Rick Gouin

Day: July 3, 2017

Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: Rollup

· Rick Gouin

Coming out of .NEXT 2017, we saw 3 major strategic announcements from Nutanix, as well as a number of smaller updates.  Some of these had been previously announced, and some were all new.  In this article, I’d like to give a quick overview on some of those smaller announcements or changes that didn’t get the press they may have deserved. First, lets review the big 3: Calm Xi Xtract These 3 updates are the ones you’ll find all over the trade papers if you search on Nutanix.  They are stealing the spotlight, but there are some other noteworthy things that […]

Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: Xtract

· Rick Gouin

The 3rd annual Nutanix .NEXT held in Washington DC at the end of June 2017 brought 3 major strategic announcements to light.  I talk about the first one, Calm, here.  The 2nd one is a hybrid cloud enabler called Xi, which I talk about here. One of the thematic elements I took away from this conference was that Nutanix is betting on hybrid cloud.  They see the 800lb gorilla that is AWS, and know they aren’t positioned to take away that business yet.  They’ve focused on enabling the best hybrid cloud experience possible, all built on Nutanix technology.  Very cool. […]

Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: XI and GCP

· Rick Gouin

In this article, I talked about the first of 3 major strategic announcements to come out of .NEXT 2017.  That article goes over how the calm.io acquisition has been put to use by Nutanix in their Enterprise Cloud Platform.  Now, lets talk about the 2nd major announcement, which is Xi and the partnership with Google Cloud Platform. One of the things I enjoy about being a Nutanix partner is the pace of innovation.  They consistently come out with new ideas that I didn’t even know I needed.  When I think back to the announcements from 2 years ago that they […]