Today, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure to simplify and accelerate the customer journey to the cloud. Nutanix customers can migrate and extend their workloads to Azure, without modification or retooling. With Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure, customers can leverage their existing Nutanix skills and tools, add Azure services such as security, identity, and analytics, and gain cost efficiencies by using their existing licenses for Azure deployment. And, to further support a hybrid model, customers can seamlessly extend Azure data services to their on-premises Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters using the Nutanix platform.
Keep reading to learn more about key benefits, use cases, and how to get started.
With Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure, organizations can develop a consistent hybrid cloud deployment strategy, while using their existing skillsets and taking full advantage of Azure services. Key benefits include:
Organizations can leverage current on-premises investments and quickly increase business agility with Azure services. Outlined below are a few common scenarios.
Business continuity and on-demand computing: Maintain business continuity during planned or unplanned downtime with disaster recovery (DR) and on-demand elasticity. Customers can also scale up or out to meet their seasonal and ad-hoc bursting requirements. For example, organizations can keep a small 3-node cluster running 24/7 on Azure, and rapidly expand the cluster size to its full capacity when a DR need arises.
Hybrid-cloud with unified management experience: Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure empowers customers to orchestrate their infrastructure across public and private clouds through a single, consistent interface. Customers can update capacity, monitor alerts and usage, replace hosts and more through their existing on-premises tools.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure is now generally available in East US, East US 2, West US 2 and North Central US. Other global Azure regions will become available soon. You can follow the regional updates page for updates on new supported instances and regions as they become available.
There are several ways you can start exploring Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure today.
If you are attending Microsoft Ignite 2022, check out the following Azure sessions that highlight this announcement for further insights.
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