Interview: Nutanix Xi Frame desktop-as-a-service offering now in SA

Enterprise cloud computing specialist Nutanix this week launched its desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering in the South African market – an opportune time given the Covid-19 pandemic and the work-from-home measures currently in place.

To discuss the launch of Xi Frame and what it means for local enterprises, TechCentral is joined in this promoted episode of the podcast by Paul Ruinaard, regional sales director, Craigh Stuart, chief technology officer, and Andrew Senior, cloud architect, all at Nutanix in sub-Saharan Africa.

The conversation starts with Ruinaard defining the DaaS market and how it’s evolved. Stuart then discusses the history of Xi Frame up to its acquisition in 2018 by Nutanix.

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The announcement means that South African customers will now be able to deliver virtual apps and desktops to clients no matter where they are, provisioned via the public cloud or hosted within their Nutanix-powered data centre.

“It is going to be very hard for businesses to put the work-from-home genie back in the bottle, which has created the requirement for virtual workspaces that can safely and seamlessly integrate with companies’ data, applications and storage environments,” said Ruinaard about the South African launch of the technology solution.

“Xi Frame is a proven technology that has enjoyed extensive success globally. Now, with the local launch, we are providing South African businesses with a multi-cloud DaaS offering that will deliver the flexibility needed to better manage and deploy remote desktops, helping customers build better business resiliency for their organisations, today and beyond the current pandemic.”

Xi Frame is available for on-premises use or through the local Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services data centres.

Listen to the podcast discussion to learn more about how Xi Frame works in practice, its security and authentication model, and why DaaS technology is set to gain much greater traction in the future – and not only because of Covid-19.

 

           

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Pilot episode | The Best in Tech: ‘Logitech’s big SA push’

Enterprise cloud computing specialist Nutanix this week launched its desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering in the South African market – an opportune time given the Covid-19 pandemic and the work-from-home measures currently in place.

To discuss the launch of Xi Frame and what it means for local enterprises, TechCentral is joined in this promoted episode of the podcast by Paul Ruinaard, regional sales director, Craigh Stuart, chief technology officer, and Andrew Senior, cloud architect, all at Nutanix in sub-Saharan Africa.

The conversation starts with Ruinaard defining the DaaS market and how it’s evolved. Stuart then discusses the history of Xi Frame up to its acquisition in 2018 by Nutanix.

Listen to the podcast


The announcement means that South African customers will now be able to deliver virtual apps and desktops to clients no matter where they are, provisioned via the public cloud or hosted within their Nutanix-powered data centre.

“It is going to be very hard for businesses to put the work-from-home genie back in the bottle, which has created the requirement for virtual workspaces that can safely and seamlessly integrate with companies’ data, applications and storage environments,” said Ruinaard about the South African launch of the technology solution.

“Xi Frame is a proven technology that has enjoyed extensive success globally. Now, with the local launch, we are providing South African businesses with a multi-cloud DaaS offering that will deliver the flexibility needed to better manage and deploy remote desktops, helping customers build better business resiliency for their organisations, today and beyond the current pandemic.”

Xi Frame is available for on-premises use or through the local Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services data centres.

Listen to the podcast discussion to learn more about how Xi Frame works in practice, its security and authentication model, and why DaaS technology is set to gain much greater traction in the future – and not only because of Covid-19.

 

           

TechCentral podcasts are governed by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence.

Interview: Nutanix speaks out on cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure

In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral is joined by Nutanix vice president for customer success Pai Venugopal and regional sales director Paul Ruinaard for a discussion on hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, and its importance in enterprise cloud computing.

In the podcast, Venugopal talks about the Nasdaq-listed company’s focus, where it’s positioned in the market and why HCI has become a hot-button topic in enterprise IT — particularly as companies consider their options around cloud.

Venugopal and Ruinaard talk about the somewhat surprising findings a new global survey, Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud Index, the results of which were released this week at the company’s .NEXT on Tour event in Johannesburg, and why companies are again looking to on-premise and hybrid solutions in favour of a wholesale shift to the public cloud.

Ruinaard talks about what the survey says about local enterprise customers in the context of the global results and the discussions he’s typically having with them.

Interestingly, for 60% of enterprises, security is the biggest factor in their cloud decisions.

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