Latin America. Nutanix announced that its Enterprise Cloud Platform software will be available as a fixed-term license for deployment on Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) ProLiant servers and Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers, adding to previously announced support for the Cisco UCS C-Series platform.
With this announcement, Nutanix responds to the growing demand from large enterprises and service providers for a more flexible way to obtain the leading Enterprise Cloud Platform™ software platform, while creating new opportunities for its ecosystem of channel partners and system integrators for the commercialization of its products in the market.
These new software options will increase Nutanix's deployment potential beyond newly acquired devices from the company or its global OEM partners, Dell and Lenovo, for the millions of HPE ProLiant and Cisco UCS servers already in use in corporate data centers or in the cloud.
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform will soon be available as a Nutanix-branded or OEM-branded integrated appliance or installed as software only on qualified x86 platforms from third-party companies that we consider to be the four largest enterprise server manufacturers that collectively account for more than 52% of the global unit-based server market sold and sold more than 5 million servers in 2016.
Enterprise cloud builders need flexibility and hardware platform options while maintaining a consistent and agile operating environment. Customers will enjoy the ability to deploy newly licensed Nutanix software-only capabilities on qualified HPE or Cisco servers while retaining the option to transfer their software-only capabilities to another qualified third-party platform, including additional x86 servers that are anticipated to be validated at a future date. This flexibility mitigates the risk of hardware commoditization while maximizing the value of your Nutanix software-only licenses.
Beyond hardware options, cloud builders also need the ability to mix consumption models when building and scaling their cloud environments. For this, Nutanix also announced a new program called Nutanix Go, which can deliver an enterprise cloud infrastructure using operating budgets and enable flexible upscaling or downstream of the infrastructure. This program will align the public cloud shopping experience, allowing customers to free themselves from long-term capital budget commitments.
As the de facto infrastructure choice for more than 5,300 customers in more than 100 countries, Nutanix will provide the largest number of hardware options and consumption models when building enterprise clouds. Data center teams can define the right hardware and procurement model for the enterprise and still gain the same consumer-class operational experience across their infrastructure.
This operating system for all data centers is the culmination of eight years of advanced development to build a scale Web software architecture based on APIs and compatible with virtually all workloads, including virtualized container-based and basic servers.
