With Era 2.0, Nutanix Launches Cloud Agnostic Multi-Database Management Solution

Nutanix, Inc. announced a cloud agnostic multi-database management solution.

Era 2.0 extends the company’s database management solution across clouds and clusters to simplify operations, with increased scale and reduced costs for IT and database teams. Additionally, the firm announced expanded support for Postgres and SAP HANA as well as a joint solution, powered by Era 2.0, with HCL Technologies Ltd., a technology company.

Era enables IT teams to deliver ‘Database-as-a-Service’ by bringing 1-click and invisible operations to database provisioning and lifecycle management. It’s a multi-database solution with support for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and MariaDB, in addition to Postgres and SAP HANA.

“Companies are increasingly looking for technology solutions to support their hybrid and multicloud strategies but, while some vendors deliver application mobility, we haven’t seen a lot of innovation when it comes to multicloud database management,” said Bala Kuchibhotla, SVP and GM, Era, databases and business critical Apps. “Nutanix Era now delivers on our vision to provide a cloud agnostic multi-database management solution to truly unlock the promise of hybrid and multicloud.“

“At HCL, we help our customers to accelerate their data and infrastructure modernization journey with a secure, scalable, and cloud-ready database as a service. Our industry acclaimed services powered by the Nutanix Era and HCI platform will provide enterprises with a world-class automated database platform,” says Kalyan Kumar, corporate VP and CTO, IT services, HCL. “We have a long standing relationship with Nutanix, and, with SKALE DB, we will move forward to help our customers optimize their data resources and support their digital initiatives.“

Era delivers simplified database management by combining the scalability and performance of the firm’s HCI software with the flexibility of cloud-ready database services.

With this announcement, the company delivers:

Simplified database management across distributed clusters and clouds
Era 2.0 enables customers to provision and manage databases across multiple clouds with tooling, standards, and security policies, giving them the flexibility to choose the right cloud for each database to increase agility and minimize cost. Era 2.0 also delivers operational simplicity across multiple distributed clusters and datacenters delivering scale and with 1-click provisioning, cloning, and patching. In addition to simplifying operation and minimizing costs with seamless data mobility across clouds, Era 2.0 enables new use cases including: leveraging public cloud for capacity bursting, dev/test, capacity remediation, and optimizing databases performance remotely.
Support for SAP HANA at scale
Era’s capabilities are extended to relational database engine SAP HANA. With this, customers can enjoy 1-click management experience for their SAP HANA deployments. The company solution was one of the first HCI platforms to be certified for SAP HANA scale-up and most recently scale-out, simplifying deployments for SAP business applications and data warehousing solutions on SAP HANA.
24×7 support of PostgreSQL
In addition, the company announced extended 24/7 support for Postgres to enable customers’ mission critical deployments. Unlike competitors, this includes an end-to-end support experience for the Postgres database engine in addition to the infrastructure platform and Era management services – all through the firm’s team – resulting in more rapid time to resolution.

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Fully ‘Managed Database-as-a-Service’ solution with HCL
For customers seeking a managed solution, the company partnered with technology company HCL, to create a joint offering powered by Era 2.0. SKALE DB, a joint offering by the two partners, enables enterprises to accelerate the data modernization with a secure and scalable Database-as-a-Service offering.

“With data sprawl where it is today, database management has gotten more complex than ever before. Organizations of all sizes are looking for solutions to simplify database operations, from initial deployment to ongoing management and maintenance,” said Mike Leone, senior analyst, ESG. “Era 2.0 delivers a cloud agnostic solution that can simplify database operations and help customers unlock the much needed value of data mobility.“

Era 2.0 and SKALE DB are available to customers.

Resources:
Era 2.0 take a Test Drive
Blog: Introducing A New Era in Database Management
ESG Technical Validation for Nutanix Era: Welcome to the new era of database management (registration required)
Forrester Total Economic Impact Study: Nutanix Era nets 291% ROI and a sub-6 month payback period (registration required)