IBM and Nutanix recently announced a multi-year initiative to bring new workloads to hyperconverged deployments.
The integrated offering aims to combine Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud Platform software with IBM Power Systems, to deliver a turnkey hyperconverged solution targeting critical workloads in large enterprises. The partnership plans to deliver a full-stack combination with built-in AHV virtualization for a simple experience within the datacenter.
This joint initiative intends to bring new workloads to hyperconverged deployments by delivering the first simple-to-deploy, web-scale architecture supporting POWER based scale-out computing for a continuum of enterprise workloads, including:
- Next generation cognitive workloads, including big data, machine learning and AIMission-critical workloads, such as databases, large scale data warehouses, web infrastructure, and mainstream enterprise apps;
- Cloud Native Workloads, including full stack open source middleware and enterprise databases and Containers.
Stefanie Chiras, VP Power Systems, IBM
Hyperconverged systems continue on a rapid growth trajectory, with a market size forecast of nearly $6 billion by 20201. IT teams now recognize the need, and the undeniable benefits, of embracing the next generation of datacenter infrastructure technology.
Dheeraj Pandey, CEO, Notanix
With this partnership, IBM customers of Power-based systems will be able to realize a public cloud-like experience with their on premise infrastructure. With the planned design, Enterprise customers will be able to run any mission critical workload, at any scale, with world-class virtualization and automation capabilities built into a scale out fabric leveraging IBM’s server technology.
