By Simon Sharwood
Publication Date: 2026-08-27 05:21:00
virtualization
Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse
Nutanix is closer to porting its stack to the Arm architecture, spurred by the high price of hardware and a desire to ensure customers can run its wares wherever they want to.
CEO Rajiv Ramaswami today told The Register Nutanix customers are currently acutely aware of hardware costs and availability, issues that are slowing some purchases of its software. Nutanix is trying to avoid such delays by expanding its hardware compatibility list and supporting external storage devices – moves Ramaswami said mean users can migrate away from VMware without needing to replace hardware.
He said Nutanix also continues to optimize the footprint of its stack and pointed to its decision to allow bare metal installations of its Kubernetes Platform as another hardware-minimization effort. The CEO today told The Register Nutanix now sees Arm support as another way to ensure its software platform can run wherever users need it, and believes that adopting the architecture will mean it can run on lower-cost hardware that users won’t balk at buying in the current climate.
That’s an advance on Nutanix’s 2024 position on an Arm port as a worthy future consideration, but not an item on its development to-do list.
AI support is, understandably, higher on that list and yesterday Nutanix delivered an update to its Enterprise AI suite…
