Open Platform Solution Will Make Running and Protecting Applications Easy
Auckland, New Zealand – May 10, 2019 – Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced Nutanix Mine, a new open solution that
integrates secondary storage operations with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, delivering a complete platform for
primary and secondary storage within the private cloud. Through native integration with industry-leading backup vendors
Veeam, HYCU, Commvault, Veritas and Unitrends, customers will be able to manage their HCI environment and backup
operations from a single management console, reducing the operational cost and complexity of standalone back-up and
recovery solutions. Mine will streamline overall deployment, and simplify the full lifecycle of data backup operations,
including on-going management, scaling and troubleshooting - all while preserving the customer’s freedom to choose the
right back-up service for their particular infrastructure environment.
“There are many challenges with current backup and recovery solutions deployed today. The top concerns are most often
related to the cost, complexity and capability.” Gartner goes on to state, “These costs often continue to rise despite
overall cost improvements in the IT industry, and many organisations continue to perceive backup as an expensive
insurance policy.”1
As companies modernise their datacentre with HCI to realise the simplicity, performance and scalability needed to run
modern applications, their backup and data protection strategies have remained siloed from their core datacentre
environment. With Nutanix Mine, customers will be able to converge secondary storage operations into the Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud Platform to deliver intelligent data backup services for all business applications. Integrated with
Nutanix’s native HCI data fabric that provides intelligent tiering and advanced data reduction capabilities, Mine will
enable enterprises to choose the best data backup software for their organisation, optimised for their Nutanix HCI
environment; reducing the time and expense of configuring standalone secondary storage solutions.
“Backup and recovery strategies are often regarded as a painful necessity for most businesses because of their
complexity and lack of integration into the overall IT infrastructure. Even more modern solutions, which tout the same
customer-centric principles of hyperconverged infrastructure, only address the challenges of the secondary storage
environment,” said Phil Goodwin, Research Director, Cloud Data Management for Protection at IDC. “With more applications
and use cases converging on a single platform within the private cloud, integrating secondary storage tightly with
primary datacentre operations introduces even more flexibility and ease-of-use for customers.”
“As companies modernise their datacentre, they look to new solutions which make it easy to run business critical
applications, eliminating silos and reducing complexity in their private cloud environment so IT can serve as the
foundation of business success,” said Carey Stanton, Vice President of Global Alliances at Veeam. “By integrating our
software so closely with Nutanix through Mine, we’re delivering our joint customers a full platform for their primary
and secondary storage needs, dramatically reducing the complexity of running and protecting applications.”
Embracing an open platform strategy, Nutanix Mine will integrate with popular back-up solutions from Veeam, HYCU,
Commvault, Veritas and Unitrends. Through tight integration with Nutanix’s HCI data fabric and advanced Prism management
console, Mine will provide:
• A reduction in the complexity of separate systems to back-up and recover business data, so secondary storage can
be managed as easily as primary data storage
• The simplification of the full lifecycle of data backup operations, including initial sizing and procurement,
streamlined installation, and easy provisioning of the full solution, and
• The ability to easily scale-out both primary and secondary storage to accommodate business growth
“The hyperconverged market’s rapid growth is largely attributable to its promise of modernising infrastructure and
reducing complexity by eliminating silos within the datacentre. But even as customers embraced HCI, the secondary
storage silo persisted,” said Sunil Potti, Chief Product and Development Officer, Nutanix. “With Nutanix Mine, customers
will get all the benefits of collapsing this silo into a single platform - reduced management complexity, simplified
operations and reduced TCO - without the requirement that they forgo the backup solution best suited for their business
needs.”
Availability
Nutanix Mine with Veeam, sold by Nutanix, and Nutanix Mine with HYCU are expected to be available in calendar 2H of
2019. Nutanix Mine with Commvault, Veritas and Unitrends is expected to be available in a future release.
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(1) Gartner, “Report Highlight for Market Trends: Expand Your Software-Defined Storage Market by Leveraging Backup and
Archiving”, by Santanu Patro, July 2018, ID G00367503
Supporting Quotes:
“Our customers use our technology to protect their most critical applications, but have felt the pain points of having
their data backup operate in a silo, separate from the rest of their datacentre,” said Brian Brockway, Global CTO and VP
, Commvault. “With Nutanix Mine, those customers will be able to integrate their Commvault backup deployments into the
same platform as their primary storage environment and under the same management plane, eliminating the complexity of
siloed operations.”
“Nutanix and Veritas help enterprise customers abstract the complexity of managing infrastructure and data for
on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments,” said Cameron Bahar, Veritas Technologies CTO. “Our customers can
leverage Veritas’ enterprise data services platform to manage unforeseen business risks and protect their data while
benefiting from tight integrations with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, giving them a unified view of their
datacentre operations.”
“It is critical for our customers to make sure that they are striking a balance between a reliable data protection
solution that also simplifies IT processes, without sacrificing the solutions that work for their business,” said Joseph
Noonan, Vice President of Products and Marketing, Unitrends. “Through Nutanix Mine, our customers will benefit from a
solution which allows them to combine two things they love in their datacentre - the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
and Unitrends Backup Software - so they can manage their primary and secondary storage from within a single platform. It
gives them the choice to pick the solution that best fits for their environment while at the same time simplifying their
broader IT operations.”
Forward-Looking Statements
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regarding our business plans and objectives, new products, product features, services and technology that are under
development or in process, including Nutanix Mine, the capabilities of such products, product features, services and
technology, including expected third-party integrations with Nutanix Mine, and our plans to introduce such products,
product features, services and technology in future releases, including the expected availability of third-party
integrations with Nutanix Mine. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts and instead are based on
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statements, including, among others: failure to develop, or unexpected difficulties or delays in developing, new
products, services, product features or technology in a timely or cost-effective basis; delays in the availability of
the Nutanix Mine product and/or expected third-party integrations; the introduction, or acceleration of adoption of,
competing solutions; and other risks detailed in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for our fiscal quarter ended January
31, 2019, filed with the SEC on March 12, 2019. Our SEC filings are available on the Investor Relations section of the
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and distributed edge clouds so they can run any application at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost of
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