Today’s enterprises often have thousands of applications to manage, some on-premises and others in public or private clouds. They need an easy-to-manage hybrid solution that enables them to roll out new cloud-native products and services quickly while maintaining their legacy apps.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) serves as a one-stop shop, enabling companies to manage, secure, and move workloads across clouds from a single control plane. Customers can run their virtual machine (VM)–based workloads alongside their cloud-native applications, whether on-premises or on AWS. As a result of this increased efficiency, companies can accelerate their cloud migration, bring new services to market faster, and lower their total cost of ownership.
Virtualization support
Nutanix has a long history of providing virtualization services and application management.
For companies running virtualized applications on-premises, Nutanix helps them move from VMware to the Nutanix AHV hypervisor and allows for easy migration to NC2 on AWS with minimal disruption. They can keep existing virtualized workloads running while gaining access to advanced cloud features.
Other companies may have already moved to AWS by using VMware Cloud (VMC) but are now looking for an alternative, given Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in November 2023. Nutanix helps these companies quickly move their VMC applications to NC2 while remaining on AWS.
NC2 AWS offers many advantages. Because it runs in a customer tenant account and uses native AWS networking, customers can run both legacy VM-based and cloud-native applications, all from one account. These applications also have full access to the entire suite of AWS services. Modernized applications can communicate seamlessly with legacy ones, and there’s no need to maintain separate accounts for billing.
NC2 on AWS is easy to deploy, with many customers choosing to deploy and manage the environment by themselves. Many NC2 processes are automated, reducing the time and effort needed for administrators to support their cloud environments. Upgrades and expansions are simple and leverage automated workflows. You can also design new custom workflows for your applications with just a few clicks.
A sports betting and gaming company provides a good illustration of the benefits provided by NC2/AWS. The company, under intense competitive pressure, needed to rapidly deploy a virtual data center in a new region to maintain its edge. Using NC2 on AWS, the company configured the center in just two weeks while ensuring adherence to all local compliance requirements. From now on, Amazon’s scaling flexibility will enable the company to deploy new services in the same region without expending additional capital or hiring local staff.
Reach out to your AWS and/or NTNX account team to discuss your VMware application modernization project today ([email protected]) or visit www.nutanix.com/vmware-alternative/vmc-on-aws.