How Nutanix Is Taming Operational Complexity

Chances are, it’s not the infrastructure, singular, your organization is running your workloads on — it’s the infrastructures, plural. Sixty percent of enterprises deploy to multiple IT infrastructures, according to Nutanix, a cloud computing company.

Dealing with multiple deployment environments brings up three big challenges, said Deepak Goel, CTO for cloud native at Nutanix, in this episode of The New Stack Makers.

For starters, there’s the operational complexity and the perennial shortage of skilled engineers to run cloud native systems. Survey after survey has highlighted skills gaps in the IT workforce, Goel told me in this On the Road episode of Makers, recorded at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, in Atlanta.

Many engineers “have been working on the infrastructure side for a long time,” he said. But have “yet to gain expertise on cloud native and Kubernetes in particular.”

Moving legacy workloads from virtual machines (VMs) to cloud native platform, which are geared for a microservices-based architecture, is another challenge.

And the third big challenges? “While this transition is happening, how do you run virtual machine-based workloads alongside with containers, because these are two different platforms, often run in silos,” Goel said.

For an IT sysadmin, he noted, “this becomes really challenging … it’s a different mode of operation,” and one with “a…