Nutanix - you do not need SAN storage in your virtual infrastructure

Nutanix was Founded by Dheeraj Panday in 2009, provide virtual computing platform.

Flagship product

Nauanix Virtual Computing Plateform

Features

• Web-scale IT using map-reduce, NoSQl, zookeeper, cassandra database, paxos 
• Support all major hyperwiser - KVM, vSphere, HyperV on commodity server/node
• Nautanox Controller CM (CVM - run stargate  )is deployed on all hyperviser and serve all I/O of hyperviser and it's VMs
• Standard x86 system with SSD and standard disk used a node
• Disk are aggregated in a single resource pool and used for Nutanix Distributed Filesystem (NDFS)
• Infrastructure can expand in small increment by adding one node at a time
• 100% software-defined -  no dependency on hardware
• Self-healing - failed component will be removed/replaced transparently without degrading application or data availability

Reference

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ji8VKqg_E
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutanix
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2013/10/26/will-dheeraj-pandeys-nutanix-be-the-next-vmware-of-the-datacenter/

Egenera - next level of data center infrastructure automation

Egenera products are created to virtualize data center infrastructure and create highly available private/hybrid/public cloud.

Flagship product PAN Manager (processing area network)

• virtualize and interconnect 
• computing resource ( Physical and Virtual)
• storage resource
• network resource
• create shared pool of all resource
• provide central interface to manage everything
• manage redundancy of hardware failure (N+1 disaster recovery)
• automatic failover 
• can use Dell, HP,IBM, Fujitsusystems
• can use virtulization platform KVM, Hyper-V, Xen, vSphere

Flagship product BladeFrame

• Egenera  hardware product - blade servers + storage + network  - in single package
• Create virtual pool of compute, storage and network resources into a Processing Area Network

Other Product PAN Domain Manager and became PAN Cloud Director

• Above 3  products makes Egenera Cloud Suite

References

-Introductory video
http://www.egenera.com/videos/egenera-pan-manager-overview.htm
-Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egenera