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Nutanix, a pioneer in hybrid multicloud computing, announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025 that its Nutanix Cloud Platform solution will support Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop for hybrid environments. This will enable organisations to run Azure Virtual Desktop on premises on the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, offering a new level of flexibility in how virtual desktops are deployed and managed. This effort aims to meet the evolving needs of distributed workforces and will give IT teams more infrastructure choices while optimising control, performance, security, and cost efficiency. Nutanix Cloud Platform “The Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers a performant, resilient, cost-efficient, and secure infrastructure base for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) workloads,” said Tarkan Maner, Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix. “This collaboration with Microsoft will empower our customers with more options for virtual desktops, whether they’re modernising on premises or extending into hybrid cloud environments.” Critical compliance and regulatory requirements Azure Virtual Desktop for hybrid environments addresses critical compliance and regulatory requirements in industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government, where data residency and sovereignty are paramount. Customers will benefit from running Azure Virtual Desktop locally on Nutanix AHV while using the Azure Virtual Desktop brokering and management stack on Azure Arc–enabled servers to connect securely to Azure. Key benefits of Azure Virtual Desktop Key Benefits of Azure Virtual Desktop for hybrid environments on Nutanix AHV will include: Hybrid Flexibility: Combine on-premises performance with Azure scalability for burst capacity and disaster recovery. Ability to run Microsoft applications: Native support for Microsoft 365, Teams optimisations, Microsoft Entra, and security services. Optimised for Performance: Ideal for latency-sensitive and graphics-intensive workloads. Cost Efficiency: Leverage existing Microsoft licencing and Nutanix infrastructure for predictable economics. Nutanix support for Azure Virtual Desktop “Azure Virtual Desktop is built to deliver a secured, scalable, and deeply integrated experience with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Windows,” said Scott Manchester, Vice President of product for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop at Microsoft.  “Nutanix support for Azure Virtual Desktop will give customers more choice, whether they deploy in the cloud or on premises—without compromising on the modern security model or licencing efficiencies.” Possibilities for VDI Nutanix is expanding the possibilities for VDI, which will enable organisations to tailor their environments to meet business needs - without being locked into a single deployment model. The Nutanix Cloud Platform’s support for Azure Virtual Desktop is currently under development.

Dell Technologies announces significant private cloud infrastructure advancements to help customers manage both traditional and modern workloads with greater speed, efficiency, and security. Many IT teams struggle to handle the demands of both traditional and modern workloads while dealing with rising costs, evolving virtualisation needs, and vendor lock-in concerns. Organisations are adopting disaggregated private clouds built with virtualisation-optimised compute, storage, and cyber resilience solutions that provide greater flexibility, choice, and control over their data. Managing private cloud deployments Integration of Dell NativeEdge into the Dell Automation Platform provides a full-stack solution  Dell Private Cloud, delivered through the Dell Automation Platform with on-premises and SaaS deployment options, helps customers easily automate, scale, and manage private cloud deployments using their preferred cloud OS stack and Dell disaggregated infrastructure, including PowerStore, PowerFlex, and PowerMax. Customers can use AI-driven automation for infrastructure management and monitoring.  Additionally, integration of Dell NativeEdge into the Dell Automation Platform provides a full-stack solution optimised to simplify and secure operations across distributed cloud and edge environments. Storage and cyber resilience are key to any private cloud. Dell is introducing significant innovations in these areas to help customers build smarter, faster, and more secure private clouds. Dell PowerStore Dell PowerStore delivers simple, enterprise-grade, high-performance storage tightly integrated with modern virtualisation platforms and adaptable for containerised environments. The Nutanix Cloud Platform solution will soon support Dell PowerStore, combining Dell’s trusted storage innovation with Nutanix’s cloud operating model to meet customer demand for greater choice and control in how they deploy infrastructure. PowerStore’s latest hardware and software advancements deliver greater cost-efficiency, AI-accelerated automation, and enhanced resiliency. Enterprise performance, lower costs: PowerStore 5200Q offers high-capacity performance with the economics of QLC flash, flexible scaling up to 25PBe per cluster and optimised workload placement through integration with existing PowerStore clusters. Software-driven security and resiliency: Improve enterprise security and resiliency with built-in anomaly detection, single sign-on and biometric authentication, HashiCorp key manager support, and replication over fibre channel. AI-powered self-healing: Cut issue resolution time by 90% through automated health checks and repairs powered by Smart Support Auto-Heal functionality. Dell PowerFlex      Dell PowerFlex, the industry’s most resilient software-defined block storage, offers flexible, software-defined storage that scales linearly and features deep virtualisation and Kubernetes integrations. The PowerFlex Ultra release introduces the Scalable Availability Engine (SAE), which drastically simplifies workload management and reduces costs with improved efficiency and reliability. Reimagining software-defined storage: PowerFlex’s Scalable Availability Engine (SAE) is built on a native block, fully distributed, erasure-coded architecture that delivers breakthrough storage efficiency, resiliency, and scalability for software-defined data centres.  