Nutanix Objects 2.0 With Features for Big Data and Analytics Applications

Nutanix, Inc. extended its platform with features for big data and analytics applications, as well as unstructured storage.

These capabilities, part of Nutanix Objects 2.0, include the ability to manage object data across multiple Nutanix clusters for achieving massive scale, increased object storage capacity per node, and formal Splunk SmartStore certification. The enhancements add to a cloud platform that is already optimized for big data applications, to deliver performance and scale, while also reducing cost by maximizing existing, unused resources.

Big data workloads demand cloud environments that can manage large volumes of unstructured data, as well as deliver the performance necessary to analyze the data in real-time to extract business insight. With companies reliant on business data to create personalized customer experiences, IT teams often struggle with siloes, complexity, and operational inefficiencies. Options currently available do not offer secure, end-to-end solutions to run big data applications that can scale.

“Digital transformation requires web-scale storage for enterprise workloads. Object storage is rapidly becoming the storage of choice for next gen and big data applications. As object storage makes the leap from the cloud to the datacenter and mission critical workloads, economics must be balanced with performance,” said Amita Potnis, research director, storage team, IDC. “Nutanix is known for flexibility and simplicity. Multi-cluster support and certification with Splunk SmartStore with Nutanix Objects will allow for massive scale at the right price and performance that these workloads require.“

The company’s software brings scale, performance and simplicity, along with built-in automation and one-click operations, to free data scientists, security teams, and line of businesses to focus on extracting value from data. The subscription licensing model also brings the flexibility to adapt to dynamic business needs. Additionally, by natively integrating object storage services with the company’s HCI solution, IT teams can leverage unused resources to reduce costs and streamline storage management and administration.

Features for running big data workloads, include:

• Increased scale-out object storage: Objects 2.0 features multi-cluster support to deliver massive scale object stores. Breaking down cluster boundaries enables teams to leverage a single namespace across multiple clusters, managed from a single console. It also allows IT teams to take advantage of unused storage capacity anywhere in their environment to improve storage economics.

• Deeper storage nodes: In addition to new scale-out capabilities, Objects 2.0 supports deeper, high-capacity nodes with up to 240TB of storage. This enables multi-petabyte objects stores with a single Nutanix cluster.

• Enhanced security: Objects 2.0 customers can take advantage of WORM to lock their content without necessarily enabling versioning to meet a variety of regulatory and compliance mandates.

“Every company is striving to become a data-driven company,” said Greg Smith, VP, product marketing. “Big data applications require incredible scale and performance at competitive cost structures. The Nutanix platform, with the addition of multi-cluster object storage, offers a compelling solution for unstructured object storage that leverages existing storage resources for improved storage economics.“

Splunk certification
Nutanix Objects is certified by Splunk as SmartStore compliant allowing customers to manage Splunk data growth with the firm’s Objects. Joint customers can now run Splunk workloads on the company’s software, and leverage Objects for built-in object storage to support their Splunk environment.

Capabilities included in Nutanix Objects 2.0 are available.

Resources:
Blog: Nutanix Objects 2.0, Breaking Cluster Boundaries for Seamless Data Management
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