A new episode in Washington DC

After last years .NEXT in Barcelona, Spain, this year the event is hosted in Washington DC. For me, as an European, a little longer to travel, but it worth travelling as the first few sessions showed to me.

Of course, it is always good to see your name together with all fellow NTCs on the big screens just before the General session.

Of course Nutanix came with some announcements. For today I can only give some general information. The technical details will come tomorrow during the second general session.

But a few higlights of todays announcements are:

• Last year was already announced that external storage was going to be certified for use with Nutanix AOS. The certification for Dell Powerflex is completed, and the expectation is that support for Pure Storage FlashArray comes in the last quarter of this year.
• A FlashStack in on his way. As soon as the Pure Storage FlashArray is supported, this product will be available. This is a solution with Cisco UCS servers, Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects, the Pure Storage FlashBlade in combination with the Nutanix AOS and AHV NCI stack.
• Omnissa is going to support the Nutanix Platform later this year. See the Omnissa statement here. https://www.omnissa.com/insights/Omnissa-Nutanix-AHV-hypervisor/
• Some SaaS offerings of Nutanix will come available for Air-Gapped environments. Nutanix Central is the first to come, but Nutanix Data Lens as well as NCM Cost Governance are on the roadmap.
• Nutanix Move will be able to migrate Firewall Policies from NSX to Flow.

The real highlight of todays keynote was the inspiring story of José Andrés. Andrés is the founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK), a non-profit organization devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters.

More to come later this week!