can
scale to growing business requirements.

Jim Foley, SVP market development, Flexiant said: "Service providers need the ability to
rapidly construct, deliver and manage a diverse range of cloud services. These
services need to be differentiated and deliver competitive advantage. By
combining Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator and the Nutanix appliances we are making
it possible for service providers to achieve their objectives faster, with
greater simplicity and at a significantly reduced cost than other solutions in
the market."

Flexiant software removes the complexity of tasks such as
constructing, orchestrating, metering and billing of cloud services. Nutanix
removes the complexity of deploying, managing and scaling the underlying
hardware, while removing the headache and cost of managing complex SAN and NAS
storage.

Foley continued: "By forming this
technology partnership we will enable service providers to deploy a hosted
solution, quickly, with the required computing power and storage, business
agility, freedom and flexibility to scale, deploy and configure cloud services.
All this is done with a level of simplicity and cost-effectiveness not
previously available."

Alan Campbell, sales director Nutanix EMEA said: "With many service providers looking to deploy cloud platforms
efficiently and speedily, the combination of Nutanix Cluster and Flexiant Cloud
Orchestration, we jointly provide a ‘best-of-breed’ solution. Following the
launch of Nutanix EMEA, we have received considerable interest from the service
provider market due to our linear, predictable and scalable building block
approach that helps address the investment challenges many organisations face
with traditional architectures."