Integration and smooth application functionality across hybrid and multiple public clouds and frameworks are the core goal for Nutanix' latest releases. Credit: Golden Dayz/Shutterstock Hybrid cloud integration provider Nutanix is set to release three new features for its multicloud platform, aimed at simplifying complex environments and making application management simpler for IT teams. The first is Project Beacon, a centralization of the basic Nutanix Cloud Platform offering designed to deliver a unified experience for business applications across multiple public clouds. Where most PaaS services are tied to specific public clouds, according to the company, Project Beacon is designed to provide platform services for apps running different services wherever they might be, complete with Kubernetes integration. “Project Beacon is our vision for enabling developers to write applications once and run them anywhere by delivering data-centric PaaS level services that are no longer tied to a single infrastructure provider,” said Nutanix president and CEO Rajiv Ramaswami, in a company announcement made at the company’s annual .NEXT conference in Chicago today. Part two of the company’s releases are features enabling what Nutanix calls unified data services, which are designed to obviate the need for third-party tooling or in-house workarounds to get stateful Kubernetes applications to work with storage provisioning. The Nutanix Data Services brand will also encompass multicloud snapshot technology, designed to provide things like backup and disaster recovery for both containerized and virtual applications, as well as cross-cloud data migration. “This will also help many customers manage costs of their primary infrastructure, enabling them to easily store snapshots in a less expensive storage medium, and just as easily recover them, across any infrastructure,” the company said. Finally, Nutanix announced Nutanix Central, a single console for monitoring and management across a company’s entire infrastructure, whether it’s private cloud, public, hosted, or on-premises. The idea is to simplify the management of data and apps across complex infrastructure topologies. The dashboard will include alert summaries, metrics at the domain and cluster level, and include individual role-based access for security. Research firm Gartner rates Nutanix highly — it was a “visionary” in that company’s last on distributed file systems and object storage — in part because of its wide base of integration with the third-party ecosystem. Nutanix looks to be playing into that strength with today’s announcements. The company said that Nutanix Central will be available to customers as part of their Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure license, while Data Services for Kubernetes and Multicloud Snapshot are still under development. Messages asking for availability dates for Nutanix Central and Project Beacon had not been returned at the time of this writing. Nutanix declined to share pricing information on any of these products. Related content how-to Doing tricks on the Linux command line Linux tricks can make even the more complicated Linux commands easier, more fun and more rewarding. By Sandra Henry-Stocker Dec 08, 2023 5 mins Linux news TSMC bets on AI chips for revival of growth in semiconductor demand Executives at the chip manufacturer are still optimistic about the revenue potential of AI, as Nvidia and its partners say new GPUs have a lead time of up to 52 weeks. By Sam Reynolds Dec 08, 2023 3 mins CPUs and Processors Technology Industry news End of road for VMware’s end-user computing and security units: Broadcom Broadcom is refocusing VMWare on creating private and hybrid cloud environments for large enterprises and divesting its non-core assets. By Sam Reynolds Dec 08, 2023 3 mins Mergers and Acquisitions news analysis IBM cloud service aims to deliver secure, multicloud connectivity IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh is a multicloud networking service that includes IT discovery, security, monitoring and traffic-engineering capabilities. By Michael Cooney Dec 07, 2023 3 mins Network Security Network Security Network Security Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe