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There is no doubt that the sudden outbreak of the epidemic last year has further amplified the importance and urgency of reshaping the operation and maintenance capabilities of enterprises. Enterprises have begun to re-examine their digital resilience in an uncertain environment, and this has also put forward new requirements for their business operation and maintenance capabilities and digital experience.
For example, how can an enterprise's infrastructure and business-critical systems ensure continued stability and continuity in an unpredictable environment? Under the trend of digitalization and intelligence, the operation and maintenance needs of enterprises are accelerating the transformation to operation requirements. How can the traditional operation and maintenance model cope with new changes to support the transformation of enterprise business value? More importantly, how can enterprises promote the rapid transformation of services and the upgrading of user experience through technological innovation?
Don't panic, with the "blessing" of Nutanix Prism, enterprises can complete the management and operation and maintenance of infrastructure in a "one-click" way. Through "one-click" upgrade, "one-click" virtualization platform conversion, one-click operation and maintenance, one-click hypothesis prediction and other functions, it can complete intelligent optimization of capacity, proactive monitoring and resolution of abnormal situations, and automatic execution of repair and operation tasks.
Three new challenges for traditional operation and maintenance
We know that in recent years, the core digital systems of enterprises have become more and more open, with more and more innovative scenarios, and higher requirements for application performance and user experience. Therefore, this has also brought great challenges to the traditional operation and maintenance of enterprises.
Indeed, in a recent ESG survey, ESG asked organizations what are the most important goals in their digital transformation plans? More than half (55%) of the respondents identified improving operational efficiency as an important goal, which was the most frequently mentioned answer. So, what are the main aspects of these challenges? It can be observed from three dimensions:
First of all, the operation and maintenance objects are getting bigger and bigger. With the acceleration of enterprise digital transformation, more and more application systems are added to enterprises today. At the same time, as the scale of online business expands, application systems are continuously refined and split, and the number of components is also increasing. As a result, the scale of operation and maintenance objects has become very large. Behind this, operation and maintenance personnel need to devote more energy to guarantee and maintain the system. However, traditional operation and maintenance modes, such as manual operation and maintenance of operation documents, manual operation and maintenance of scripts, classified operation and maintenance by system type, and a large number of personalized and special operation and maintenance, etc., but with the expansion of scale, there are more and more operation and maintenance objects , the difficulty of enterprise management has also increased exponentially.
Secondly, the operation and maintenance requirements are getting higher and higher. When the scale of enterprise infrastructure is small, basic software installation, daily change and maintenance, etc., can be completed by only a few operation and maintenance personnel. However, as the scale of the enterprise grows, higher requirements will be put forward for operation and maintenance.
Finally, there are more and more users of operation and maintenance services. In a traditional enterprise environment, O&M only serves R&D, and R&D serves business departments, and the service users are relatively single. But now many companies have set up multiple R&D centers and testing centers, and are constantly expanding branches, which have independent application system construction requirements. In this case, the operation and maintenance personnel of enterprises need to face various user environments and various user needs, which can be described as "increasing pressure".
From this perspective, the business value of traditional operation and maintenance in the past was mainly to keep the infrastructure running safely and stably, just to keep the system "alive". However, in the new environment, the enterprise's operation and maintenance goals must not only be "alive", but also live better. This involves infrastructure, operation and business agility, as well as fast, efficient and secure delivery of applications anytime, anywhere. Therefore, only by completing the transformation from operation and maintenance to operation can enterprises change from passive to active.
Giving infrastructure "intelligence"
It is precisely because of this that, as a global enterprise cloud software leader and an inherent market disruptor, Nutanix has always stood at the forefront of technology and applications, and is constantly iterating and evolving with changes in the times and business needs. Among them, Nutanix Prism, an intelligent automation solution for enterprise infrastructure, can optimize virtualization and infrastructure management through predictive analysis and task automation, and help enterprises improve the efficiency of operation management. Its functions and advantages mainly include the following aspects:
First, the single management is intuitive and simple. Nutanix Prism helps organizations manage their entire infrastructure environment from a single, concise console. Simplify monitoring and patching operations with an end-to-end, application-centric view of the network, from every node in the cluster, down to VM-specific details. Plus, maintain control over resources with role-based access control (RBAC) and automate workflows with Nutanix Prism's comprehensive REST API.
Second, task automation without programming. Nutanix Prism's X-Play also connects intelligent signals to automated operations, enabling operations teams to automate routine operational tasks without writing code, immediately improving operational efficiency. X-Play automatically analyzes the usage of all virtual machines, detects offset cases and corrects configuration problems without any administrative intervention.
The third is real-time discovery and application monitoring. Nutanix Prism provides real-time, agentless application discovery with visibility across the entire application stack. At the same time, Nutanix Prism also simplifies monitoring by collecting and analyzing application metrics, and with industry-leading behavioral learning and anomaly detection capabilities, speeds up root cause analysis and reduces the average time to solve infrastructure-related application problems.
Fourth, predictable capacity and cost management. Nutanix Prism predicts the capacity needs of applications and clusters, enabling growth-on-demand scaling. Nutanix Prism also has a cost control function powered by Xi Beam to help users manage and analyze the cost of Nutanix and cloud environments, and with automatic budget alerts and algorithmic forecasts, it becomes "easy" to track infrastructure size and spending.
