Nutanix aims to “simplify automation and make it more accessible”.
Cloud computing company, Nutanix has expanded its portfolio with digital workflow company ServiceNow, as well as capabilities in Nutanix Calm — application automation and management solution for DevOps.
Nutanix aims to “simplify automation and make it more accessible” to IT professionals at all levels, with the added services.
According to Nutanix integration with automation solutions like ServiceNow allows Nutanix customers to further simplify cloud and application management by integrating with their existing IT ticketing system to simplify workflows.
Product capabilities also include:
Simplified DevOps: Customers can automate their app lifecycles, including upgrades, patches, expansions and more, while taking advantage of the approval flow and audit capabilities of ServiceNow. They can also increase their security posture by maintaining passwords in a central CyberArc vault, particularly important for government and enterprise customers.
Simplified Infrastructure Management: Builds on the previously released integration with ServiceNow, Nutanix Prism Pro customers can now respond to alerts and incidents directly in their ServiceNow portal. For example, customers can track infrastructure shortages or issues through automatically created tickets in ServiceNow. They can also resolve them right in their ticketing system. Adding third-party applications to trigger automation helps customers create an end-to-end IT service management process.
Simplified Cloud Governance and Cost Optimisation: Customers will be able to limit unintended public cloud consumption which often leads to significant budget overages. With this solution, customers will be able to automatically pull Nutanix Xi Beam’s cost and security optimisation recommendations into existing ServiceNow workflows, by automatically creating tickets based on cost savings recommendations and security vulnerability alerts and assigning them to an appropriate owner.
Rajiv Mirani chief technology officer at Nutanix said, customers look to streamline their IT operations and costs during this global crisis, these new features will help customers to simplify and automate infrastructure, application, and cloud management.
“As IT teams focus on delivering remote work solutions, they sometimes struggle to support the business more broadly because they are strapped for time and resources,” he said.
Manual processes are still the norm in IT despite the cost savings and increased speed from automating repetitive operations, said Mirani.
“It is expected that by 2024 organisations will lower operational costs by 30 per cent by combining hyperautomation technologies with redesigned operational processes, a transition that might accelerate in response to the current global situation,” he said. According to a PwC survey, 62 per cent of organisations are looking at containing costs and 54 per cent are concerned about the potential or significant impact to business operations as a result of the global pandemic.
