Nutanix, which has evolved software-defined hyperconverged into a form of hybrid and private cloud control plane, is taking the logical next step with new support of the economic and durable storage of public cloud. It is extending the control plane for storage to include cloud object and cloud block (file) storage. The company developed this with the use cases of storage tiering and disaster recovery in mind.
Nutanix’s moves are in line with growing demand for the operational simplicity of the cloud control plane anywhere from public cloud to on-premises.