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Western Union shifts infrastructure from VMware to Nutanix. Western Union has migrated its core infrastructure from VMware to Nutanix, framing the move as a long-term partnership rather than a routine vendor swap as part of its digital transformation. Renascence Newsdesk What happened. Western Union has moved its infrastructure from VMware to Nutanix, according to reporting by Diginomica. The switch, overseen by the company's technology leadership including Brandon Shaw, is framed as a long-term partnership rather than a like-for-like vendor swap, and comes as the 170-year-old money transfer business continues to digitise its core operations. The move follows a broader pattern in enterprise IT, where organisations running VMware environments have been reassessing their virtualisation and hybrid-cloud strategies since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware reshaped licensing and support terms across the industry. For Western Union, the shift to Nutanix is presented as a deliberate bet on flexibility, giving the company more room to adapt its infrastructure as its digital transformation programme evolves. Why it matters. This is fundamentally a digital transformation story: it shows a large, established financial services operator treating infrastructure modernisation as a strategic decision rather than a routine technical refresh. Choosing a new long-term infrastructure partner signals that Western Union expects its technology foundation to need to flex further - supporting new services, faster deployment cycles, or evolving compliance and data requirements - as it continues moving from a legacy, branch-heavy money transfer model toward a more digitally native one. For technology and operations leaders elsewhere, the case illustrates how infrastructure choices are increasingly bound up with vendor relationship strategy, not just cost or performance. Framing a platform migration as a "partnership" rather than a procurement exercise suggests Western Union is prioritising ongoing collaboration and adaptability over simply swapping one system for another - a distinction that matters when the underlying business itself is still in the middle of digitising. The Renascence take. Infrastructure migrations rarely make headlines on their own merits; when they do, it's usually because the story being told is about resilience and adaptability, not servers. Western Union's move is a reminder that "digital transformation" for a decades-old service business is as much about the plumbing as the customer-facing app. The real signal here isn't VMware versus Nutanix - it's that Western Union is choosing flexibility as a design principle for its technology stack, at a moment when its core service is being reshaped by digital-first competitors. Legacy institutions that treat infrastructure decisions as strategic partnerships, rather than one-off procurement, put themselves in a better position to respond quickly when customer expectations or regulatory demands shift. The operators who get this right won't just have modern infrastructure; they'll have the organisational muscle to keep changing it. This briefing was written by the Renascence newsdesk, synthesising reporting from the outlets below. Follow the links for the original coverage. Questions Renascence get on this topic. According to reporting by Diginomica, Western Union switched to Nutanix as part of a broader digital transformation effort, treating the change as a strategic, long-term infrastructure partnership rather than a like-for-like technical swap. More in Digital Transformation Stay ahead of CX Get the signal, not the noise. The stories shaping customer experience - plus the Journal and Experience Loom - in your inbox.

Siliconops.ai launches sovereign cloud platform for Indian enterprises. Summarize with: New Delhi, 18 August (APAC Media): Siliconops.ai has announced the launch of siliconcloud.in, a sovereign cloud platform designed for India's regulated enterprises. This marks a significant step towards strengthening India's digital independence and data sovereignty. Built in partnership with Nutanix and delivered and governed from data centres located in India, siliconcloud.in targets sectors where data residency, regulatory compliance, and business continuity are critical. The platform is designed for enterprises across banking and financial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, government, and manufacturing. It offers enterprise-grade compute, backup and disaster recovery, and managed cloud services, with a roadmap towards relevant compliance and industry certifications. As Indian enterprises accelerate the adoption of cloud technologies and artificial intelligence, siliconcloud.in seeks to provide a secure foundation for organisations looking to modernise their IT infrastructure without compromising control over sensitive data. By offering an in-country cloud environment under Indian jurisdiction, the platform aims to enhance visibility, governance, and operational resilience for regulated enterprises. The launch also marks a new chapter for Siliconops.ai, which has built a nearly four-decade-long presence in India's technology landscape. Summarize with:

