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    Azure Stack HCI

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers hyperconverged infrastructure solutions via Azure Stack HCI. Azure Stack HCI provides a variety of preferred hardware solutions for building a hybrid cloud infrastructure, allowing the user to run virtual machines on hyperconverged systems and use Windows Admin Center to connect to Azure for cloud services.

    $29

    per month

    Nfina Hybrid Cloud

    N/AN/ANfina is an IT infrastructure platform provider targeting small-to-mid-size businesses. Nfina Technologies supplies cyber resilience for business continuity. Their solutions and data protection services include edge, computer servers, HCI appliances, hybrid cloud, storage, IaaS, HaaS, STaaS, and DRaaS. Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud enables you to focus on your business goals while Nfina deals with the challenges of an optimized IT environment. The hybrid cloud solution from Nfina is presented…N/A

    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ANutanix in San Jose, California offers their software-defined Enterprise Cloud as a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. The Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution combines the Nutanix Acropolis virtualization solution, Nutanix AHV hypervisor (though Acropolis works with other hypervisors), Prism cluster manager, Nutanix Calm and Nutanix Flow server management, and is available on the Nutanix NX series of server hardware appliances, as well as third-party OEM appliances.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure Stack HCINfina Hybrid CloudNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Editions & Modules
    Developer
    $29.00
    per month
    Standard
    $100.00
    per month
    Professional Direct
    $1000.00
    per month
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Azure Stack HCINfina Hybrid CloudNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
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    8.5
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    9.0
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    8.2
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    9.3
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    8.6
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    8.5
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    9.7
    (54 ratings)
    In-Person Training
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    8.6
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    Online Training
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Stack HCINfina Hybrid CloudNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    It will be effective for an organization that is planning to deploy the application on the cloud and as well as on-premise. Organizations planning to work on hybrid-based can go for it blindly If looking for security it's an ultimate solution, being it is hybrid-based security is well enhanced.
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    For an organization that requires top-notch performance HCI, Nutanix is the best. You may start with 3 nodes and expand the cluster as required. The management through Nutanix Prism Central and Element was so easy that even a Junior Engineer was able to handle it. The Nutanix platform is not suitable for organizations with a small budget and fewer requirements for high-performance infrastructure, as the Nutanix solution itself is suited for enterprises.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Azure Stack HCI operating system
    • Windows Admin Center
    • Hyper-V-based compute resources
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    • One-click upgrades; whether it's hypervisor, firmware, disk or other updates. This feature has drastically decreased complexity and administration time.
    • Data Locality. Not all hyperconverged technology is created equal. When I first purchased Nutanix they were the only vendor (and as far as I know, still are) that made sure the storage a VM used was on the same host that VM was running on. Given a normal operating state, the [storage] network is literally only used for replication data.
    • They got rid of traditional RAID. Nutanix uses software to determine where a VM's storage should be written and replicated to. This dramatically decreases I/O when changing the number of nodes in a cluster, be it on purpose or during a failure scenario. Ex. adding a new node: If one uses RAID arrays then enough space has to be set aside to create a new array that includes the new node, then all the information has to be copied over, and the old array destroyed. RAID arrays do not grow and shrink gracefully so Nutanix has designed a better solution.
    • The Nutanix management interface was built on HTML5. No more flash headaches!
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Interruptions are there when the connection is low.
    • Improvement needed on Integration feature.
    • A lot of issues were faced while implementing.
    • Documentation should be clear and straightforward.
    • Improvement needed on Documentation.
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    • Can be priced high at times.
    • The one downside I have working with Nutanix is the sales team. They seem to try to add in extra goodies to sales quotes or push for extras that you don't really need and you have to tell them to take them out. Don't be afraid to push back on them.
    • Need to analyze sizing with sales team to ensure right sizing.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    AOS definitely make our dev/test virtual environment management much easier than before. And the consolidation the test/dev environment from Azure and Cisco UCS, we have less need to transfer large amount of data between different hardware platforms which was very big challenge. To expand the capacity is very easy to archive as well.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    It's not out of the box easy, but once you get the fundamentals the steep learning curve flattens out and the processes to get things done and how it works becomes very apparent. It's wrapping the slight change in workflow from prior VM management methods took time to unbox and apply the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure way
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    So far no issue on availability during no issue on network or power outage
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    Performance
    Microsoft
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    The performance is nothing short of amazing. This is an HCI solution, and as any all-flash HCI solution is amazingly fast, Nutanix AOS fills local IO requests until its local IO is saturated before reaching out over the network. This lowers latency substantially compared to vSAN.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    Our implementation team were great and worked with us and got the program up and running very easily. Every time we called post implementation we immediately talked to an Engineer, which is so unusual in dealing with companies. Everything they have promised they have full filled. I think their support is top notch.
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    In-Person Training
    Microsoft
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    We requested more training than typical which was very in depth
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    A lot of online training courses, most of them are free.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    IPv6 is needed for link local discovery. We do not have IPv6 configured on our network so the easiest way to get our nodes configured and discovered by foundation was to configure the IPv4 addressing within the node prior to trying to discover with foundation.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    We can deploy the application into windows and Linux virtual machines in the datacentre, Azure service. It provides the latest security, performance, and hybrid capabilities, which now include Azure Arc enablement and new management scenarios through the Azure portal. GPU enablement and maximizing performance of we can go virtual desktop infrastructure.
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    Nutanix integrates very well with Rubrik for backup and protection of the environment. Nutanix gave us simplicity and scalability compared to VMware and allowed us to extend our infrastructure into the cloud using EC2. One unified management pane for all our workloads, unlike VMWare.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    We have scaled our products over the years and continue to do so very easily.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • The upside is the integration feature.
    • Pricing is a little higher.
    • When compared with another platform, Azure Stack HCI is performing/ functioning brilliantly.
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    Nfina Technologies
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    Nutanix
    • We find that return on investment is probably a better metric in most cases.
    • ROI analysis is more than an exercise. Companies must outline what their future looks like, even if it’s vastly different from what they’re used to and comfortable with.
    • As good as your financial analysis might be, displacing status quo infrastructure has a lot of emotions tied to it.
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