Nutanix Unified Storage is a unified data management platform that is built on Nutanix’s enterprise-class Cloud Platform. It is designed to address the requirements for modern applications deployed at the core, in the cloud, or at the edge. Nutanix Unified Storage is an integrated, software-defined, enterprise-grade IT infrastructure platform that lets customers consolidate their block-, file-, and object-based workloads onto a single, highly scalable platform that accommodates all types of applications and deployment options under a common operating model. Because it is built on top of NCP, Nutanix Unified Storage inherits all the flexibility, simplicity, and scalability as well as the hybrid multicloud capabilities of that proven platform.  

Nutanix Unified Storage provides the option of servicing applications using different data types from a single platform and managing the entire software-defined infrastructure from a single pane of glass. The platform improves infrastructure efficiency by collapsing the requirement for dedicated storage silos to support each data type, reducing infrastructure spend along with energy and floor space consumption. It also makes it much easier to share data across different applications using different access methods without having to migrate data between storage silos, a task that can be time-consuming and risky.

Business Value of Nutanix Unified Storage

With Nutanix Unified Storage, IT administrators have the freedom to choose from a wide range of several types of underlying hardware while still delivering enterprise-grade data services to their constituency. The platform is supported on any node type supported by AOS, the Nutanix storage operating system, giving customers significant choice in hardware platforms as well as many different appliance choices (which are available directly from Nutanix channel partners). Nutanix Unified Storage can be deployed in either a dedicated (standalone) or a hyperconverged infrastructure mode. The platform runs on AOS, but in dedicated mode, the virtual machines (VMs) on a node all run storage services, while in HCI mode, nodes can also run user VMs. The dedicated mode gives administrators the ability to deliver file-, block-, and object-based data services, while the HCI mode provides a different deployment model to deploy along with other workloads, all the while keeping the same operational and platform flexibility regardless of the deployment option chosen. 

• Better storage uptime for your organization. Nutanix’s DR tools help your organization recover quickly and easily. 
• Scalability. Consumption-based model to tackle exponential growth in unstructured data while meeting performance requirements. 
• Centralized management. One platform for File, Object, and Block storage with flexible, capacity-based licensing across all data services. 
• Built-in security tools. Integrated data security and analytics provide deep data insights to prevent, detect, and recover from ransomware and cyber-attacks. 
• Cost savings. Unified storage systems are easier to buy and deploy, and the associated infrastructure costs less, consumes less energy, and takes up less floor space. Another factor is that Nutanix’s subscription-based pricing model helps organizations switch costs from capex to opex. 

Nutanix customers are realizing significant added value by leveraging Nutanix Unified Storage to simplify and scale their files and object storage environments which delivers IT efficiencies and enhances business flexibility. 

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Choice Solutions & Nutanix – Better Together

Since 2012, Choice Solutions has leveraged private cloud and hybrid cloud solutions from Nutanix to help business, and IT leaders solve myriad IT infrastructure complexities. Through hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI), Nutanix has pioneered a new way of integrating compute, storage, and networking (as well as an optional virtualization hypervisor for simple IT infrastructures) to support business applications. Nutanix’s HCI platform enables businesses to benefit from the same web-scale cloud architecture approaches that power all the major public cloud providers. At Choice Solutions, Nutanix has become our standard private cloud offering and is a foundational part of our hybrid cloud solutions portfolio. 

Choice Solutions has fulfilled all requirements for Nutanix’s highest level of partnership competency. This means that Choice Solutions possess the highest level of product, administration, and service competencies with Nutanix. Contact us today to learn more and see how we can help.