Who did what, when, and how: introducing Auditing in Nutanix Database Service. August 19, 2026 9:00 am | 6 min Databases hold an organization's most sensitive data - and in regulated industries, every action taken on database infrastructure needs to be accounted for. Security teams need to answer questions like: Who provisioned that database? Who deleted that snapshot? When was that user's role changed - and by whom? With Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.11, answering those questions is now built in. Nutanix, Inc. is excited to announce the general availability of Auditing in NDB - a native capability that captures a structured audit trail of user actions across your database fleet and delivers it into the security and compliance workflows you already use. Why audit trails are non-negotiable. Compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and DORA mandate detailed audit trails of user and system activity. For enterprises in financial services, healthcare, and government, this isn't optional - it's a gating requirement for production deployments. Until now, organizations that needed this visibility had to work around the gap: piecing together operation histories from different sources, manually reconciling logs during audits, and accepting blind spots during security investigations. That approach is time-consuming, error-prone, and increases audit risk. What's new: native Auditing in NDB. NDB Auditing records user-initiated action performed through the NDB Console, API, or CLI - capturing who did what, when, from where, and with what outcome. NDB Auditing focuses on control-plane activity - every action taken to manage your databases through NDB. Each audit record includes: * User identity - username and unique user ID * Action details - the operation performed and the entity it targeted (databases, clones, snapshots, profiles, users, roles, and more) * Source information - the client IP where the request originated * Outcome - whether the operation succeeded or failed * Timestamps - when the action occurred Coverage spans the full breadth of NDB operations: database lifecycle actions (provision, clone, patch, delete), snapshot and Time Machine operations, profile management, user and access management, and configuration changes - including changes to the auditing configuration itself. Seamless integration with Prism Central and your SIEM. NDB Auditing is delivered through deep integration with Nutanix Prism Central, giving you a consistent audit experience across your Nutanix environment: * Centralized visibility - NDB audit logs flow into Prism Central's Audit Explorer, where administrators can view, search, and filter them alongside audit events from other Nutanix services. Each NDB entry is clearly tagged with the originating NDB instance name, making it easy to filter logs in environments with multiple NDB deployments. * SIEM forwarding - Using Prism Central's syslog integration, audit logs can be forwarded to your existing SIEM and log management platforms - such as Splunk, IBM QRadar, and Datadog - for centralized monitoring, correlation, long-term retention, and compliance reporting. * One configuration, all services - If you've already configured syslog forwarding in Prism Central, NDB audit logs ride the same pipeline. No new agents, no custom scripts, no parallel infrastructure. Long-term retention is governed downstream: Prism Central retains audit logs per its retention settings, and your SIEM or log management platform applies your organization's own retention policies - giving you comprehensive control over how long audit records are kept for compliance purposes. PC Audit Explorer filtered to Entity Affected: NDB, showing database lifecycle actions such as "User admin requested to provision a new database" and "User admin requested to create snapshot for time machine" Designed to minimize disruption. Auditing is only valuable if it's reliable - and invisible to your operations. NDB Auditing was engineered with both in mind: * Designed for minimal impact on API response times. Audit capture is fully asynchronous - user operations never wait on audit processing. * Built for reliability. Audit events are held in a persistent queue within NDB that survives restarts. If Prism Central is temporarily unreachable, events are retained and retried automatically with backoff. * Helps protect sensitive data Fields such as passwords, API keys, and tokens are sanitized before audit records are stored or forwarded. * Access is controlled. Auditing configuration is protected by a dedicated privilege, granted to super admins by default and assignable to custom roles - so you can delegate audit administration without handing over full admin rights. Getting started. Enabling auditing takes just a few steps: * Navigate to Settings | Audits in the NDB console * Select a registered Prism Central (pc.2024.3 or later) as the destination for audit logs - NDB automatically shows the syslog servers already configured in that Prism Central, so you can confirm where your logs will end up before you turn anything on * Click Enable That's it. From that point on, every user action in NDB is captured and delivered to Prism Central, where it's immediately visible in PC's Audit Explorer. [The Audits page in NDB - selecting a registered Prism Central automatically surfaces its configured syslog servers, so you can confirm where logs will be forwarded before enabling auditing.] To forward logs to your SIEM: NDB doesn't require a separate syslog setup. As shown above, the Audits page displays the syslog servers already configured in your selected Prism Central - if Prism Central is forwarding to your SIEM or log management platform, NDB audit events ride that same pipeline automatically. To add or change syslog servers, use the Manage Syslog Servers in Prism Central link - a one-time setup that applies across all Nutanix services, not just NDB. Why it matters. For security teams, NDB Auditing accelerates incident investigations with a clear, queryable record of administrative activity. For compliance officers, it turns audit preparation from a manual log-hunting exercise into a standard SIEM query. This capability was shaped directly by feedback from enterprise customers in regulated industries - and with this release, NDB provides the tools to support customer efforts to meet these requirements. * Review the NDB documentation for detailed configuration guidance and the audit log field reference for parsing NDB events in your SIEM * Contact your Nutanix account team to see NDB Auditing in action Nutanix Database Service simplifies database management across hybrid multicloud environments, supporting Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB. Learn more at nutanix.com/ndb. (C) 2026 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. Nutanix, the Nutanix logo and all Nutanix product and service names mentioned are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nutanix, Inc. in the United States and other countries. 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