I couldn’t kick off this series without talking about Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), the backbone of everything we do at Nutanix. This is where your workloads are born, managed, and thrive with resilience and simplicity.
Over 15 years ago, Nutanix set out with a bold mission: to create a distributed, web-scale, and resilient enterprise platform that runs on commodity hardware.
Sound familiar? It’s the very same approach hyperscalers used to transform the industry.
The difference? Nutanix brought hyperscaler-like scale and resilience to the enterprise datacenter.
Today, NCI powers a complete enterprise-grade Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution that seamlessly combines compute, storage, and network virtualization, freeing companies from the rigid architectures of the past.
Nutanix Operational System (AOS)
At the core is AOS, our software-defined storage powerhouse. It abstracts storage from compute by pooling disks — HDD, SSD, or NVMe across multiple hosts, creating a high-performance datastore that hypervisors can consume.
What makes AOS stand out?
- Performance & Data Locality – Keeping workloads close to the data they need;
- Intelligent Auto-Tiering – Always putting data on the right media, automatically;
- Efficiency – Built-in compression and deduplication to optimize resources;
- Resilience & Security – Replication across nodes/disks, async DR, and even synchronous replication for stretched/metro clusters with near-zero RPO/RTO.
Nutanix Hypervisor (AHV)
Why AHV?
- Dynamic Scheduler – Intelligent workload placement and runtime optimization;
- High Availability – Automatic protection against hardware failures;
- Lifecycle Management – BIOS, firmware, drivers, and software all updated in one orchestrated flow, no juggling vendor-specific tools.
Flow Virtual Networking and Network Security
No modern HCI platform is complete without software-defined networking. Nutanix Flow enables enterprises to:
- Provision complex topologies in seconds — fully routed or isolated segments;
- Create VPCs for multi-tenant environments or overlapping networks;
- Enforce Zero-Trust Security with microsegmentation — applying firewall rules at the VM level to stop east-west threats before they spread.
This means you can protect your applications with precision, not just perimeter defenses.
Traditional, static architectures hold you back; they’re costly, rigid, and slow to adapt. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure breaks those chains with a software-defined approach that’s agile, scalable, and future-proof.
Whether you’re running Virtual Machines, Containers, Kubernetes-based applications, Databases, AI/ML, or modern workloads
NCI lets you deploy them anywhere — on-prem, at the edge, or in the public cloud (more on that in a future post)
This is the foundation of true hybrid multicloud, and it all starts here.
