.NEXT 2018: Nutanix Era

Continuing with my coverage of .NEXT 2018…

This piece is a follow up to my previous post focused on Nutanix bringing software defined networking into the fold alongside their well establish software defined compute and storage offerings. You can find the previous post here.

Nutanix Era inches us higher up the stack into what Nutanix is considering their expansion into the PaaS arena. The idea? Databases made simple!

Era at its highest level is a provisioning and life-cycle manager with a focus out of the gate on databases and copy data management. The solution requires a CDM VM appliance (visualization below) that connects to the source databases and creates a “time machine” for that DB enabling any point and time backup and restore up to the most recent transaction.

In this scenario the DB admin is still in control and able to define the snapshot policies, which when restored will “replay” the snapshot and logs (combined together) as a clone to that specific point and time. Oh, and did you notice that the primary DB does NOT need to be on Nutanix? If your seeing a trend in mobility here just hold onto that thought 😉

The 1.0 release of Era brings support for Oracle and Postgress SQL with 1 click provisioning, 1 click in place backup & restore, clone, and refresh. The ultimate vision for Era to be able copy any database, at any point in time, to any infrastructure, or any cloud.

We are talking AWS, GCP Azure, Oracle, on or off the Nutanix platform. Efficient, Elegant, and Secure!

Next we will climb higher one final time into the world of SaaS with Nutanix Beam.

Cheers!

Russ