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, specialised and complex technologies around virtualisation, 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 fiveyearold 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 datacentre infrastructure. Smaller organisations, 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.
In order to close the technology gap, Nutanix has introduced Xpress for small and medium businesses, which provides:
· Allinone solution: A complete hyperconverged offering that natively integrates server, storage and virtualisation and radically simplifies the infrastructure stack in a single, space-saving platform that can power 5 to 500 virtual machines (VMs) with proven performance and reliability so IT generalists who wear multiple hats can more easily support all infrastructure needs
· Plug and Play: All software factory preinstalled and ready to run nearly any virtualised application for small and medium businesses in less than 60 minutes?
· Built-in virtualisation: Built-in Nutanix AHV hypervisor and powerful VM management can eliminate expensive virtualisation licensing costs no additional software components to install and manage
· Futureproof: 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: Awardwinning support from Nutanix technical teams and the Nutanix NEXT community of IT experts
“Xpress 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 of 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 gotomarket strategies with its channel, developing additional training and augmenting its worldclass support organisation.”
“Small businesses face an IT quandary – they are burdened with sprawling infrastructure and diverse management solutions, but have very limited options for deploying nextgeneration solutions, such as hyperconverged products,” said Kevin Kaiser, Senior Category Manager, Data Solutions, CDW. “We see a significant opportunity to partner with Nutanix and bring the new Xpress solution to our customers to help them build scalable, optimised infrastructure.”
