Nutanix has extended its Nutanix platform with new features around big data and analytics, as well as unstructured data storage. The new capabilities will be part of the Nutanix Objects 2.0.

They will include the ability to manage object data across multiple Nutanix clusters for achieving massive scale, increased object storage capacity per node, and formal Splunk SmartStore certification.

The enhancements add to Nutanix’s cloud platform which is optimised for big data applications, to deliver performance and scale, and help to maintain cost by maximising existing, unused resources.

According to the company, there is a demand for such capabilities as more companies look to efficiently manage extremely large volumes of unstructured data as well as analyse the data in real time to extract business insight.

Companies are reliant on business data to create personalised customer experiences. This results in IT teams struggling with siloes, complexity, and operational inefficiencies.

Options currently available do not offer secure, end-to-end solutions to run big data applications that can easily scale, Nutanix states.

As such, Nutanix’s software puts a focus on scale, performance and simplicity as well as in-built automation and simple operations with the idea of enabling data scientists, security teams and businesses to focus on extracting value from data.

New features for running big data workloads includes increased scale-out object storage with multi-cluster support, deeper storage nodes with up to 240TB of storage and enhanced security.

Nutanix VP of product marketing Greg Smith says, “Every company is striving to become a data-driven company. In addition, Nutanix offers a subscription licensing model to enable greater flexibility.

“By natively integrating object storage services with Nutanix’s HCI solution, IT teams can now leverage unused resources to reduce costs and streamline storage management and administration.

“Big data applications require incredible scale and performance at competitive cost structures. The Nutanix platform, with the addition of multi-cluster object storage, offers a compelling solution for unstructured object storage that leverages existing storage resources for improved storage economics.”

IDC research director at the storage team Amita Potnis says, “Digital transformation requires web-scale storage for enterprise workloads.

“Object storage is rapidly becoming the storage of choice for next gen and big data applications. As object storage makes the leap from the cloud to the data centre and mission critical workloads, economics must be balanced with performance.

“Nutanix is known for flexibility and simplicity. Multi-cluster support and certification with Splunk SmartStore with Nutanix Objects will allow for massive scale at the right price and performance that these workloads require.”

Furthermore, Nutanix Objects is now certified by Splunk as SmartStore compliant allowing customers to simply and seamlessly manage Splunk data growth with Nutanix Objects.

Joint customers can now run Splunk workloads on Nutanix software, and leverage Nutanix Objects for built-in object storage to support their Splunk environment. New capabilities included in Nutanix Objects 2.0 are now generally available.

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Nutanix has enlarged the capacity of its object store, deepened Splunk integration and improved inviolable archiving to give users more control of the unstructured data fire hose.

The company’s aims for Nutanix Objects 2, launched today, is to make Nutanix systems more attractive for big data analytics by storing, managing and using more unstructured data at lower cost.

Nutanix has corralled a quote from Amita Potnis, research director in IDC’s Storage team: “Object storage is rapidly becoming the storage of choice for next gen and big data applications. As object storage makes the leap from the cloud to the datacenter and mission critical workloads, economics must be balanced with performance.” 

Scale up and out

Nutanix Objects 2.0 supports 240TB capacity nodes, which is 1.8 times more than the existing NX-8155-G7’s 135.36TB capacity. Put five of these 240TB nodes in a cluster and you scale up to 1.2PB of raw object capacity.

The upgrade adds a single object namespace across clusters to enlarge an object store to massive scale, according to Nutanix. IT admins manage the namespace from a single console and they can add unused – ‘stranded’ -storage capacity in a set of clusters to an object store. improving effective costs. The degree of improvement that can be achieved is dependent on available stranded capacity.

WORMs and Splunk

Nutanix Objects already supports write-once-read-many (WORM) storage to prevent written objects being changed. A WORM object is stored as a specific numbered version, and any update attempt creates a newer version. Nutanix Objects 2.0 makes this easier with users able to to lock content without enabling versioning.

Splunk software is used to ingest machine-generated data, index it, search for patterns and analyse the data. A SmartStore function acts as an indexer that uses locally-cached data or remote object stores, either on-premises or in an S3-compliant cloud. Nutanix Objects 2.0 is integrated with SmartStore so joint customers can run Splunk workloads on Nutanix software, and use Nutanix Objects for the object store.

Nutanix Objects 2.0 is generally available.

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