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36 Next-Generation Hyperconverged Infrastructure For Dummies, Nutanix Special Edition These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. cloning from production to test/dev, and ensuring that they remain protected. This complexity is one of the reasons behind the rise in interest of database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platforms. Collapsing such a service into the next-generation HCI environ- ment would be a boon for database administrators. Fortunately, that's exactly what's happening today. Really! Nuta- nix includes in its platform a DBaaS solution called Era. With support for Oracle and PostgreSQL and more on the way, such as Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL, Era enables supported data- bases to leverage the cluster's snapshot technology for what amounts to a one-click time machine to allow you to recover to practically any point in time. Key benefits of Era include: » Increased business agility and innovation rate: Replace time-consuming and complex database operations with automated services, allowing resources to focus on business initiatives. » One-click database operations: Exercise enterprise-grade database management for all different database engines. » Application programming interface (API) first architec- ture with full operational visibility: Easily integrate with your preferred self-service tools. Embracing Secondary Storage Another hot topic today is the concept of secondary storage. As the name implies, secondary storage is anything that isn't pri- mary storage. Primary storage includes things like your latency- sensitive mission critical workloads. Secondary storage refers to workloads that are still important but may be less sensitive to a little more latency, such as backups, data analytics, and so on. Secondary storage has also come to mean that some level of data protection is included in the platform. What if you could get all of it — primary and secondary support with data protection — from a single platform?