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Publication Date: 2026-08-28 16:20:00
Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami tells CRN how the company has expanded beyond hyperconverged infrastructure into hybrid cloud, AI inferencing, external storage and partner-led services opportunities to build a platform that provides customers and partners unequaled infrastructure flexibility and choice.
Anyone who thinks of Nutanix strictly as a developer of hyperconverged infrastructure should have a discussion with Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami.
Nutanix has actually evolved from its HCI roots into a cloud software infrastructure platform for virtual machines, containers, AI applications, public clouds and external storage, Ramaswami told CRN in an exclusive conversation and as part of a short press conference after the company’s fiscal 2027 financial report.
Ramaswami told CRN the company’s core mission is letting customers run any app and manage data anywhere, from on-premises to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and GPU-focused neoclouds.
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“We offer customers a lot of flexibility and choice in a single platform,” he said. “They can run their VMs [virtual machines] or containers equally well. They can run on-prem or in the public cloud equally well. Licensing is flexible. You buy a license, you can use…
