Nutanix upgrades Acropolis File Services

Nutanix, an enterprise cloud computing player, has announced new capabilities for its Acropolis File Services (AFS) software. In the two quarters since initial market introduction, approximately 10% of Nutanix customers have chosen Nutanix AFS for their file services needs.

Delivered as part of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud platform, AFS software streamlines IT operations by natively converging virtual machine (VM) and file storage into a single scale-out platform, driving improved flexibility and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

AFS customers will be able to exploit a rapidly expanding partner ecosystem to:

• Secure sensitive company data with simple in-line antivirus scans using popular antivirus (AV) solutions from Symantec
• Back up AFS data by leveraging partners Rubrik and Comtrade
• Enable active-active AFS deployments* using Peer Software, so geographically-distributed teams can collaborate on projects
• Perform detailed audits of file system access with partners Varonis and STEALTHbits

In addition to simplifying IT infrastructure by removing silos created by dedicated file services offerings, AFS software gives customers a public cloud experience, but with the security and control of a private cloud deployment. AFS customers can manage file services via Nutanix Prism, delivering a unified, consumer-grade management interface for their entire infrastructure. 

“Nutanix continues to demonstrate thought leadership by offering a clear and compelling vision for the future of the data centre,” said Eric Sheppard, IDC Research Director, Enterprise Storage & Converged Systems. “AFS represents an important part of this vision and highlights the company’s commitment to providing a public cloud experience inside complex corporate data centres.”

“Rapid AFS adoption shows that customers are clamouring for more ways to converge and simplify all their IT operations, and to replace legacy products with more flexible software-driven solutions,” said Sunil Potti, Chief Product and Development Officer at Nutanix. “By dramatically reducing operational complexity and leveraging a common software layer, we’re enabling our customers to turn IT into a profit centre. We believe customers will continue their enthusiastic adoption of AFS as part of the overall consumption of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS and we look forward to continuing to expand our partner ecosystem to serve their broadest needs.”

Nutanix AFS with inline anti-virus scans is available now to all Nutanix customers. Active-active and auditing capabilities will be available in a future release.

The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS helps to power critical business applications with on-demand compute resources and elastic storage services. According to Nutanix, the platform allows organisations to build and operate enterprise data centres that rival public clouds.

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*An active-active network has nodes which are running the same services at the same time. Loads can be balanced across active-active setups for better performance. An active-passive network would have some nodes which are running and others which are idle, ready to take over if a node is overloaded or fails.