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Publication Date: 2026-10-15 05:46:00
Let’s not beat around the bush. Hyperconvergence isn’t sexy. It’s boring. But let me explain to our dear SDxCentral readers how Nutanix aims to make it sexy – and yes, that’s a lot of “x’s” to put in one sentence.
At a recent Nutanix keynote, Adam Tarbox, Nutanix VP and GM for EMEA North, kicked off proceedings by talking about some sexy topics: digital sovereignty and AI. According to the VP, Nutanix’s proposition answered the key questions of where AI resides and who’s accountable, while also serving an increase in both portability and speed of release with more AI-infused apps.
The question, Tarbox said, is how to modernize enterprise environments without creating more silos, with the application estate “splitting in two worlds,” as he put it. Modern estates rely on containers and Kubernetes over virtual machine (VM)-centric workloads, and are defined by APIs and automation in driving those frequent software releases. Nutanix aims to “create a bridge” between traditional and modern estates, while also taming token usage and what CTO Manosiz Bhattacharyya referred to as “maniacal” AI agents let loose in the enterprise.
Positioned later in the keynote, Bhattacharyya’s presentation focused on all the bread-and-butter hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) stuff: boxes and hardware and the like. Sitting in the audience for the event, I wondered if this was what the audience really came for. Surely no way an increasingly provincial backwater like the…
