Acropolis 4.7 (Nutanix)
As CRN's Kevin McLaughlin noted in his post this week about Nutanix's latest moves, the company's new version of its Acropolis software represents a major broadening of the company's focus from hyper-convergence to enterprise cloud. One of the key pieces of the strategy is the addition of support for containers -- an alternative to virtual machines that is surging in popularity among application developers, as they run on any infrastructure without needing changes to code. The new tool should allow developers to containerize more of their applications, according to Nutanix. The new Acropolis Container Services will be available in July, the company said.
