Why Nutanix Is Becoming A Platform Company And Its AI Roadmap: CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

Why Nutanix Is Becoming A Platform Company And Its AI Roadmap: CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

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Publication Date: 2025-08-04 07:00:00

Nutanix’s CEO said there are several key pillars to his company’s evolution in transforming into a platform company, including expanding its partner and vendor ecosystems, innovation stack and routes to market.


Nutanix’s CEO said there are several key pillars to his company’s evolution in transforming into a platform company, including expanding its partner and vendor ecosystems, innovation stack and routes to market.

Rajiv Ramaswami is transforming his best-of-breed hyperconverged company into a platform provider aimed at becoming customers’ “de facto platform” where they can run their applications and manage their data regardless of where it resides.

Nutanix’s CEO said there are several key pillars to his company’s evolution in transforming into a platform company, including expanding its partner and vendor ecosystems, innovation stack and routes to market. In an interview with CRN, Ramaswami takes a deep dive into Nutanix’s transformation.

What does becoming a platform company mean for Nutanix?

First of all, for customers, it means that a platform has many use cases. It becomes much more central for customers in terms of relying on Nutanix to run all their mission-critical applications.

So being a platform provider means now they can run all their applications to serve multiple use cases, not…