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CHAPTER 4 Enabling Advanced and Modern Services 37 These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. That's one of the many goals of the Nutanix next-generation HCI vision, which encompasses far more services than primary storage. The point of secondary storage is to enable cloud-like scalability for your applications and imbue the environment with integrated data protection capability. This unified operating environment offers your organization increased simplicity and faster time to value for your services. Nutanix Mine brings all the benefits of a next-generation HCI solution to secondary storage. The company has partnered with a number of data protection companies — including Veeam, Veritas, HYCU, Commvault, and Unitrends — to provide comprehensive data protection services for primary and secondary storage needs. Automating Applications with Calm You've learned that next-generation HCI enables hybrid cloud. One of the key challenges in hybrid cloud scenarios is managing them both operationally and from a cost perspective. Problems can quickly spiral out of control if you don't put something in place to manage it all. This is where Nutanix Calm comes in. Nutanix Calm is a multi-cloud application orchestration and management framework that pro- vides application-level orchestration to transform how you deploy and manage IT operations. The point of Calm is to move beyond the VM as the primary entity and toward an application fabric that consists of VMs, containers, and cloud services. A blueprint-based process ensures consistency in ongoing deployments. Calm provides application automation and lifecycle management natively integrated into the Nutanix Platform. With Calm, appli- cations are defined via simple blueprints that can be easily created using industry standard skills and control all aspects of the appli- cation's lifecycle, such as provisioning, scaling, and cleanup. Once created, a blueprint can be easily published to end-users through the Nutanix Marketplace, instantly transforming a complex pro- visioning ticket into a simple one-click request. Key capabilities and benefits of Calm include: » Improve IT agility and eliminate human errors: Simplify the setup and management of custom enterprise applications by

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