Nutanix Adds Power Monitoring to Help Customers Track Sustainability Progress

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Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX) has announced new capabilities in its Nutanix Cloud Platform, providing visibility into power consumption to help organizations with their sustainability goals. This new feature, available in Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), allows customers to monitor real-time power usage and visualize energy metrics within their Nutanix dashboard. According to Nutanix, 88% of organizations prioritize sustainability, but often struggle to measure energy use accurately. The new tool aims to provide detailed power and energy usage data, enabling better sustainability planning and decision-making. On average, Nutanix customers reported a 70% reduction in physical footprint and a 50% reduction in energy consumption when using NCI.

Positive

• New power consumption monitoring feature in Nutanix Cloud Platform.
• Helps organizations track real-time energy metrics to support sustainability goals.
• 88% of organizations prioritize sustainability, according to Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index.
• Nutanix customers reported a 70% reduction in physical footprint and a 50% reduction in energy consumption.
• Functionality integrates with Nutanix's X-Ray benchmarking tool to provide power and energy information.

Negative

• The functionality is currently under development, which may delay its immediate benefits.
• Organizations may still face challenges in accessing comprehensive IT resource data due to complex modern IT systems.

New Power Consumption Dashboard visualizes platform power consumption to support environmental initiatives

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- .NEXT Conference – Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced new capabilities in Nutanix Cloud Platform that will deliver visibility of the power consumption of a Nutanix environment. This will help organizations improve sustainability planning with power consumption based on measurements from the hardware in use, updated in near-real time. Customers will be able to visualize power metrics in their Nutanix dashboard and better understand energy utilization across their environment.

“Energy efficiency metrics are increasingly important for IT infrastructure personnel looking to optimize resources and meet sustainability goals,” said Steve McDowell, Chief Analyst, NAND Research. “Active monitoring of power metrics is an exciting new tool for Nutanix customers struggling to achieve their environmental goals.”

According to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index, 88% of organizations agree that sustainability is a priority and many are taking active steps to implement sustainability initiatives, with the most common being modernizing IT infrastructure. However, organizations often struggle with being able to accurately measure and plan their energy use, and by extension carbon emissions, across their IT estate. Modern IT systems are complex, often involving a mix of on-site servers, co-located platforms, and service provider hosting. This complexity can often make it difficult to access data and insights that would help inform consumers of IT resources of their energy, and wider resource use.

Included in Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), this new functionality will help customers simplify this process by providing more detailed information on their energy usage rather than estimations based on assumptions or “typical” consumption values. It also builds upon recently released capabilities in Nutanix’s X-Ray benchmarking tool providing power and energy information for comparison alongside other performance metrics (CPU, Memory, IOPS, etc.) for real-world scenarios. This can help customers better understand the power and energy usage for specific simulated workloads and make more informed decisions based on the best available data.

“Organizations across the world have been benefiting from the server-based, webscale architecture of the Nutanix Cloud Platform to actively reduce their datacenter energy consumption,” said Thomas Cornely, SVP, Product Management at Nutanix. “This new functionality in Prism Central allows customers to visualize real time power usage metrics and report historical data in support of our customers’ sustainability goals.”

Nutanix Customers Highlight Reduction in Energy

With sustainability in mind, IT practitioners strive to strike a balance of performance and efficient delivery of apps, data, and compute. Technologies such as virtualization, containers, and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) consolidate workloads onto fewer physical devices, reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions compared to traditional infrastructure. On average, Nutanix customers who shared their experiences using the NCI solution, the HCI-based building block for the Nutanix Cloud Platform, reported over a 70% decrease in physical footprint and a 50% reduction in energy consumption versus their legacy systems¹. A reduction in energy consumption can lead to a lessening in carbon emissions, helping to minimize the environmental burden of an organization's IT systems.

The power consumption dashboard is currently under development and is the first step to providing users of the Nutanix Cloud Platform with more information and tools to better support their sustainable IT initiatives. More information can be found here.

Additional Resources:

• Blog: Empowering-sustainability-with-a-modernized-infrastructure
• Blog: New X-Ray Power & Metrics Part 1

About Nutanix

Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software, offering organizations a single platform for running apps and data across clouds. With Nutanix, companies can reduce complexity and simplify operations, freeing them to focus on their business outcomes. Building on its legacy as the pioneer of hyperconverged infrastructure, Nutanix is trusted by companies worldwide to power hybrid multicloud environments consistently, simply, and cost-effectively. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on social media @nutanix.

© 2024 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. Nutanix, the Nutanix logo, and all Nutanix product and service names mentioned herein are registered trademarks or unregistered trademarks of Nutanix, Inc. (“Nutanix”) in the United States and other countries. Other brand names or marks mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s). This press release is for informational purposes only and nothing herein constitutes a warranty or other binding commitment by Nutanix. This release may contain express and implied forward-looking statements, which are not historical facts and are instead based on Nutanix’s current expectations, estimates and beliefs, including statements about: capabilities and functionality of Nutanix Cloud Platform and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, including the power consumption dashboard. The accuracy of such statements involves risks and uncertainties and depends upon future events, including those that may be beyond Nutanix’s control, and actual results may differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied by such statements, including, among others: failure to develop, or unexpected difficulties, delays or disruptions in developing, releasing or distributing, new products, services, product features or technology in a timely or cost-effective basis. Any forward-looking statements included herein speak only as of the date hereof and, except as required by law, Nutanix assumes no obligation to update or otherwise revise any of such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. Certain products and features or functionalities described herein, including the power consumption dashboard, remain in varying stages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. The development, release, and timing of any such products, features or functionalities are subject to change. Nutanix will not have any liability for any failure to deliver or delay in the delivery of any such products, features or functionalities. Any future product or product feature information is intended to outline general product directions, and is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation for Nutanix to deliver any functionality. This information should not be used when making a purchasing decision.

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¹ These space or energy savings claims are average results based on case studies of over 50 representative Nutanix customers. Such case studies are publicly available on the Nutanix website. Because potential customer outcomes depend on a variety of factors including their use case, individual requirements, and operating environments, these accounts should not be construed to be a promise or obligation to deliver specific outcomes. We invite you to contact Nutanix here to discuss how we may be able to provide an optimal solution for your specific circumstances

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Gabrielle Moynan

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Source: Nutanix, Inc.

FAQ

What new feature did Nutanix announce for its Cloud Platform?

Nutanix announced a new power consumption monitoring feature for its Cloud Platform to help organizations track energy usage and support sustainability goals.

How will the new Nutanix feature help organizations with sustainability?

The new power consumption dashboard will allow organizations to visualize and monitor real-time energy metrics, aiding in sustainability planning and decision-making.

What percentage of organizations prioritize sustainability according to Nutanix?

According to Nutanix, 88% of organizations prioritize sustainability.

What reductions have Nutanix customers reported using the NCI solution?

Nutanix customers have reported a 70% reduction in physical footprint and a 50% reduction in energy consumption using the NCI solution.

What tool does the new Nutanix functionality integrate with?

The new functionality integrates with Nutanix's X-Ray benchmarking tool to provide power and energy information.