Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing and NetApp, a Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, has announced a collaboration to integrate NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure built on NetApp enterprise storage systems with the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution with the Nutanix AHV hypervisor later this year.
Together, Nutanix and NetApp plan to offer customers greater choice to optimise their virtualisation and data strategies across on-premises, cloud and containerised environments. The new integration is designed to combine the data management capabilities of NetApp ONTAP, including an intelligent, flexible, secure data foundation, with the unified hybrid multicloud operations of NCP.
Key benefits
- Modernise virtualisation and hypervisor layer – The powerful combination of NCP with Intelligent Data Infrastructure built on NetApp technology will offer customers a new path to more easily modernise on-premises and cloud environments. The joint work is designed to allow customers to optimise storage while setting themselves up for future flexibility to support modern containerised workloads.
- Fast migration – NFS-based integration between NCP and NetApp ONTAP is designed to streamline VM migration to Nutanix, reducing complexity and accelerating time to value. Customers can look forward to faster data-in-place conversions of VMs measured in minutes with NetApp Shift toolkit and Nutanix Move, which will enable them to reach full operationality more quickly.
- Simplified operations – Intuitive management across NetApp ONTAP and NCP solution is expected to simplify the administration, troubleshooting and operational overhead typical of enterprise virtualised environments. The joint solution plans to offload data management to ONTAP to allow independent scaling of compute and storage. Organisations running NCP will benefit from the security, performance, resiliency and data mobility capabilities of NetApp ONTAP.
- VM-Granular operations – Leveraging the advanced capabilities of NetApp and Nutanix, customers will be able to manage their virtual environments on a VM-granular level, enabling them to manage performance, storage capacity and recovery methods from a unified management view.
- Built-in cyber-resilience – Combining NetApp infrastructure with NCP is designed to enable enterprises to confidently protect workloads across the hybrid cloud. The joint solution will offer customers access to NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection with AI (ARP/AI) and NetApp Ransomware Resilience service to detect threats and exfiltration attempts in real time.
As the alliance progresses, Nutanix and NetApp plan to work together to accelerate AI innovation by integrating NetApp ONTAP into the Nutanix Agentic AI solution, a full software stack purpose-built to help customers adopt Agentic AI for business transformation.
“Across the Middle East and Africa, organisations are prioritising modernisation strategies that not only enhance performance but also simplify operations and strengthen data resilience. Our collaboration with NetApp brings together best-in-class infrastructure and intelligent data capabilities, enabling customers in the region to modernise their environments with greater confidence, accelerate migration and build a future-ready foundation for hybrid multicloud and AI workloads,” said Sush Kajaria, EMEA Alliance Sales Director at Nutanix.
