Continuing with my coverage of .NEXT 2018… (I guess you could call this part 3?)
The saga continues on our journey to the “Enterprise Cloud”. We have discussed the original Nutanix offering having its final piece added in SDN to complete the HCI picture of Storage, Compute, and Networking. Then we moved into Era, where we focus on PaaS and one-click application delivery and life-cycle management. You can find the previous two posts here: Flow & Era
Now it is time for the very first Nutanix introduction to SaaS, which is enabled by the most recent acquisition (March 2018) of Botmetric. If you remember Nutanix Calm, then you will see some tie-in’s with what they are going for with Beam.
The acquisition was made in order to improve and expand on the multi-cloud story that was started at .NEXT last year. Beam compliments the strategy with Calm quite well as it expands heavily on cost optimization and visibility inside of the public cloud today (AWS & Azure today, GCP coming later).
The offering is delivered as SaaS (if that wasn’t obvious) and will continue the 1-click trend that is so tightly woven into the Nutanix identity. The ability to visualize the resource utilization across clouds is huge for business’ that are trying to chase the ever elusive multi-cloud strategy. Next up we will see not only comparisons with AWS, Azure, and GCP, but also with on-premise Nutanix Enterprise Cloud as well!
Let’s discuss what Beam (Formerly Botmetric) has already achieved in the market. They track over $1B in cloud spend as it stands TODAY, and are the highest rated CMP (Cloud Management Platform) on the AWS marketplace today. They also are servicing some impressive customers, but I am unsure if those are fair game so I am leaving the names off for now. I can’t deny that I feel this was a fantastic move by the leadership at Nutanix.
I will wrap this one with a quick bullet point list of what to expect from Beam both now and in the future:
- Centralized budgeting for multiple cost centers
- Policy based controls with intelligent alerting
- Proactive recommendations
- Confidence score based ROI projections
- AOS/Calm integration (with a single dashboard) target for the 2H of 2018
- GCP support in 1H of 2019
So there you have it! Flow completes the Nutanix Infrastructure, Era expands into the realm of PaaS, and Beam takes us to new heights with Nutanix’s first ever SaaS based offering. Pretty solid flow there fellas!
Cheers!
Russ
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