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84 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsXenTegra will discuss topics surrounding Nutanix's industry-leading, 100% software-defined hyper-converged infrastructure to provide a single cloud platform that seamlessly brings to life your hybrid and multi-cloud strategy. Whether on-prem or in the cloud, you get unified management and operations with one-click simplicity, intelligent automation, and always-on availability.
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Nutanix Weekly: Getting Started with Red Hat OpenShift on Nutanix HCI
November 02, 2021 18:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBThe migration of applications from physical servers to virtual workloads has been underway for over two decades, but the migration from virtual machines to containers is less than a decade old. Modernizing applications to run as containers requires new tooling and the open source Kubernetes project has emerged as the widest adopted container management system. Kubernetes provides cloud-native capabilities, architecture, and operations which require new skill sets, posing a disruptive challe...
Nutanix Weekly: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Nutanix and Microsoft Azure - Part 2
October 29, 2021 00:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBIn recent years, and the last 18 months in particular, IT teams have been under pressure to become more agile to support an increasingly hybrid workplace amidst ever evolving business needs. Many businesses have packed years’ worth of digital transformation efforts into a short span of time while operating under reduced budgets. Both private and public cloud vendors are striving to better serve their customers’ needs, which frequently includes running workloads on a mix of on-premises and cl...
Nutanix Weekly: Enhancing the Security of Application Delivery in Frame
October 22, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBNutanix’s Frame® desktop-as-a-service, with its ability to deliver virtual desktops and applications on non-persistent virtual machines, is a key part of the security posture of many customers. When combined with Frame application mode, which eliminates the Windows® Desktop and focuses the end user on a single set of published applications, Frame provides enterprises with a secure way to deliver Windows applications and not lose control of the underlying data. As a part of our Enterprise Pr...
Nutanix Weekly: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Nutanix and Microsoft Azure - Part 1
October 05, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBIn recent years, and the last 18 months in particular, IT teams have been under pressure to become more agile to support an increasingly hybrid workplace amidst ever evolving business needs. Many businesses have packed years’ worth of digital transformation efforts into a short span of time while operating under reduced budgets. Both private and public cloud vendors are striving to better serve their customers’ needs, which frequently includes running workloads on a mix of on-premises and cl...
Nutanix Weekly: Take Nutanix Test Drive 2.0 for a Spin
September 28, 2021 20:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBEver wondered what it would take to build your own private cloud with Nutanix? Well, now you can try it out with the all-new Nutanix Test Drive 2.0. If you want to experience frictionless IT, you can put our software to the test in this new and improved demo. We’re excited to deliver this new release so that you can test out the infrastructure that thousands of companies rely on every day for fast, efficient datacenter operations. With just a few clicks, you’ll accomplish tasks that used to...
Nutanix Weekly: .NEXT 2021 Recap with the Team
September 24, 2021 11:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBIn this week's episode, we cover the top 10ish announcements from Nutanix .NEXT 2021 according to Jirah. With a few interruptions from his friends. Host: Andy Whiteside Co-Host: Harvey Green Co-Host: Jirah Cox Guest: Randy Brown Guest: Jeff Melnick
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Certification Recognized as one of the 15 Top-Paying Certifications
September 15, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBPeople have many reasons for getting technical certifications. It can be a stepping stone to a new job. It can be a way to show off what you've learned over the years. And some people collect them to prove their professional expertise across a variety of technologies. IT companies create certifications for many reasons as well. It can help customers get the most value out of the product. It can help reduce support costs, which frees up company resources to focus on innovations and new produ...
Nutanix Week: Provision Databases Easier with Nutanix Era & ServiceNow
September 02, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBProvisioning new databases and cloning database requests make up a hefty portion of a database administrator’s (DBAs) workload. As reported in Forrester’s Total Economic Impact survey for Nutanix Era, database provisioning is time consuming, tedious, and often requires additional approvals for new systems to support the new provision. DBAs reported that “to handle the capacity of existing database management and incoming requests, the DBA teams often needed to work overtime and weekends” (Fo...
