Nutanix expands integration with ServiceNow to simplify IT operations and costs

The company announced new automation capabilities to help customers simplify IT operations during a global crisis

Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced further integration with ServiceNow, a leading digital workflow company, and a new release of Nutanix Calm, the company’s DevOps application automation and management solution. Features. When customers want to simplify their IT operations and costs during this global crisis, these new features will help customers simplify and automate infrastructure, application and cloud management.

Nutanix Chief Technology Officer Rajiv Mirani said: “Because the IT team focuses on providing remote working solutions, sometimes they will try to provide more extensive support for the business due to the constraints of time and resources.” “Strengthen integration with ServiceNow and wider The Nutanix suite of automation solutions will enable IT teams to reduce the time spent on day-to-day management of cloud infrastructure and applications, so they can focus on information that supports business priorities.”

Although you can save costs and increase speed by automating repetitive operations, manual processes are still the norm in IT departments. It is estimated that by 2024, organizations will combine super-automation technology with redesigned operating procedures to reduce operating costs by 30%. This transformation may be accelerated in response to the current global situation. A survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that 62% of organizations are considering cost control, while 54% of organizations are worried about the potential or significant impact of the global pandemic on business operations.

Nutanix aims to simplify automation and make it easier for IT professionals at all levels to use it. With Nutanix, IT experts will be able to simply set up triggers and automatic actions to simplify daily operations. By integrating with leading automation solutions (such as ServiceNow), Nutanix customers can simplify workflows by integrating with existing IT ticketing systems, thereby further simplifying cloud and application management. Through these latest product enhancements, Nutanix aims to significantly expand the suite of automation and cost management advantages for customers.

In order to further support the IT team, Nutanix announced enhanced integration and product features to simplify operations. especially,

• Simplified DevOps: Nutanix Calm 3.0 will provide expanded functionality and enhanced ServiceNow integration. Customers can now use ServiceNow’s approval process and review capabilities to automate their application lifecycle, including upgrades, patches, extensions, and more. They can also improve their security status by maintaining passwords in the central CyberArk vault, which is especially important for government and corporate customers. In addition to enhanced integration, Calm 3.0 also enables DevOps teams to easily automate workloads in an organization’s hybrid cloud infrastructure, and provides infrastructure as code (IaC) with Python-based domain-specific language (DSL) capabilities to write Calm blueprint. Calm DSL provides all the rich functions of Calm UI, but there is an additional benefit, that is, the human-readable version control code can handle even the most complex applications.
• Simplified infrastructure management: Nutanix Prism Pro customers can now respond to alerts and events directly in their ServiceNow portal, building on the previously announced integration with ServiceNow. For example, customers can not only track infrastructure shortages or problems through tickets automatically created in ServiceNow, but they can also resolve them in the ticket system. Adding third-party applications to trigger automation can help customers create end-to-end IT service management processes.
• Simplified cloud governance and cost optimization: Enhanced integration with ServiceNow will enable customers to simplify cost optimization and security practices, just as they increasingly rely on public clouds. For example, they will be able to limit unexpected public cloud use, which usually leads to substantial budget overruns. Using this solution, customers will be able to automatically create tickets based on cost-saving recommendations and security breach alerts and assign them to the appropriate owners, thereby being able to automatically introduce Nutanix Xi Beam’s cost and security optimization recommendations into existing ServiceNow workflows .

Customers can now use the extended ServiceNow integration. Calm 3.0 is currently being developed.

Customers who want to learn more about creating IT resilience during the change period can register for the upcoming webinar.

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