Nutanix announces the NX8150 hyper-converged appliance and Cloud Connect, a new software capability allowing hybrid cloud architectures that leverage popular public cloud services.
The NX-8150 is a hyper-converged appliance engineered for applications demanding high storage capacity, low latency and fast storage performance. According to the company a single appliance supports up to 3500 Exchange mailboxes in 2U of space, with flexible CPU, flash and networking configurations allowing the delivery of any application at any scale.
Inside are 20 or 24 cores from dual Ivy Bridge CPUs. x4 SSDs (400GB, 800GB, 1.6TB) for a maximum of 6.4TB and x20 1TB HDDs.
Meanwhile Cloud Connect is the first product release from the Nutanix hybrid cloud roadmap. It integrates Nutanix-powered private clouds with public cloud services (Such as Amazon Web Services) without need for 3rd party software or plug-ins.
"Nutanix embraces the public cloud, which is requisite for any modern datacenter," the company says. "Web-scale IT is already powering some of the largest corporations and government agencies in the world-- now we are bringing it to the world’s most mission-critical apps.”