Nutanix Weekly: Windows OS Optimization Essentials Part 2: Microsoft Store
August 26, 2021 14:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBOperating systems can end up being a lot of work for administrators. They need to work to configure the image, install the applications, and provide the best user experience possible. As with any software, what is provided to you is what the developer intended, but not necessarily what you want or need for your end users. This blog series introduces you to Microsoft Windows® Operating System (OS) optimizations, starting with version 1903. I will attempt to keep these optimizations as enviro...
Nutanix Weekly: Windows OS Optimization Essentials Part 1: Active Setup
August 18, 2021 00:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBOperating systems can end up being a lot of work for administrators. Work to configure the image, work to install the applications, and work to provide the best user experience possible. As with any software, what is provided to you is what the developer intended, but not necessarily what you want or need for your end users. This blog series introduces you to Microsoft Windows® Operating System (OS) optimizations, starting with version 1903. I will attempt to keep these optimizations as env...
Nutanix Weekly: Seven Ways to Simplify Your Digital Workspace Deployment in 2021
August 09, 2021 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBThe modern workplace has changed dramatically since the COVID 19 pandemic, and organizations everywhere are adopting digital workspace solutions to ensure business productivity, continuity, agility, and security, all while lowering costs. Digital workspaces are not a new idea, but too often deployment and operational complexity have kept organizations from realizing the benefits these solutions offer. Fortunately, there are solutions that can help significantly reduce this complexity. Buil...
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Mine advances data protection mission with Commvault
August 03, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBToday, we are proud to announce the availability of Nutanix Mine™ with Commvault®. Nutanix and Commvault have had a longstanding partnership over the last six years. Commvault was the first partner to provide data protection as a simple, secure, and transformative reality for our joint customers. Data protection has become a global IT directive across countries, industries, and organizations that are busy responding to the rapid shift of remote work and rising cyber threats. That is why the ...
Nutanix Weekly: Trekking through IT’s Automation Transformation
July 26, 2021 22:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBTo cut through the ubiquitous noise of automation hype, let’s briefly talk at a high-level about the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure industry’s automation journey and provide applicable guidance regardless of where you may be along your unique journey. With recent advances in automation, machine learning, data analytics, and cloud computing, we are all expected to achieve more with less. Even the most technologically savvy departments in our organizations have had challenges ada...
Nutanix Weekly Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Xi Leap DRaaS: Standing the Test of Time Believe It or Not, Nutanix’s Xi Leap DRaaS Just Got Simpler!
July 12, 2021 21:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBXi Leap is a natively integrated DR Service that serves as a seamless extension to the onprem infrastructure - thus providing a true hybrid cloud experience. Customers can configure Protection Policies and Recovery Plans to protect and recover applications in case of a disaster OnPremises to the Cloud. True to Nutanix’s design principle of simplicity, a lot of complexity associated with traditional DR - Multi Vendor Point Solutions, different panes of glass for administering infrastructure ...
Nutanix Weekly: NEW! Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture V3
June 30, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBI am pleased to announce the latest version (version 3) of the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture tech note is now available for download. The Nutanix® Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture is a comprehensive document that is meant for an organization’s Enterprise Architect team. This guide is very technical and walks a customer through more than 100 design decisions that should be taken into consideration when deploying Nutanix solutions in a hybrid cloud or private cloud model. Ho...
Nutanix Weekly: What's New in Nutanix AOS 6
June 16, 2021 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBHost: Andy Whiteside Co-Host: Harvey Green Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: Lenovo and Nutanix Deliver a Complete Hosted Desktop Environment for One Monthly Charge
June 07, 2021 21:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBDramatic Increase in Remote Workforce Working from home, or is it living at work? Nearly everyone has been affected, either directly or indirectly, by the shift to remote work. Although remote work had been increasingly common, the pandemic caused a spike that has fundamentally altered attitudes by both employees and employers. FlexJobs.com reports that “a Gartner survey of company leaders found that 80% plan to allow employees to work remotely at least part of the time after the pandemi...