Extreme storage efficiency: Achieves up to 80% storage efficiency with over 50% reduction in physical storage footprint, allowing organisations to store more data in less space while lowering costs and power consumption. Data availability and resiliency: Delivers up to 10x9s of data availability with the ability to tolerate up to two node failures simultaneously, ensuring enterprise workloads remain operational even during hardware failures while maintaining data integrity across large-scale deployments. Dell PowerMax Dell PowerMax offers mission-critical storage with enterprise-class scalability, automation, and resiliency with broad integrations for virtualised environments and full Kubernetes CSI support for container workloads. Software advancements deliver up to 25% greater performance, advanced automation, and enhanced security for mission-critical environments. Enhanced automation: Free up IT teams to tackle higher-value tasks with features like 1-click software updates in less than 6 seconds, zero-touch management installs and the ability to achieve up to a 66% reduction in steps for replication mode changes. QLC support: PowerMax 2500 introduces QLC drive support for capacity-intensive workloads while delivering flexible single-drive scaling from 122TB to 8.8PBe per array. Advanced security: The world’s most secure mission-critical storage platform now includes features like Single Sign-On with Microsoft Entra ID and encrypted email alerts to ensure the highest standards of data protection and compliance. Dell PowerProtect Dell PowerProtect offers cyber resilience for virtual, cloud-native, and containerised workloads across data centres and every major public cloud, helping ensure rapid recovery to keep businesses running without disruption. The latest appliance and software innovations help organisations reduce their attack surface, detect and respond to threats, and quickly recover from cyber incidents. Entry-level appliance, enterprise-level security: The new PowerProtect Data Domain DD3410 is a compact solution for remote offices and smaller environments with exceptional data reduction capabilities, grow-in-place scalability from 8 to 32 TBu, and advanced security to keep data safe. The appliance supports a broad partner and backup software ecosystem and native integration with Dell PowerStore and PowerMax. Unified cyber resilience experience: The new PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance is a modern, software-defined solution that delivers centralised management for consistent operations. It enhances cyber resilience with enterprise-grade protection, including anomaly detection, data immutability, and integrity to safeguard against disruptions and threats. The Data Manager Appliance is the best way to achieve cyber resilience with Dell PowerProtect. Perspectives "At Dell Technologies, we’re empowering our customers with solutions that not only meet today’s IT challenges but also anticipate tomorrow’s needs,” said Travis Vigil, Senior Vice President, ISG Product Management, Dell Technologies. “Our latest storage and cyber resilience advancements are designed to help organisations build private clouds that are smarter, more secure, and ready to handle the demands of both traditional and modern workloads." Virtualised environments "With our Nutanix Cloud Platform soon supporting Dell PowerStore, we will be giving customers a new choice in how they architect their virtualised environments,” said Thomas Cornely, Senior Vice President, Product Management at Nutanix. “This integration will deliver an enterprise-grade solution that meets today’s demands for flexibility, while allowing organisations to build confidently with Dell infrastructure." Dual challenge "Organisations today face the dual challenge of managing traditional and modern workloads while navigating rising costs and evolving IT demands,” said Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia. “Dell’s latest advancements in storage and cyber resilience provide a comprehensive and flexible foundation for disaggregated private cloud environments, empowering businesses to achieve greater efficiency, security, and scalability across their IT operations." Availability Dell Private Cloud is available with support for Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerFlex, and Dell PowerMax. Dell NativeEdge integrated with the Dell Automation Platform is available. Dell PowerStore 5200Q will be available in October 2025. Dell PowerStore software updates will be available in October 2025. Dell PowerStore support for Nutanix will be available in early access in Spring 2026. Dell PowerFlex updates will be available in October 2025. Dell PowerMax updates are available in October 2025. Dell PowerProtect Data Domain DD3410 will be available in Q1 2026. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance will be available in Q4 2025.

Nutanix, a pioneer in hybrid multicloud computing, announced it has been recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. The recognition marks Nutanix’s third time in this Magic Quadrant, and its second time as a Leader. Lee Caswell, SVP, Product & Solutions Marketing at Nutanix, said, “We feel our positioning on both vision and execution in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure is a direct reflection of our relentless focus on innovation and customer success.” Customers to deploy AI NCP solution enables organisations to run applications and manage data anywhere The Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution enables organisations to run applications and manage data anywhere, including through an expanded public cloud presence supporting Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and, most recently, the public preview of Google Cloud. It also supports external storage and Kubernetes®, and enables customers to deploy AI. Organisations worldwide, including across the financial services, healthcare, public, manufacturing, and retail sectors, are using NCP. Virtual desktop infrastructure California-based First Foundation Bank is an NCP customer and uses the platform to enable a hybrid environment for disaster recovery of its virtual desktop infrastructure. Adrian S. Darmawan, EVP and CTO at the bank, said, “The most valued feature of NCP is its scalability. If there is a disaster, more machines can be spun up quickly. With NCP, our capex is also lower since it is elastic, and we can turn on our disaster recovery solution during tests or when it is actually needed. We also benefit from licence portability because no matter where our machines or servers are located, we are able to licence the compute and storage.”