Nutanix brings forth an exciting new SAN-less virtual computing platform, converging two tiers of infrastructure down to one. Nutanix integrates storage and compute into one unified appliance that can scale-out from 3 to hundreds of nodes. This provides a simple, elastic and smart datacenter infrastructure in a box to run and grow your virtualized applications effortless. Inspired by SAN-less distributed systems employed by Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter, Nutanix is first to market with an enterprise-friendly, easy to deploy storage and compute cluster that dynamically grows to meet business demands. Simple, Scale-out and automatically optimized for the best user experience. This session shows the challenges of a traditional datacenter architecture and the benefits of the modern hyper converged design for modern virtualization projects like Private Cloud, VDI, Big Data and DR.