Nutanix Weekly: Introducing Data Discovery, Classification and Security for Nutanix Files
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBNutanix Files provides single pane of glass management simplicity, software defined flexibility, and deep analytics intelligence to meet the modern challenges organizations face around file data. Nucleus Cyber’s NC Protect data-centric security solution is now validated as a Nutanix Ready AHV to provide Nutanix Files users with the ability to dynamically discover, classify and secure sensitive data to ensure secure collaboration and meet regulatory compliance. In addition to discovery and c...
Nutanix Weekly: Data Analytics & CybersecurityTrends, Threats & Tales From The Cyber Crypt
May 11, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBMany organizations’ plans around digital transformation and work from anywhere (WFA) initiatives were realized in 2020. Why? Simple, you either delivered it so your organization could continue to conduct business, or you couldn’t, and your business has struggled to keep pace. At its core, digital transformation is business transformation. And doing business in 2020 was disrupted by the pandemic. Host: Andy Whiteside Co-Host: Harvey Green Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix and AMD Break the User Density Bottleneck
May 04, 2021 13:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBWhen provisioning End User Computing (EUC) solutions (providing virtual desktops and applications to end users) hardware and software limitations have kept the conversations centered on finding a balance between maximum density and the most optimal user experience. In this blog, I’ll describe how innovation from Nutanix and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) effectively eliminate this constraint, allowing organizations to focus on fulfilling business requirements and justifications instead....
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Foundation Central Overview and What's New in Version 1.1
April 27, 2021 01:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MB*Original Release With remote working now the new normal, it is challenging to send skilled IT professionals to data centers to install new equipment. Although Nutanix clusters have always been quick to install and configure, there was still a requirement to send a trained IT technician to site to run the Foundation software for deployment, usually connected to a local laptop. For large-scale or multiple sites, this can be a costly exercise. How could we make this even easier in a ‘work fr...
Nutanix Weekly: 5 Reasons Why Nutanix Delivers the Best Hybrid and Multicloud Platform
April 21, 2021 21:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBNutanix delivers a hybrid and multicloud platform called Nutanix Clusters, which helps businesses accelerate their cloud journey by delivering the best of both worlds - seamless private and public cloud operations. We believe Nutanix Clusters offers the best hybrid and multicloud solution in the market for customers looking to quickly deploy and integrate their existing on-premises datacenters with multiple public clouds. If you want to move your on-prem applications to clouds such as AWS ...
Nutanix Weekly: Top 5 DaaS Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Part 2 of 5: Single User vs. Multi-User
April 14, 2021 14:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBUnfortunately, DaaS also “ain’t all sunshine and rainbows” (or, if it were up to me, BMW motorcycles and bacon cheeseburgers 😋). More often than not, even the most experienced IT professionals will still run into TCO, design, sizing, user experience, and administration challenges when it comes to DaaS. Folks seem to forget that matching the right use case to the right solution, managing expectations, proper budget planning, and solid design practices still apply in the world of public cloud...
Nutanix of Weekly: How To Ransomware Proof your Backups
April 06, 2021 01:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBOrganizations worldwide are in the midst of a massive wave of cybersecurity threats. Gartner reported that “ransomware families have grown by more than 700% in the last few years.” Every company is struggling to protect their data - the most important digital asset. As these attacks continue to mature both in frequency and intensity, their impact on business has grown exponentially. It is no longer something that happens to someone else; it is happening globally to both small and large orga...
Nutanix Weekly: Top 5 DaaS Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - Part 1 of 5: Sizing Workload VMs
March 30, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBUnfortunately, DaaS also “ain’t all sunshine and rainbows” (or, if it were up to me, BMW motorcycles and bacon cheeseburgers 😋). More often than not, even the most experienced IT professionals will still run into TCO, design, sizing, user experience, and administration challenges when it comes to DaaS. Folks seem to forget that matching the right use case to the right solution, managing expectations, proper budget planning, and solid design practices still apply in the world of public cloud...
Nutanix Weekly: Introducing A New Era in Database Management
March 23, 2021 01:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBWe're excited to announce the launch of Era 2.0 ! This recent evolution of Era expands on the core vision of a unified database operating model while delivering simplicity, performance, availability, and security across private and public clouds. Host: Andy Whiteside Co-Host: Harvey Green Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: Bursting 2,000 Citrix Desktops to AWS in Under 2 Hours with Nutanix Clusters
March 10, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBWith today’s distributed workforce it’s imperative that you have the ability to quickly enable your workforce to be productive working from anywhere, with secure remote access to applications, desktops, and data. Over the last several months the increased remote work requirements have put a focus on IT to rapidly support distributed workforce needs. To allow IT to rapidly provision infrastructure for increased distributed workforce needs, organizations have increased their adoption of public...
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Calm Overview
March 05, 2021 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBThese podcasts discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. In this episode, we discuss the following: Nutanix Calm Overview. Calm is a multi-cloud application management framework delivered by Nutanix. Calm provides application automation and lifecycle management natively integrated into the Nutanix Platform. With Calm, applications are defined via simple blueprints that can be easily created using industry-standard skills and control all aspects of the applica...
Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Clusters: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure for the Multicloud Era
March 02, 2021 14:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBThese podcasts discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. In this episode, we discuss the following: Nutanix Clusters: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure for the Multicloud Era. "Nutanix Clusters is a state-of-the-art cloud offering that enables seamless hybrid cloud deployments that are natively integrated into public clouds. You get direct, low latency access to the cloud-native services with predictable Nutanix resilience, efficiency, and performance. The solution ...
Nutanix Weekly: Top 10 Reasons to Run Epic Infrastructure on Nutanix
February 16, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBThese podcasts discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. In this episode, we discuss the following: Top 10 Reasons to Run Epic Infrastructure on Nutanix "Nutanix provides an overwhelming value that compels Epic customers to lean-in to innovation and away from concerns. Read why in the Top 10 Reasons to run Epic on Nutanix." Host: Andy Whiteside Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: Updates to Nutanix Files
February 04, 2021 17:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBThese podcasts discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. In this episode, we discuss the following: Updates to Nutanix Files "Nutanix Files 3.8 includes new features, resolved issues, and the concurrent release of the Files Manager 2.0." Host: Andy Whiteside Co-Host: Jirah Cox
Nutanix Weekly: 10 Reasons Why Nutanix is the Best Platform for Citrix
January 29, 2021 13:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBThese sessions discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. In this episode, we discuss the following: 10 Reasons Why Nutanix is the Best Platform for Citrix "With all of my Citrix background, I have been thrilled to see the company killing it - even prior to the Covid WFH mandates. The cherry on top is that two accounts recently came to me to help gauge the TCO about moving from Citrix’s primary VDI competitor to the Citrix platform. This made me realize that it...
Nutanix Weekly: Third Annual ECI Report: How the Pandemic Raised IT’s Profile and Paved a Clearer Pathway to Hybrid Cloud
January 13, 2021 13:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBThese sessions discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. In this episode, we discuss the following: Third Annual ECI Report: How the Pandemic Raised IT’s Profile and Paved a Clearer Pathway to Hybrid Cloud "Today, we announced the findings from our third annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, measuring enterprise progress with the adoption of private, hybrid, and public clouds. For the third year in a row, respondents named hybrid clou...
Nutanix Weekly: Introduction and Kickoff
December 29, 2020 20:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBThese sessions discuss the following topics, blogs, and support articles about Nutanix. "Nutanix strives to delight customers with a simple, flexible, and cost-efficient cloud platform, one that offers freedom of choice and enables true hybrid and multi-cloud computing." Host: Andy Whiteside Co-Host: Jirah Cox