Nutanix is rapidly expanding its platform to embrace not just hyperconverged infrastructure, but all aspects of cloud, on-premise and edge infrastructure to truly enable its mantra of ‘run anything anywhere’.
Kathy Gibson attended Nutanix .Next in Washington DC to learn about the company’s latest technology updates.
Better integration, management for modernised infrastructure
The rapid pace at which technology advances and changes has never been as apparent as the last year.
Amid change and disruption, organisations have to focus on modernising their infrastructure, building applications once and running them anywhere, and enabling the move to agentic AI.
Rajiv Ramaswami, president and CEO of Nutanix, says the company is delivering solutions to help customers achieve these goals.
Read the full story here
Run apps anywhere with extended AOS
In a multi-cloud, hybrid cloud world, organisations shouldn’t be constrained as to what cloud they can use to run their workloads.
Rajiv Ramaswami, president and CEO of Nutanix, points out that his company has been working with the public cloud providers for some years now, first partnering with AWS in 2020 and Azure in 2022.
“And this year we are announcing Nutanix availability on Google Cloud, with general availability later in 2025,” he announced.
Read the full story here
Channel key to Nutanix success
As it continues to expand its solution set, Nutanix has reaffirmed its commitment to the channel as its route to market.
This is the word from Dave Gwyn, senior vice-president: worldwide channels, who says Nutanix differs in this respect from many other enterprise technology vendors that erode their partners’ opportunities by going direct.
He says Nutanix aims to nurture its partner channel by focusing in four areas: profitability for partners; ensuring the right products for the market; a long-term commitment that enables strategic decision-making; and trust.
Read the full story here
Enterprises move quickly on agentic AI
Technology has always been a fast-moving industry, but the rate at which artificial intelligence (AI) is developing and being adopted puts most other innovations in the shade.
While AI itself was many years in the making, generative AI (GenAI) put the technology on the map, and dramatic advances are now seeing the rapid emergence of agentic AI as well.
“And agentic AI is finding use cases very quickly,” says Rajiv Ramaswami, president and CEO of Nutanix. “We are helping to make it a reality, with customers deploying it in a safe and simple manner.”
Read the full story here
Simplified operations strike a chord with African businesses
Skills shortages and an often-patchy infrastructure are among the challenges that African CIOs have to contend with – and it’s why they are increasingly turning to partners who can provide less complex solutions, says Franz Esser, strategic business manager: enterprise cloud solutions at ET Works.
“For our African customers, the skills gap is a big thing,” Esser says. “Nutanix has helped us to offer solutions that are simple to use, so they are adopted and accepted quickly.”
Read the full story here
The evolution of a tech company
Nutanix was set up 16 years ago as a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) company focused on managing storage, compute, and virtualisation across data centres.
It has come a long way since then, today providing the platform for data centre and hybrid multi-cloud deployments – including software for virtualisation, Kubernetes, database-as-a-service, software-defined networking, security, as well as software-defined storage for file, object, and block storage.
Read the full story here
Nutanix puts its faith in its own AI
Use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) are rolling out quickly across many organisations – and Nutanix has been quick off the mark in introducing its own AI-based solutions.
Manosiz Bhattacharyya, chief technology officer of Nutanix, explains that 2024 was the year that generative AI (GenAI) took off, with enterprises harnessing the technology for numerous solutions – and 2025 is quickly becoming the year of agentic AI.
With Nutanix Enterprise AI, Nutanix keeps AI costs predictable, and provides the platform for customers to accelerate their AI implementations.
Read the full story here