https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/10/17/nutanix-for-sale-and-the-only-buyer-might-be-a-big-cloud/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:07:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/10/17/nutanix-for-sale-and-the-only-buyer-might-be-a-big-cloud/#comment-211274 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:07:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141372#comment-211274 Amazing article with great information to everyone!

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/10/17/nutanix-for-sale-and-the-only-buyer-might-be-a-big-cloud/#comment-199468 Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:52:49 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141372#comment-199468 Private equity is drowning in undeployed cash which is what has driven deal values so high. That has not changed. And rather than the cloud guys, think about tech companies that sell to large enterprises. Oracle for example. Put Nutanix’ decent product in the hands of Oracle’s sales team and Oracle can instantly claim to be in the cloud game in a big way.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/10/17/nutanix-for-sale-and-the-only-buyer-might-be-a-big-cloud/#comment-199449 Tue, 18 Oct 2022 05:35:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141372#comment-199449 I don’t know where the product is now, having gotten out of the physical appliance business and pushing their own AHV hypervisor, but in the 3yrs I was a customer (2016-19), it was a decent product with good support but was really fragile, resource inefficient, and pretty expensive. It doesn’t surprise me at all that their customer numbers aren’t what some would expect. They were a first-mover in the hyperconverged space, but these days are they really unique enough to be a good takeover target?

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/10/17/nutanix-for-sale-and-the-only-buyer-might-be-a-big-cloud/#comment-199448 Tue, 18 Oct 2022 04:43:48 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141372#comment-199448 Nutanix isn’t growing because HCI just does not make sense. HCI provide for scaling compute and storage incrementally. But for a large enterprise or cloud provider that is not necessary and SMB should just go the the cloud where the advantages are numerous.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/10/17/nutanix-for-sale-and-the-only-buyer-might-be-a-big-cloud/#comment-199436 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 23:50:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141372#comment-199436 ARM shops (maybe Ampere; maybe HPE …) might benefit from being able to offer a hyperconverged (integrated) software/infrastructure solution such as this (on top of their hardware). I don’t know if Nutanix works on ARM though … Real-world successes of Apple’s M1/M2 and Fujistsu’s A64FX suggest that ARM has reached practical useability, but availability of enterprise software may still be lagging (hence the great opportunity, especially with Altras, Mystiques, Graces, and the likes, soon to come online hardware-wise).

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