Lenovo and Nutanix Software are collaborating to build infrastructures that support private clouds, no doubt in effort to compete with Microsoft and Red Hat. This week, two more companies join together to bring the best private cloud service possible.
The new hyperconverged appliances will be sold by Lenovo and its partners. Nutanix is known to make units that converge storage, server and virtualization services to a ‘scale-out’ appliance, but Lenovo will look to implement their hardware onto the Nutanix software. Lenovo and Nutanix hope to make a simpler way of data center building and making its management easier. Nutanix claims that their method will lower ownership costs by creating modules in which moves are easier to make and manage.
This partnership will surely take advantage of Lenovo’s ties with Intel, and the company announced that it’s making significant investments to create a global sales team to support their new datacenter builders. According to Lenovo CEO Yan Yuanqing, Nutanix is well known for technology leadership, and the partnership between Lenovo and Nutanix will help reduce complexity in data centers of all scales.
This move is likely in competition with Microsoft and Red Hat’s partnership, which will probably take private clouds by storm for all businesses, but this partnership is also well fortified by Lenovo and Nutanix, two companies that are well known to have a good balance of hardware and cloud building and management.
