Versent launches NC2 Service on AWS

by Lilia Guan, as seen in arnet.com.au 27 Oct 2025

Making Nutanix hybrid cloud accessible to the mid-market.

Versent has released its NC2 Service on AWS built specifically for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) looking to modernise their cloud infrastructure.

With mid-tier businesses facing the same pressures to modernise as enterprise but without the same budgets, many are still 20–30 servers, maybe up to 100 virtual machines, on ageing hardware, said Versent head of product Loretta Cain during the Nutanix. Next on Tour Sydney on 23 October.

“This is happening as data centre contracts are expiring, co-location costs are rising, and hardware replacement becomes increasingly expensive,” she said. “They don’t have cloud architects on staff or teams of DevOps engineers.”

These businesses are made up of one or two people trying to keep the lights on, with the in-house expertise to manage hybrid environments being non-existent for most of the organisation.

“VMware licensing has become uncertain—or, in many cases, completely unaffordable, especially with Broadcom’s price increases,” she said. “Yet moving entirely to the cloud feels like a leap too far.

“They don’t want to rebuild or refactor every app. There’s simply no clear exit path,” Cain explained during the Versent NC2 Service on AWS: Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Without the Enterprise Price presentation at the Nutanix event.

This is what led Versent to partner and design NC2 Services with AWS – a multi-tenant Versent platform running natively on AWS bare metal.

It is specifically designed to deliver enterprise-grade, hypercloud capabilities to every customer, said Versent principal solutions architect Stephen Jones.

“What you see here is the same Nutanix architecture found in licensed NC2 cluster — Prism Central for management and automation, the Acropolis Hypervisor, flow networking — all running on AWS global infrastructure,” he explained. “The key innovation here is the economics of shared infrastructure.

“Instead of each customer needing their own dedicated cluster, we securely pool compute and storage across multiple tenants.”

According to Jones, each tenant is provided its own isolated portion of the environment, including private resource blocks, access to the management plane, and secure connectivity back to its on-premises environment.

“All Nutanix licensing is managed on behalf of the customer,” Jones explained. “Tenants can utilise one or multiple resource blocks, depending on their needs.

“Everything inside the green layer is fully managed by Versent, including the underlying AWS infrastructure, the Nutanix software stack, monitoring, and all lifecycle operations.

“Each customer manages their own workloads with full access to the Nutanix software features. This guarantees strict boundaries and consistent operational oversight.”

Versent has also designed a four-step journey “that takes days — not the six to twelve months” to help customers migrate their workloads into the Versent NC2 Service on AWS, said Cain.

The four-step process starts with Discovery, then Replication, Cutover, and finally Operation.

“For new workloads, it’s as simple as creating them directly in Prism Central,” Jones explained. “For existing workloads, this is where Nutanix Move comes into play.

“It’s a no-cost migration tool specifically designed to rehost virtual machines from VMware or Hyper-V directly into Nutanix with minimal disruption and no refactoring required.”

Versent NC2 Service on AWS will be fully managed by the service provider, monitoring from its Australian team.

“The Nutanix cloud cluster licensing is included, with direct access to the NC2 platform for Windows or Linux,” added Cain.