Nutanix, a cloud hardware start-up that’s offering a hybrid scale-out compute-cum-storage appliance backed by $72 million in VC funding only half of which is reportedly spent, has put out next-generation software-defined data center products.
It’s updating its server hardware and its software to deal with divergent workloads. It’s going to a quad-node box made by Quanta and should be able to support 400 VMs per chassis, up from 300.
It’s got VM-centric disaster recovery, adaptive compression and a new highly configurable hardware platform. The widgetry includes Nutanix OS 3.0 and NX-3000 series hardware. It’s supposed to help enterprises build next-generation software-defined data centers.