Protecting Enterprise Applications in (“Nutanix”) Style

Authors: Sachin Chheda, Dwayne Lessner, Prabu Rambadran & Mike McGhee October 21, 2015

In the Enterprise Strategy Group 2015 Report on IT Spending Intent, 26% of the respondents indicated that improving data backup and recovery was one of their top priorities for the next 12 months. From the same pool, 23% rated business continuity/disaster recovery programs as a priority for their organizations.Data protection and business continuity is big business in IT. Organizations world wide have spent billions of dollars a year with vendors such as Symantec (soon to be Veritas), IBM, HP, and EMC to protect their valuable application data and ensure continuity through disasters. Even the storage vendors like NetApp have jumped in, seeing an opportunity to help customers ensure better RPO and RTOs over traditional OS agent centric approaches used by the likes of EMC, IBM Tivoli and others.So why would we here at Nutanix write about data protection and disaster recovery for your critical enterprise applications? Because it is in our engineering DNA and we want to save you time, money, and frustration which you are seeing with your current setup. Starting at the platform level and extending up to the storage, virtualization and management stacks, Nutanix has designed in features and functionality to create a highly available, self healing solution that delivers the right service levels for your applications and VMs—without the costs or the management overhead. The figure below provides a summary of the different features and functionality in the Nutanix solution. This list is growing fast with new enhancements made in every release.Over the past year or so, Nutanix has introduced numerous, innovative features aimed at minimizing downtime and ensuring IT can meet service levels. These features have already had a positive impact on VM/application uptime. In a recent study of 13 Nutanix customers IDC found that on average, downtime was reduced by 97% and the management overhead was reduced by 71% versus previous legacy deployments