About Nutanix

Nutanix is a cloud platform that simplifies and unifies hybrid multicloud infrastructure Providing a single, simple, open software platform for all hybrid and multi-cloud applications and their data. Reducing the complexity and cost of IT operations with hyper-converged infrastructure and intelligent automation

Delivering faster insights and performance with modern database management and analytics

Cloud Operating System leveraging Data Visualization and Design to simplify operations

Note: Due to NDA and sensitivity, some sections of these projects are not available in public forum.
1. Nutanix Beam: Designing for Trust and Insights for Cost Governance

Nutanix Xi Beam provides visibility and rich analytics detailing cloud consumption patterns, along with one-click optimizations, across both public and private clouds.

Xi Beam identifies idle and under-utilized cloud resources, delivers specific recommendations to resize infrastructure services, and uses machine intelligence- driven algorithms to provide reserved instance purchase recommendations for deep cost savings.

Project 01: Nutanix Beam Overview

Rethinking product flows and insights to assist in cost governance for cloud spending across platforms.


Key Users

Chief Finance Executives (CFOs), Financial Operators (FinOps)


Key Considerations

Leveraging existing design and keeping scope limited to existing or possible data


Solution

SaaS web interface with redesigned visualization addressing scale and usability

Role

Data Visualization & Experience Designer


Contribution

Team of 2 designers, UX Flows, Data Visualization


Project Duration:

6-8 Months


Project Status

Concepts and Phased Execution

Rethinking product flows and insights to assist users reduce cloud spending across cloud platforms.
Design Approach

Research:
Consuming design research driven by Beam team
Define:
Comprehending and evaluating pain point
Design:
Design: Rapid high fidelity wireframing
Evaluation:
Usability test of designs with stakeholders and target audience.

Users

Admins

  • Financial Operations
  • Managers
  • Leaders (CFOs, CIOs)
    • Considerations

  • Leveraging existing design and keeping scope limited to existing or possible data
  • Scope of this project only restricted to Financial Operations and Managerial operations have been considered.

    • Key Operations

    Monitoring

  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Executing Recommendations
  • Reports and Summaries

    • Key Insights

    Painpoints

  • Designing for trust
  • Navigation
  • Book of records
  • Better anomaly handling
  • Better Recommendations

    • Visualisation Graphs and Widgets to Assist


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    Reflections

    Closer integration of dashboard can be done with more ML related metrics. Like pattern recognition. Recommendation engine can be more prudent to help the users.

    Key Learning

    Ask questions on how to they are making decisions by seeing any data sets.
    Keep labels and values consistent.
    Scaling proportionally or responsively is the question.
    Colours plays a huge role in deciding the dashboards.
    Iterate and Iterate again. Closer integration with in-house user can help.
    Not all user feedbacks are useful. If user is asked what he wishes, user may ask anything or everything.
    Collaborating with management and engineering team helps with faster closure

    2. Disaster Recovery Visualization for Enterprise

    Visualization for Enterprise Disaster Recovery(DR) infrastructure intends to assists user with simple reference tool to manage and troubleshoot complex enterprise DR infrastructure. The Visualization UI is a multilayer visual representation. It constitutes of geographic, topological, diagrammatic views, supported by dynamic and contextual information pane.

    The visualization user interface provides information and feedback about constituting entities or components, relationships, ongoing events, configurations and alerts. It supports deep down, progressive and contextual information to perform required actions to assist with infrastructure management and troubleshooting.

    02 Project Overview: DR Visualization

    Simplify and enable user to monitor and perform failover of operations easily and quickly.


    Key Users

    DR Admins, Operations team


    Key Considerations

    Defining more easy way to do route cause analysis


    Solution

    SaaS web interface with redesigned visualization mapping mental models

    Role

    Data Visualization & Experience Designer


    Contribution

    Sole Designer, UX Flows, Data Visualization


    Project Duration:

    6 Months


    Project Status

    Patented and Framework Executed

    Reimagine Disaster Recovery Management to empower user with better situational awareness
    1 Patent Granted
    Presented as part of CEO Leadership pitch
    Reflections

    Nutanix DR Visualization is available in Prism Central, which is a centralized management console for multiple Nutanix clusters. Patent Granted for DR Visualization as part of internship project. The same was submitted as thesis at NID.

    The project was challenging, however there were enough instances to keep the spirits high and get going. The same project was tested as part of .NEXT at New Orleans in 2020.

    3. Nutanix Flow: Visualization for microsegmentation and security

    Nutanix Flow provides advanced network security for applications and data in private and public cloud environments. It allows you to easily create, visualize, and manage software-defined networks that isolate and protect your workloads from network threats, malware, and ransomware.

    It also helps you to comply with regulatory standards and integrate with third-party network functions. Nutanix Flow provides a detailed visualization of communications between VMs and helps you to categorize and group workloads for setting the right network policies

    03 Project Overview: Nutanix Flow

    Nutanix Flow is a product that provides advanced network security for applications and data in private and public cloud environments. Nutanix Flow provides a detailed visualization of communications between VMs and helps you to categorize and group workloads for setting the right network policies.


