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Publication Date: 2025-05-07 07:00:00
Next Nutanix is moving beyond its hyperconverged roots by creating containerized versions of its data services and more external storage options, in ways that make it a better target for those migrating away from VMware.
The hyperconverged upstart has always had a small dichotomy in its approach, in the form of an insistence that its own software-defined storage was non-negotiable even as it had no opinion about which hypervisor or other infrastructure its customers should use.
That stance softened last year when Nutanix made it possible to use Dell’s PowerFlex storage boxes with its own stack.
At its Next conference in Washington DC today, Nutanix again offered its customers more storage options.
One is the chance to run its data services – replication, data recovery and snapshots – in containers, outside the Nutanix platform and on a container runtime instead of under a hypervisor on its own platform.
The shift reflects Nutanix’s belief that the rise and rise of containers means data is now distributed across more applications, runtimes, and types of infrastructure. Providing data services that can run everywhere but still provide unified management…
