For years, Nutanix Inc. has provided the infrastructure software to run multiple workloads. The company’s Nutanix Era software suite allows clients to automate database lifecycle management and provisioning, simplifying database management to a one-click process.

But Nutanix Era 1.0 is a single cluster solution. In 2020, data management demands more flexibility to make sure data is accessible when, where and by whom it is needed.

“That’s where database as a service is critical,” said Monica Kumar (pictured, left), senior vice president of product and solutions marketing at Nutanix. “It’s not just about having the database software … but how you make that service available to your stakeholders, to developers, to lines of business.”

In response to these growing demands, Nutanix released Era 2.0 for general availability today.

Kumar and Bala Kuchibhotla (pictured, right), senior vice president and general manager of Nutanix Era, databases and business-critical apps at Nutanix, spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the Nutanix: Introducing a New Era in Database Management virtual event. They discussed Era 2.0, multicloud database management, and automation. (* Disclosure below.)

Era 2.0 answers the call for multicloud database management

“A truly multicloud, multicluster, data management platform,” is how Kuchibhotla described the upgraded Era 2.0. Listing the improvements he noted that Era 2.0 is now a multi-cluster solution with the ability for customers to place clusters in the cloud and on-premises. The data management capabilities have also been extended, in what Kuchibhotla described as “global time mission with a data access management.”

Using the metaphor of building a dam across a fast-moving river in order to harness its potential, he also described how Era 2.0 enables database operators to harness the potential of data in flow, directing it securely in the right amounts to the right people, while retaining one-click accessibility.

“What customers want or what they’re looking for is this modern cloud platform that can really work across multiple cloud environments,” Kumar said.

In other news, the Nutanix database engine portfolios have been extended to allow customers to do a one-click sandbox creation into a SAP HANA environment … and Nutanix has become a vendor for open-source database PostgreSQL.

“Customers can enjoy the engine, platform, service all together in one single shot with a single 180 company that they can call and get the support they want,” Kuchibhotla said.

Cloud neutral portability for customer choice

Automating mundane grunt work has always been the goal of Era. Bringing it to a multicloud environment as database as a service adds the ability to impartially manage multiple databases.

“It’s not like, here’s my environment for PostgreSQL. Here’s my environment for MySQL. Here’s my environment for Oracle. Here’s my environment for SQL server,” Kumar stated. “The beauty we are talking about with Nutanix’s Era is it truly gives organizations that single environment to manage heterogeneous databases, apply the same automation and the ease of management across all these different environments.”

Along with that simplicity, Era 2.0 fulfills the cloud mandate by also lowering costs, according to Kuchibhotla.

“Bringing the cloud experience, bringing the enterprise governance … [and] at the same time, I’m super confident we can cut down the cost,” he said. “That is what Nutanix Era is all about across all the clouds, including the enterprise cloud.”

Watch the complete video below, and be sure to check out more of theCUBE’s coverage of Nutanix: Introducing a New Era in Database Management. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Nutanix – Introducing A New Era in Database Management. Neither Nutanix Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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