Why Nutanix is a Strong Alternative to VMware Cloud

Today’s IT landscape is evolving at unprecedented speeds. With the proliferation of apps and data, market uncertainties and surge in AI use cases, customers require a robust platform that:

• Modernizes infrastructure using a server-based, software-defined approach.
• Supports application growth and modernization with a unified platform for both cloud-native and legacy apps through an integrated, enterprise-grade hypervisor.
• Ensures cloud flexibility, leveraging public and managed clouds without needing to refactor applications and being locked into a specific cloud provider.
   

Given these shifting dynamics, many organizations are re-evaluating their reliance on VMware, especially in light of recent changes following Broadcom’s acquisition. Concerns about the potential for rising prices, reduced product offerings, and decreased future investments are prompting VMware customers to seek alternatives.

Nutanix: Leading the Future of Hybrid Multicloud

Nutanix offers an innovative, unified cloud platform designed for the future. As the leader of hybrid multicloud, Nutanix offers a single platform to manage all your applications and data – whether on-premises, at the edge, or in the cloud –  while delivering unmatched flexibility, resilience, and future-proofing – without vendor lock-in. Plus, it supports existing VMware environments for those with significant investments.

Now, let’s explore how the history of innovation and cutting-edge solutions by Nutanix makes it a compelling choice for customers considering a transition from VMware.

From Hyperconvergence to Kubernetes Management

Nutanix was founded on innovation, revolutionizing the IT industry with our introduction of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) in 2011. By merging compute, storage and networking into a software-defined platform, Nutanix set a new industry standard. Soon after, we launched the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, which offers enterprise-grade virtualization and Kubernetes® support. 

Today, AHV is a cornerstone of many companies’ software-defined, hybrid multicloud IT operations. It offers seamless management of apps and data across private datacenters and public cloud services, including major providers like Azure and AWS. 

Continuing our tradition of innovation, we are excited about the recent launch of the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution. NKP combines the robust features of the Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE) offering with our recent acquisition of the D2iQ product family, delivering a consolidated runtime, orchestration, and management environment to our cloud-native customers. 

Nutanix AHV and NKP help make Nutanix a viable path for IT teams eager to migrate away from or counterbalance their reliance on VMware products.

Innovation to Provide Customer Choice 

Freedom of choice is crucial for customer success. However, VMware customers are facing limited options as Broadcom consolidates VMware’s offerings into just two foundational products: vSphere Foundation and VMware Cloud Foundation. 

At Nutanix, we prioritize providing our customers with greater flexibility. We engineer our software solutions to run seamlessly on a wide variety of server platforms from major server manufacturers worldwide, as well as on the Nutanix NX appliance. Our commitment to customer choice supports diverse on-premises private cloud deployments and reflects our historical evolution from a hardware company to a software company, as evidenced by our recently announced Dell partnership. 

Our Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) platform further enhances customer choice allowing you to run Nutanix software on public clouds with the same control plane used for edge and on-premises deployments. Additionally, NC2 license portability offers even more flexibility by enabling the seamless transfer of licenses between different environments.

In contrast, VMware’s has varying operating models with different public clouds. Also, according to Steve McDowell of NAND Research, despite VMware’s announcement of a 50% price reduction for VMware Cloud Foundation, new bundles are expected to increase overall costs for many existing VMware vSphere customers.

Future-Proofing with Nutanix

Another way Nutanix is driving innovation is through its pioneering of hybrid multicloud solutions. With nearly half (46%) of organizations already using hybrid cloud or hybrid multicloud models – and this number of hybrid multicloud deployments expected to double in the next 1-3 years – Nutanix offers a cutting-edge platform to meet this demand. Our solution enables you to seamlessly run and manage your apps and data across on-premises, edge and cloud environments, simplifying operations and enabling you to create positive business outcomes.

Building on this commitment, we also have a long-term vision with Project Beacon. This multi-year effort aims to allow developers to build applications once and deploy them anywhere. Project Beacon will decouple apps and their data from their underlying infrastructure and offer a range of data-centric, platform-as-a-service-level and cloud-native block and file storage services available natively anywhere, including on the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution or on public clouds.

Simplify AI Deployments

AI has become a necessity for modern businesses, from major players like NVIDIA and Google to the smallest IT start-ups. Nutanix is investing in AI to meet this need with the innovative GPT-in-a-Box offering. This platform offers control, privacy, and security over your AI deployments, including a curated set of large language models (LLMs) using leading open-source AI frameworks. It can also be scaled from small edge deployments to large private clouds and provides built-in data services.

Utilizing the capabilities of AI is essential for any company that wants to thrive in today’s IT landscape. Take a look at how integrating Nutanix with NVIDIA and Hugging Face can maximize your AI success.

Find an Ideal Hybrid Multicloud Platform in Nutanix

Nutanix continues to invest in innovation to provide a secure, faster and more cost-effective path for balancing investments between on-premises datacenters and the cloud. Whether you’re invested in VMware or looking for an alternative, Nutanix offers the flexibility and advanced features needed to meet today and tomorrow’s IT demands.

Our cloud platform allows you to run applications and data across multiple endpoints, providing unmatched flexibility, resilience and future-proofing without vendor lock-in.

Explore Nutanix solutions to discover how we can support your journey toward a more agile and future-ready IT environment.