Nutanix, a global provider of enterprise cloud computing solutions, has unveiled Karbon Platform Services, a Kubernetes-based multi-cloud Platform- As-a-Service (PaaS) with automated system-managed security, to accelerate the development and deployment of microservices-based apps across any cloud.
The offering provides software developers with a turnkey managed services experience, on-premises, in the public cloud and at the Edge, to build and run cloud-native applications while enabling them to decouple applications from the underlying infrastructure.
According to the vendor, the announcement marks a significant milestone for Nutanix as it looks to expand offerings aimed at accelerating enterprises’ cloud-native journeys.
Kubernetes, along with its ecosystem of cloud-native technologies, continues to rapidly evolve, making it increasingly difficult to implement without extensive technical resources.
“IT resources are the engines that power digital enterprises. But as a company scales, adopts hybrid cloud and manages an increasing number of applications, supporting engineering needs can be challenging for IT,” said Rajiv Mirani, CTO, Nutanix. “With Karbon Platform Services, we aim to simplify application development and orchestration while streamlining the relationship between IT and development teams to support our customers’ DevOps strategies.”
This new cloud-native PaaS will help software engineers to streamline application development and orchestration without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. Karbon Platform Services builds on the core Kubernetes lifecycle management capabilities initially introduced with Karbon as an integrated component of the Nutanix HCI software.
Damien Pasquinelli, CTO, Hardis Group, said: “We were looking for a single PaaS platform that could host our Reflex and Vision Insights on both the Edge and in our private cloud, to take advantage of both a distributed architecture as well as support software development and machine training on the public cloud. Karbon Platform Services delivers the richness of services we need in a PaaS solution, along with the simplicity and ease of management Nutanix is known for – across clouds.”
Pasquinelli added that: “Implementing Karbon Platform Services has allowed our Vision Insights development and DevOps teams to go from zero to prototype in less than a quarter of the time it previously took. This software running on Karbon Platform Services is already in production for customers like Schneider Electric, a leading global specialist in energy management and automation.”
Bob Laliberte, Practice Director and Senior Analyst at ESG Research, said the complexities of Kubernetes and multi-cloud infrastructure management can not only overwhelm IT operations teams, but also limit the resources and tooling available to modern application software developers.
“With Karbon Platform Services, Nutanix abstracts infrastructure complexity and delivers a managed Kubernetes, containers, and a host of essential developer services in an easy, readily-consumable PaaS environment. And given that 70% of customers we’ve recently surveyed prefer the combination of public cloud and private data centre for containerised applications, Karbon Platform Services satisfies that desire for flexibility with its global control plane and simple multi-cloud management capabilities,” he said.
