Nutanix deepens enterprise database play with MongoDB & NetApp integrations
Nutanix used its .NEXT Conference in Chicago this April to showcase the work it has been carrying out with its expanding number of partners. In real terms, the event have grown to almost double the number of partners and sponsors on show, which now number around 120.
Picking two pieces of news from the selection pack, the company has announced a certified integration between the Nutanix Database Service (NDB) platform and MongoDB Ops Manager (a centralised management tool for deploying, monitoring and backing up MongoDB clusters) – so this work combines infrastructure automation with database management.
The integration (GA now) enables MongoDB customers to streamline lifecycle management and data protection for business-critical environments.
Inside the box, we find capabilities for operational data, search and AI-powered retrieval. This integration is all about bringing functions together into a unified, policy-driven workflow.
“The integration between Nutanix Database Service and MongoDB Ops Manager delivers exactly what enterprise database teams have been asking for: seamless coordination between infrastructure and database operations,” said Ashish Mohindroo, SVP & GM, Nutanix Database Service, Nutanix. “By bringing together automated provisioning, operational visibility and coordinated backup and recovery, customers can reduce operational friction and achieve recovery times that can be measured in minutes.”
The integration is said to helps teams accelerate operations across the deployment lifecycle for faster and more consistent operations. Provisioning that once required multiday coordination across infrastructure and database teams can be reduced to minutes through automated workflows.
NDB Time Machine
Backup and recovery are coordinated through integration with MongoDB Ops Manager, while NDB Time Machine provides a snapshot-based recovery path designed for faster, more predictable outcomes. For data recovery, teams can use point-in-time recovery down to seconds.
“MongoDB customers want flexibility to deploy and manage their databases across hybrid environments,” said Olivier Zieleniecki, global VP of worldwide partners at MongoDB. “Many enterprises are turning to Nutanix Database Service (NDB) to manage their database operations. With its certified integration for MongoDB Ops Manager, our joint customers can now standardise their operations on NDB while maintaining the deep, MongoDB-specific intelligence and capabilities their applications depend on.”
Additional capabilities include automated sharded cluster provisioning, which allows users to deploy production-ready MongoDB sharded clusters with automated infrastructure provisioning, configuration and Ops Manager agent installation. NDB streamlines the workflow from infrastructure allocation through monitoring setup.
“As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journeys and inject AI into their business processes, the increased pace and complexity are making database resiliency a non-negotiable requirement. It’s imperative for organisations to move past simple backup to demand surgical precision in data recovery. The integration of
Nutanix Database Service and MongoDB Ops Manager deliver exactly this, offering the fine-grained control necessary to meet stringent recovery time objectives (RTOs). When you can provision databases in minutes and achieve point-in-time recovery down to seconds, you fundamentally change the risk equation for running business-critical environments at scale,” said Steve McDowell, chief analyst at Nand Research.
MongoDB Ops Manager also provides monitoring, alerting, and operational insights across the deployment. Combined with NDB’s infrastructure automation and visibility, teams can correlate compute/storage behaviour with database performance.
Nutanix & NetApp
A further significant partner alliance was detailed at .NEXT 2026, this time with NetApp, a company that these days styles itself as an intelligent data infrastructure specialist.
The companies will now integrate NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure, built on NetApp enterprise storage systems with the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution with the Nutanix AHV hypervisor.
A development scheduled for later this 2026, Nutanix and NetApp plan to offer customers greater choice to optimise their virtualisation and data strategies across on-premises, cloud and containerised environments. The new integration is designed to combine the data management capabilities of NetApp ONTAP (including its secure data foundation), with the unified hybrid multicloud operations of NCP.
“NetApp and Nutanix are enabling simple, secure and fast modernisation of virtualised environments,” said Sandeep Singh, SVP & GM of enterprise storage at NetApp. “Whether seeking to transform their virtualisation layer, data operations, or both, customers need Intelligent Data Infrastructure at the foundation. With our combined capabilities, NetApp and Nutanix will make it easy to run virtualised workloads at enterprise scale.”
Key aspects of the technology mechanics at work here include a combination of NCP with Intelligent Data Infrastructure built on NetApp technology to offer software engineering and data science teams a path to more modernise on-premises and cloud environments. The joint work is designed to allow customers to optimise storage while setting themselves up for future flexibility to support modern containerised workloads.
Speedy migration
NFS-based integration between NCP and NetApp ONTAP is designed to streamline VM migration to Nutanix, reducing complexity and accelerating time to value. Customers can look forward to faster data-in-place conversions of VMs measured in minutes with NetApp Shift toolkit and Nutanix Move, which will enable them to reach full operationality more quickly.
Management across NetApp ONTAP and NCP solution is expected to simplify the administration, troubleshooting and operational overhead typical of enterprise virtualised environments. The joint offering plans to offload data management to ONTAP to allow independent scaling of compute and storage. Organisations running NCP will benefit from the security, performance, resiliency and data mobility capabilities of NetApp ONTAP.
Moor Insights analyst Matt Kimball thinks that this collaboration reflects a broader industry shift toward solutions that combine infrastructure modernisation with intelligent data services. He says that Nutanix and NetApp are giving customers a long‑term, stable foundation that supports traditional virtualised workloads today and positions them for the cloud‑native, AI‑driven environments of tomorrow that will require data to be managed and used more effectively.
Key trends & takeaways
What should we think about all the strategic partnership work, then? Well, enterprise software vendors only ever have “strategic” integrations (there’s not much point in having non-deterministic ones after all), but these unifying actions are arguable of some reasonable substance.
Where we see Nutanix Database Service now get a certified integration with MongoDB Ops Manager, this is all about infrastructure automation (and of course, database management, because of MongoDB) and that is absolutely the theme of this of this year’s enterprise technology space as a whole i.e. we all want automation for workflows, but we want it working on the backend so that infrastructure itself benefits from automation. Where speed of provisioning and recovery (by which we mean point-in-time data recovery) can be maximised, that’s pretty much always a good thing.
The work with NetApp, combining NetApp’s ONTAP intelligent data infrastructure with the Nutanix Cloud Platform also looks fairly solid – and here we see faster VM migration, simplified operations and built-in ransomware protection – themes that don’t sit a million miles away from infrastructure automation as well. Perhaps most tellingly of all, Nutanix’s SVP for product and solutions marketing hosted an embargoed press call prior to .NEXT and spent a full five minutes taking journalists through the partner pages slides – and that was before the product announcements.
Nutanix sees the value in partnerships, clearly.
Nutanix CEO, Rajiv Ramaswami