We provide a leading next-generation enterprise cloud operating system that
converges traditional silos of server, virtualization, storage and networking
into one integrated solution and unifies private and public cloud into a single
software fabric. Our software delivers the agility, scalability and pay-as-you-grow
economics of the public cloud, while addressing enterprise requirements of application
mobility, security, data integrity and control. We provide our customers with
the flexibility to selectively utilize the public cloud for suitable workloads
and specific use cases by enabling increasing levels of application mobility
across private and public clouds. This capability will enable hybrid cloud deployments
and addresses a critical requirement for any next-generation enterprise cloud
operating system. We have also recently announced additional capabilities that
will enable native application orchestration and lifecycle management across
multiple private and public cloud environments, as well as a native cloud-based
disaster recovery service, which will further extend our hybrid cloud vision
across the entire software stack. We have combined advanced web-scale technologies
with elegant consumer-grade design to deliver a powerful enterprise cloud operating
system that elevates IT organizations to focus on the applications and services
that power their businesses. Our operating system is designed to create “invisible
infrastructure” that provides constant availability and low-touch management,
enables application mobility across computing environments and reduces inefficiencies
in IT planning.
Our enterprise cloud operating system is based on powerful distributed systems
architecture and converges server, virtualization, storage and networking resources
into one integrated operating system. Generalist IT professionals are able to
manage one datacenter operating system and management interface, which reduces
administrative time and costs. Our solution is currently comprised of two comprehensive
software product families, Acropolis and Prism.
Acropolis. Acropolis includes our Distributed Storage Fabric that replaces traditional
storage arrays and delivers efficient and high performance enterprise-grade
data management across a range of storage protocols to support a wide variety
of enterprise applications, and we have recently introduced the capability to
operate both virtualized and non-virtualized applications. Acropolis also includes
our innovative Application Mobility Fabric that will enable increasing levels
of application placement, conversion and migration across different hypervisors
and public clouds. Additionally, the built-in Acropolis Hypervisor can replace
expensive third-party hypervisors and eliminate an additional infrastructure
silo.
Prism. Built with consumer-grade design, Prism delivers integrated virtualization
and infrastructure management, robust operational analytics, a search-first
interface, self-service capabilities and one-click administration. Prism allows
routine IT operations that are typically manual and cumbersome to be fully automated
or completed with just one click, including capacity planning, provisioning
of new applications and resources, troubleshooting and software upgrades. Prism
also offers a self-service portal that enables developers and line-of-business
owners to provision services as well as a broad set of APIs for integration
with third-party cloud management and orchestration software.
Our Technology
Our enterprise cloud operating system converges server, virtualization, storage
and networking into one software-driven integrated operating system that unifies
private and public cloud into a single software fabric. Our operating system
is designed to run on a variety of hardware platforms, including off-the-shelf
x86 servers. Our solutions are easy-to-deploy and can be expanded one node at
a time, reducing costs associated with overprovisioning. The product is a scalable
distributed system and can be formed into very large clusters without any single
point of failure or degradation of performance. Our solution is currently comprised
of two comprehensive software product families, Acropolis and Prism.
Acropolis. Acropolis provides an open platform designed to address storage,
application mobility and virtualization needs for a wide range of workloads
that can be run at any scale. This platform offers IT professionals feature-rich
turnkey infrastructure with increased flexibility of where to run their applications.
Acropolis delivers enterprise-grade data management services, applied to individual
virtual machines or applications to provide our customers with the granular
infrastructure control they desire. Acropolis also provides scalable, efficient
and secure platform services with built-in virtualization. Acropolis is comprised
of three foundational components that can replace mid-range to high-end storage
arrays and standalone virtualization products:
Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric: Building on our Nutanix Distributed File
System, the Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric, or DSF, enables robust enterprise
storage services across multiple storage protocols and hypervisors. Acropolis
DSF provides file-based and block-based storage for both virtualized and non-virtualized
environments.
Acropolis Application Mobility Fabric: The Acropolis Application Mobility
Fabric, or AMF, provides an open environment capable of delivering intelligent
application placement and migration, as well as cross-hypervisor high availability
and integrated disaster recovery. Acropolis supports all virtualized applications,
and is intended to provide a seamless path to containers and hybrid cloud computing
in the future. AMF allows migration from one hypervisor, such as VMware ESXi,
to another hypervisor such as AHV. Acropolis DSF abstracts out the storage dependencies
and AMF automates the workflows of the discrete steps of file format conversion,
driver injection and VM provisioning. AMF also includes Cloud Connect, which
offers extended hybrid cloud capabilities such as disaster recovery.
Acropolis Hypervisor: Our built-in Acropolis Hypervisor, or AHV, is based on
widely-used open source hypervisor technology known as Linux KVM, and is hardened
with enterprise-grade security, self-healing capabilities and robust virtual
machine, or VM, management. AHV is also integrated with Prism to deliver streamlined
administrator workflows when provisioning, cloning and placing VMs.
Prism. Prism offers a single point of management for server, virtualization,
storage and networking resources and provides an end-to-end view of all common
administrator workflows, system health, alerts and notifications through a simple,
elegant and intuitive interface. Prism features innovative technology that streamlines
time-consuming IT tasks, and includes one-click operation of software upgrades,
detailed capacity analysis and troubleshooting.
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