Nutanix won’t give AI free rein: infrastructure remains a human endeavor

Nutanix won’t give AI free rein: infrastructure remains a human endeavor

The management of IT environments could be fully automated, but Nutanix isn’t buying into that. Instead, the company is focused on facilitating AI workloads and orchestration wherever possible. Humans remain in the driver’s seat, and surprisingly little changes when it comes to the fundamental tasks of IT infrastructure administrators.

At .NEXT 2026, wishful thinking about AI is hard to find. We’ve actually grown accustomed to vendors making bold promises when it comes to this technology. But, as Dan Ciruli, VP and GM of Cloud Native at Nutanix, points out: fundamentally, the work of Nutanix users isn’t changing. However: “It’s important that people no longer feel intimidated when they hear the word ‘container.’”

Dual-native

AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE run virtual machines for Kubernetes nodes by default. This offers simpler management, easier migrations, and better isolation per user than without a hypervisor. Nevertheless,…