    Solution

    SaaS web interface with redesigned visualization addressing scale and usability

    Role

    Data Visualization & Experience Designer


    Contribution

    Lead, UX Flows, Data Visualization


    Project Duration:

    8-12 Months


    Project Status

    In Production

    Simplify and scale configurations of workloads by setting the right network policies.
    Differentiator

    Security offering on Nutanix
    Centralized management with distributed enforcement
    Application centric policy management
    Monitoring, visualization and automation
    Distributed stateful firewalls

    Workflow Mapping


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    Reflections

    Reduced complexity
    Nutanix Flow is fully integrated into the Nutanix private cloud solution.
    Improved efficiency
    Nutanix Flow reduce the manual effort and human errors involved in network security operations.
    Enhanced compliance
    Nutanix Flow gives visibility into the security posture of your applications and data
    Extended functionality
    Nutanix Flow allows to integrate with third-party network functions and tools to expand the functionality of Nutanix Flow.

    Featured

    Featured in TechTarget


    "The visualizations greatly simplify policy management and make it easy to understand how they're being applied. Organizations likely won't choose between VMware vs. Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructures based only on how microsegmentation is implemented. If they do, they'll probably weigh Flow's simplicity against NSX's extensive feature set."


    Microsegmentation networking: Nutanix Flow vs. VMware NSX HCI
    4. Ops Analytics and Strategic Dashboard

    India Operations dashboard intends to support in depth briefing to stakeholders ranging from executives to managers. Its is a web interface and can be extended to mobile. It support varied operations and analysis on Key Performance Indicators such as recruitment, innovation, human resource, events and college relations.

    04 Project Overview: Nutanix Operations Dashboard

    Operations dashboard to assist strategic decision making for higher management of Nutanix.


    Key Considerations

    Exisiting Libraries, Dashboard for reporting, analysis, insights gathering for strategic decision making.


    Target Users

    Chief Officer (CEO, COO, CTO) Senior Directors and Managers

    Role

    Lead Designer and Mentor


    Contribution

    Lead, UX Flows, Data Visualization


    Project Duration:

    8-12 Months


    Team

    Team of 2 design interns


    Project Status

    In Production

    Assist strategic decision making through insights and situational awareness
    Operations KPI

    Recruitment
    Patents
    People
    Events
    Projects
    College Hires

    Insight Analysis and Triggers

    How is the innovation and delivery over the period of time
    How many new recruits did we hire (this year and across years while showing trend line chart)
    How many interns declined our offer and did not join the internship.
    Of the joined interns what was the conversion percentage.
    Which tenure is giving us a better conversion (including a college + tenure combination)
    If the same college has both 2 and 6 month internships - which is working better for us.
    How many NCGs declined our offer Of the declined how many were direct hires and how many were Intern Conversion College/College group wise
    How is the break up of the following
    Number of Offers - Intern Conversion and NCG Decline rates
    Trend of how we have hired
    Across college groups
    Between Direct hire and intern conversions

    Dashboard
    Reflections

    Increased accountability and faster closure.
    Used for weekly reporting and analysis in executive sync up.
    Live Project with 2 months from design inception.
    Received appreciation award from the SVP, India Head Base for reporting to CEO and make strategic decisions.

    Key Learnings

    Be clear with data sets, deal with dimensions and measures.
    Ask questions on how to they are making decisions by seeing any data sets.
    Standardise the values format.
    Keep labels and values consistent.
    Design for different resolutions, 1280 is good to practice.
    Scaling proportionally or responsively is the question.
    Colours plays a huge role in deciding the dashboards.
    Iterate and Iterate again.

    Highlights and Reflections
    4 Design Patents
    Display Screen or Portion thereof with Graphical User Interface for Data Chart

    US D931304 S • Issued Sep 21, 2021 • Data chart with summarized view for anomaly detection​

    Display Screen or Portion thereof with Graphical User Interface with Topological Map​

    US D931305 S • Issued Sep 21, 2021 • Topological Map for root cause analysis and troubleshooting. ​​​

    Display Screen or Portion thereof with Graphical User Interface Configurator for Alert Management​

    US D911356 S · Issued Feb 23, 2021 • UI Configurator using anomaly detection and alert via visualization​​

    Display Screen or Portion thereof with Graphical User Interface for Disaster Recovery ​

    US D908137 S · Issued Jan 19, 2021 • UDesign patent: Visualization for Enterprise Cloud Disaster Recovery Infrastructure​

    Featured

    "The visualizations greatly simplify policy management and make it easy to understand how they're being applied. Organizations likely won't choose between VMware vs. Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructures based only on how microsegmentation is implemented. If they do, they'll probably weigh Flow's simplicity against NSX's extensive feature set."​​​


    TechTarget: Microsegmentation networking: Nutanix Flow vs. VMware NSX HCI​
    Internship project being presented by Dheeraj Pandey, CEO Nutanix at CIO Leadership Forum 2018.​

    DR Visualization: The concept was presented by Dheeraj Pandey, CEO of, Nutanix to industry leaders and analysts at .NEXT CIO Leadership Forum 2018.​

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