Nutanix Inc., the hyperconverged infrastructure provider, today unveiled new software services designed to replicate the usability of the public cloud in on-premises data centers.

The additions are rolling out for the Enterprise Cloud OS that powers the company’s systems, which combine compute, storage and network equipment with management software in an integrated chassis. Nutanix also makes the platform available for third-party appliances from partners such as Dell EMC.

The first of the features introduced today is the Acropolis Object Storage Service. As the name implies, the capability lets companies store information as objects, a format that lends itself well to unstructured data such as documents and media content. Nutanix says that Enterprise Cloud OS is capable of safekeeping “billions” of individual items.

This data can be managed via a programming interface modeled after the one in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 object storage service. Presumably, Nutanix is counting on the fact that many developers are already familiar with AWS to ease the learn curve and thus make Acropolis Object Storage Service more accessible.

Complementing Acropolis Object Storage Service is a feature called Acropolis Compute Cloud. According to Nutanix, companies can use the capability to let their developers deploy virtual machines on-demand atop infrastructure powered by Enterprise Cloud OS.

Rounding out the update is the Nutanix App Marketplace. Set to roll out for the company’s Calm suite of management automation services, it’s a portal through which organizations can provide preconfigured applications for their developers. The idea is to eliminate the hassle involved in setting up workloads manually, just as the ready-made application images available from the AWS Marketplace do.

The new services are the latest fruit of an effort by Nutanix to narrow the gap between customers’ on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Previously, the company introduced a standalone version of Enterprise Cloud OS designed to run beyond the firewall. Nutanix has partnered with Google LLC as part of the move to let customers deploy the software on the search giant’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform.

The Nutanix App Marketplace will launch later this year, while the next Acropolis services are set to become available in 2018. Nutanix announced the updates at its .NEXT EU conference this week in Nice, France, which SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE studio is covering live from the show floor. Peter Grimmond, chief technology officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Veritas Technologies LLC, discussed his company’s support of Nutanix’s Acropolis Hypervisor and how customers are using its technologies:

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