Nutanix continues to significantly transform its Nutanix Cloud Platform solution following the latest announcement that it will offer support for Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop in hybrid environments, significantly increasing flexibility. This will allow organizations to run Azure Virtual Desktop locally, on top of the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, providing much more flexibility for deploying and managing virtual desktops.
With this announcement, both companies want to better respond to the changing needs of distributed workforces, as well as offer IT teams more infrastructure options, optimizing control, performance, security and cost efficiency.
“Nutanix Cloud Platform provides a high-performance, resilient, cost-effective and secure infrastructure foundation for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) workloads,” said Tarkan Maner, Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix. “This collaboration with Microsoft will offer our customers greater flexibility and more virtual desktop options, both to modernize their on-premise environments and to migrate to the hybrid cloud.”
Secure connection with Azure
Azure Virtual Desktop for Hybrid Environments addresses critical compliance and regulatory requirements in key industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, where data residency and sovereignty are critical. Customers will also benefit from running Azure Virtual Desktop locally on Nutanix AHV, while using Azure Virtual Desktop management and brokering on Azure Arc-enabled servers to securely connect to Azure.
Nutanix is expanding VDI options, allowing organizations to tailor their environments to their needs
Key benefits of Azure Virtual Desktop for hybrid environments over Nutanix AHV include:
- Hybrid Flexibility: combine on-premise performance with the scalability of Azure for greater on-demand and disaster recovery capacity.
- Ability to run Microsoft applications: native support for Microsoft 365, optimizations for Teams, Microsoft Login, and security services.
- Optimized performance: ideal for latency-sensitive and graphics-intensive workloads.
- Cost efficiency: Take advantage of existing Microsoft licenses and Nutanix infrastructure for more predictable costs.
“Azure Virtual Desktop is designed to deliver a secure, scalable, and 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 offer customers more flexible options, whether for cloud or on-premises deployments, all without compromising security or licensing efficiencies.”
Unified management plan
Nutanix is expanding VDI options, allowing organizations to tailor their environments to their needs without being locked into a single deployment model. Nutanix Cloud Platform support for Azure Virtual Desktop is currently under development.
With it, organizations can quickly and more flexibly create a hybrid cloud with a unified management plan, ensuring easy management of applications and data wherever workloads reside: on-premise, at the edge or in the public cloud. Consistent management, skillset, tools, networks and security expertise further simplify IT operations.
