Dell and Nutanix team up for ‘hybrid multicloud’

Dell Technologies and Nutanix have launched a new partnership in an effort to help customers “streamline” private and hybrid multicloud deployments. 

The partnership will see Dell sell an integrated turnkey hyperconverged appliance combining Nutanix Cloud Platform and its own servers. 

As part of the deal, the companies will collaborate on engineering, go-to-market, support and services. 

Dell's PowerFlex software-defined storage rigs will also be part of the joint solutions in a move Nutanix said will allow customers to “be able to seamlessly extend Dell’s linearly scalable storage to Nutanix software”. 

The solutions will be sold by Dell sales teams and partners worldwide, Nutanix revealed at its Next conference in Barcelona. 

“Enterprises are managing a growing number of applications across on-premises, public cloud and at the edge and looking for a unified platform to run their legacy and containerised applications,” said Tarkan Maner, chief commercial officer at Nutanix. 

“This expanded collaboration will enable Dell and Nutanix joint customers to benefit from increased flexibility, simplified operations and strengthened resilience.”     

Arthur Lewis, president of Dell’s infrastructure solutions group, said the deal will give customers the “benefit from the performance and resiliency of the Dell solutions along with the flexibility and ease of use of the Nutanix Cloud Platform”. 

Lewis claimed this was because customers needed to adopt a “multicloud approach on their own terms with their preferred cloud solution vendor”. 

The joint solutions from Dell and Nutanix are under development and will be available to customers in early access later this year. 

Eleanor Dickinson attended Next as a guest of Nutanix.