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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Chapter 1 Understanding Enterprise IT Challenges
• How Enterprise IT Groups Are More Challenged Than Ever
• Driving new revenue opportunities
• Shifting from a technology to a business mindset
• Enabling innovation
• Supporting digital transformation
• Optimizing costs
• Addressing constantly emerging security concerns
• Understanding Datacenter Architecture Options
• Why three-tier infrastructure is a one-trick pony
• Stumbling across public cloud challenges
• Converged infrastructure versus problem-solving
• Introducing hyperconverged infrastructure
• Finding the hybrid cloud sweet spot
• Chapter 2 Defining and Extending Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Discovering Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Identifying performance, resilience, and scalability features
• Delineating hardware and software in HCI
• Implementing a fractional consumption model
• Realigning IT silos toward business outcomes
• Expanding beyond Storage Virtualization
• Solving the unstructured data management problem
• Providing persistent storage for containers
• Enabling deep application integration
• Connecting and securing HCI with a smart networking fabric
• Streamlining infrastructure operations with advanced machine intelligence
• Taking the On-Ramp to Enterprise Cloud with Next-Generation HCI
• Chapter 3 Supporting Workloads Anytime, Anywhere
• Operating Workloads On-Premises and in the Cloud
• Enabling Mission-Critical Workloads
• How Next-Generation HCI Solves the ROBO Challenge
• Making VDI a Reality
• Decreasing Application Time-to-Value
• Improving Critical Datacenter Metrics
• Supporting Big Data
• Flash and Next-Generation HCI — Savior of the Universe
• Chapter 4 Enabling Advanced and Modern Services
• Supporting Multiple Storage Types
• Bringing Containers into the Enterprise
• Supporting the Database-as-a-Service Era
• Embracing Secondary Storage
• Automating Applications with Calm
• Enabling the Internet of Things
• Chapter 5 Having Freedom to Choose without Compromise
• Choosing Your Model: Software versus Hardware
• Choosing Your Hypervisor
• Choosing Your Cloud
• Chapter 6 Securing Next-Generation Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Implementing Data at Rest Encryption
• Supporting Regulatory Compliance
• Delivering Application-Centric Security with Micro-segmentation
• Chapter 7 Ten Capabilities and Benefits of Nutanix Next-Generation Hyperconverged Infrastructure
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