It can be said that Nutanix Prism truly eliminates management islands by providing a single intelligent view of the global infrastructure. Among them, Prism for IT management can realize the management of computing, storage, and network, while Prism for IT operations can help enterprises monitor infrastructure, understand the real-time behavior of virtual machines and automatically detect abnormalities. At the same time, it can also operate tasks in an automated manner, and ultimately improve the efficiency of enterprises.
It is worth mentioning that at the .NEXT conference held last year, Nutanix also released an enhanced version of Prism Ultimate for infrastructure operations management, which can enhance insights and automation functions for advanced applications to solve application-related infrastructure bottlenecks. In addition, the new version can also clearly understand the consumption of cloud resources, so as to reduce the cost of enterprises in a targeted manner and formulate more accurate budgets.
Not only that, Prism Ultimate can also monitor non-Nutanix environments (such as popular virtualization stacks), thereby providing Nutanix customers with a single control interface to monitor the entire infrastructure stack, thereby achieving unified management capabilities.
The ESG report also confirms that Nutanix Prism intelligent operation and maintenance management and Calm automation technology can save a lot of costs for enterprises, improve productivity, and enhance the recovery and flexibility of enterprise IT and business practices. And end users say Nutanix Prism and Calm save valuable time in monitoring, planning and managing their environments, enabling them to create blueprints that allow others to leverage their expertise to quickly and securely deploy new applications. According to user feedback, the productivity of different processes within the IT organization has increased by 2x to 10x, resulting in a significant acceleration of time to market (TTM). Not only that, ESG predicts that when using Nutanix Prism and Calm to automatically deploy workloads, applications and services, it can save up to 91% of operating costs.
It can be seen that Nutanix Prism helps enterprises eliminate bottlenecks, simplify operations, reduce risks, and provide applications with a faster time to value realization, which ultimately greatly improves the operational efficiency of enterprises and accelerates the digital transformation of enterprises.
O&M upgrade, transformation and upgrade
In fact, today, Nutanix's powerful enterprise cloud platform and intelligent automation solutions not only provide new platform and new architecture support for more and more enterprises, but also provide a new upgrade paradigm for the transformation and upgrading of enterprise operation and maintenance management. It can be said that it has further strengthened the digital capabilities of enterprises to cope with uncertain environments.
For example, in the manufacturing industry, Suzhou Jinlong United Automobile Industry Co., Ltd., a leading Chinese bus manufacturer, deployed Nutanix's hyper-converged infrastructure and enterprise cloud operating system software solutions. The deployment and delivery time of the company's core business systems has been greatly shortened, IT system management efficiency has doubled, and the space and power consumption of the entire cabinet has been reduced by more than 60%. At the same time, the company's IT team now uses Nutanix Prism to monitor and manage the enterprise environment from one console, covering storage, computer infrastructure, and workloads, greatly improving the reliability and stability of the enterprise's core systems.
In the medical industry, the Second People's Hospital of Yueqing, as a second-class general hospital with 10 branches, has also realized the transformation and upgrading of its infrastructure by deploying the Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure solution, which not only meets the hospital's own information construction needs, builds an "Internet +" smart hospital, but also supports the successful implementation of the "Medical Community" project.
Among them, in terms of medical community construction, the Yueqing Second People’s Hospital has adopted 10-node Nutanix NX-8035 series hyper-converged equipment, including 6 nodes as the production end and 4 nodes as the disaster recovery end. At the same time, Nutanix Prism Pro management software is deployed to manage the two clusters in a unified manner, which facilitates remote operation of the information department for software updates and fault maintenance. The data shows that with the help of the management functions provided by Prism, the hospital’s core business deployment and delivery time has been shortened by 50%, while the system performance has been greatly improved, and the front-end hospital’s business needs can be quickly responded to. In addition, through further integration of hospital equipment resources, unified operation and maintenance management has been realized, and IT management efficiency has increased by 40%.
In the chemical industry, in order to further improve the standardization and security system capabilities of information management, Wanhua Chemical launched a variety of information systems, which put a lot of pressure on the current operation and maintenance management, especially the unified control and expansion capabilities of the original IT system cannot meet the growing business development needs. To this end, Wanhua Chemical built a brand-new enterprise cloud operating system by deploying Nutanix and Nutanix Prism Pro management interfaces, which helped managers understand the usage of each node more conveniently and intuitively, and improved management efficiency by more than 50%. Also, with the resource expansion of Nutanix Prism Pro, its access to new nodes is more efficient and can save up to 60% of deployment time.
In general, different industries have the same choice. From the digital transformation of these customers above, we can see that with the deepening of digital transformation, enterprise operation and management has become "imminent", and intelligent and automated solutions are "the trend of the times." Therefore, where there is infrastructure operation and management, Nutanix Prism is needed. In the future, greater innovation, imagination and practical ability in enterprise intelligent operation and maintenance management are also waiting for Nutanix Prism to redefine, re-innovate and re-develop .
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Shenyao's Science and Technology Observation was founded by Shenji, a self-media person who crosses the border between technology and automobiles. He has 18 years of experience in enterprise-level media work, focusing on the observation and thinking of industrial Internet, enterprise digitalization, channel ecology, and automobile technology content.
