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Publication Date: 2025-12-15 22:40:00
Car explained that if they look at the whole picture objectively, what will shine through is an accurate conversation around where different workloads need to reside.
“For the larger customers, just saying, ‘I’m all in on on-prem’ or ‘I’m all in on cloud,’ I don’t think, if you really dig under, that’s going to be the answer.”
Helping customers see the whole picture objectively can then naturally lead into cost optimisation discussions, or financial operations (FinOps).
Organisations still operate under bimodal operations, where everything rolls up to a CIO and a CFO for budgetary approval, but if you start to go a little bit lower, there’s cloud, AI and infrastructure teams, Car noted
“When those three teams aren’t coherent on what they want to do, that’s when we start to see cloud bill shock,” he said. “The cloud team and the AI team are just going up and spinning up everything, and off they go.
“I call it the unknown knowns, because you know you’re going to get charged for IOPS [input/output operations per second] since they’re built differently.
“You also know there will be charges for API [application programming interface] calls, but what that actually means in a dynamic cloud environment, you don’t know.”
Blending NCP and native services, with control from the Nutanix control plane, provides live cost insights into both the native utilisation of services and the Nutanix workloads wherever they’re…
