Welcome to the next generation hyperconverged data centre
I-BIT are Nutanix Premier Partners – We use their technology in the software-defined data centre and hyperconverged infrastructure space, as the platform for our solutions. Nutanix are the market leader and recognised by Gartner as being furthest forward with their completeness of vision within their Magic Quadrant. They now command a 52% market share *IDC
The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform delivers:
- Lower costs – 40-60% reduction in overall opex and capex
- Limitless scalability – scale infrastructure predictably with no
limits - Fastest time to value – 8x time to value in buying, deploying and managing
- Smallest footprint – upto 90% reduction in power, cooling and space with a 2U factor
- Time for IT innovation – free IT resources to focus on important business initiatives and true innovation.
Gartner’s overall assessment of Nutanix is:
“a complete infrastructure solutions company, providing its customers with flexibility in their choice of hypervisors and cloud usage. Nutanix is the only vendor of hyper-converged solutions positioned in the leaders quadrant, gained market credibility and established a worldwide presence”
Hyper converge your storage and data, reduce data centre footprint, remove bottlenecks and increase performance. The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is an extensible, appliance based server with built-in enterprise storage that optimises any virtual machine (VM.)
There are 5 key attributes to a Virtual Computing Platform:
Converged Compute:
The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform converges compute and storage into a single system, eliminating the need for traditional storage arrays.
Each Nutanix node runs an industry standard hypervisor and a Nutanix controller VM, which handles all I/O operations for the local hypervisor. Storage resources are exposed to the hypervisor through traditional interfaces, are pooled and made available to all VMs. The convergence of compute and storage into a single appliance provides a flexible, scalable building block for the modern datacentre.
Software Defined:
Nutanix employs a highly distributed software architecture to deliver enterprise data storage as an on-demand service. The system embeds all control logic into intelligent virtual machines that run on each cluster node.
As a 100% software-driven solution, all Nutanix services are ‘late bound.’ Policy controls are never tied to hardware. Additionally, all software-defined services are entirely VM-centric, including snapshots, high availability (HA), disaster recovery, de-duplication and more. The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform transforms storage from a passive keeper of data to into an active system.
Server Attached Flash:
The Nutanix compute solution integrates enterprise grade flash into each node, converging flash and compute resources into a single appliance to deliver the fastest possible application performance. The Nutanix Distributed 
File System pools server-attached flash capacity across all Nutanix nodes into a single shared resource that is accessible to all virtual machines in the cluster. Unlike competing flash-based storage solutions, Nutanix maintains a fully persistent data tier in flash – not just a cached copy. The Virtual Computing Platform also distributes metadata intelligently throughout the flash tier to enable massive and truly linear scale out.
Scale Out:
The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is the antithesis of a single machine. It provides a unified, always-on cluster of compute and storage nodes that can run any virtual machine at massive scale. If more storage or compute capacity is required, additional Nutanix nodes can be added non-disruptively, one at a time.
Unlike traditional SAN/NAS solutions that are limited to a small number of hardware based controllers, the Nutanix software-based, n-way controller architecture scales proportionately with cluster growth. Enterprises benefit from a scale out technology that is economical, flexible and predictable.
Hybrid:
Nutanix has designed its Virtual Computing Platform for hybrid deployments. Its distributed software architecture is completely hypervisor agnostic. Nutanix customers, for example, can run vSphere virtual machines (VMs) adjacent to KVM-based VMs to facilitate mixed workload environments. Similarly, 
Nutanix is built to function independently of storage media. Besides storing data using local high-capacity hard disk drives and advanced solid state flash, the Nutanix architecture is extensible. It will enable easy consumption of public clouds via standards-based APIs to build seamless hybrid cloud environments.
The journey to a software-defined data centre needn’t be difficult with I-BIT. Let us lead the way to the future.