Nutanix Intros Hyper Converged Infrastructure Management Platform, Own Hypervisor

At its inaugural .NEXT conference today Nutanix announced a management platform for its hyper converged infrastructure alongside a much-anticipated implementation of its own hypervisor that’s based on the open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine software. In addition, the company announced it has split its product portfolio into a Nutanix Acropolis infrastructure and Nutanix Prism management software. Included in the Acropolis platform is a new App Mobility Fabric software that enables IT organizations to convert one hypervisor into another, which Nutanix expects will be used to convert commercial hypervisors, such as VMware’s or Microsoft’s, to its new KVM implementation that has been hardened for enterprise application environments.