We are generating more data today than at any other point in history, and the pace is only accelerating. It’s no longer just traditional sources like financial transactions or healthcare records fueling this growth. The explosion of smart devices such as connected TVs, IoT sensors, and even cars, combined with social media platforms where billions of posts, photos, and videos are shared daily, has pushed data creation to an unprecedented scale.
For companies, this presents both an opportunity and a challenge. To unlock value from this data, organizations must be able to retain, classify, secure, and analyze it at scale, all while maintaining consistent performance and controlled costs.
The reality? Most enterprises are juggling a patchwork of specialized storage solutions, each designed for a specific type of data, creating silos and complexity.
But what if you could break down these silos and rely on a single platform that can handle all types of data with linear scalability, high performance, built-in governance, and powerful analytics?
That’s exactly what Nutanix Unified Storage, NUS, delivers. Built into the same platform that powers your VMs, Kubernetes, ML/AI workloads, and databases, NUS extends those capabilities to provide a truly unified storage service, not just block storage, but also files and objects, all enriched with analytics, lifecycle management, cybersecurity, and strong data protection.
Let's break it a little bit:
Volumes Block Storage:
The foundation of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure delivers resilient block storage to VMs and iSCSI simultaneously. Already a proven component of NCI, Volumes ensures high performance and reliability for traditional workloads.
Files Storage:
Built on a scale-out distributed architecture, consolidates SMB and NFS services into a single, centrally managed platform. No more silos or storage sprawl.
Key capabilities include:
- Full audit trails – who accessed, changed, or deleted files (with timestamps).
- Ransomware & threat detection – policies and alerts for early potential malicious activities.
- Powerful analytics – insights into capacity, file types, usage patterns, and more.
- Quotas & governance – enforce user storage policies.
Objects Storage:
A scalable, simple, and secure S3-compatible object storage service for cloud-native apps, big data, ML/AI workloads, and long-term archives without adding complexity.
Capabilities include:
- Security – replication, encryption, multi-site protection.
- Immutability – WORM (Write-Once-Read-Many), versioning for compliance and recovery.
- Visibility – metadata tagging for organization and governance.
- Automation – S3 API compatibility for seamless integration.
It’s not just data volume that’s growing — threats are multiplying as well. Protecting intellectual property and business-critical information is no longer optional.
Nutanix Data Lens, not exactly part of NUS, but walks hand in hand with it, adding deep visibility and protection for unstructured data:
It goes beyond identifying risks based on vulnerability signatures, proactively identifying suspicious user behaviors, blocking access, and restoring last good known restore points.
With NUS and Data Lens, enterprises can move beyond simply managing storage — and instead transform data into a strategic asset, protected and ready for innovation
