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>> The company Nutanix
was founded as the world was coming out
of the financial crisis in 2009.
Cloud computing was still in its infancy,
but it's shown the way for what was possible
with automation and simplification of infrastructure,
provisioning, and management at scale.
Now, what Nutanix did is it brought Cloud concepts
to data centers and created the market
for hyper converged infrastructure,
a software defined architecture that eliminated stove pipes
in the heavy lifting associated with compute networking
and storage management.
Now, in the first part of the next decade,
Nutanix has actually set the standard for this new world,
building a loyal customer base, reaching a scape philosophy,
and successfully going public in 2016.
Fast forward to 2021 and much has changed.
Cloud is no longer new,
rather it's become a staple of the digital economy,
as we exit the isolation economy,
the cloud is much different today it's expanding on prem
and out to the edge,
new connections are being made
in hybrid and across cloud models,
and as such, connecting and managing infrastructure
across these new clouds to create a faster experience
for users, irrespective of where the data lives
has become a major priority for organizations
they don't want to waste time and money
on making the plumbing work,
but that's easier said than done.
As the market is evolving so is Nutanix
to meet these new customer challenges and opportunities,
and with me ahead of .NEXT,
the major event of the year for your tenants customers
is Monica Kumar,
who is the Senior Vice President of Marketing
and Cloud Go-To-Market for the company.
Monica always great to see you.
Welcome back to The Cube.
>> Thank you so much Dave,
I'm so happy to be here again.
>> Okay. So you had my little narrative upfront.
What's your perspective on the cloud market,
and where your customers are in their journey?
>> Well, as you said, the cloud is a critical enabler
for rapid growth for organizations now.
It's no longer just a, you know, nice to have,
it's become a must have for organizations to survive
and thrive in this digital economy.
In fact, I follow a lot of surveys that are happening
around cloud adoption.
And one of the key trends that's coming out is,
it's no longer just about IT practitioners adopting cloud.
In fact, 78% of CXO are looking to cloud to speed up
transformation of the entire businesses.
80% of business executives are looking to cloud to mitigate
their risks of their companies.
And 87% of the executives view cloud as critical
to achieving their corporate growth goals.
So what we are now realizing is that hybrid multi cloud
is becoming the preferred model,
which means there is no one cloud that, you know,
customers are using the using,
they're right cloud for the right workload.
In fact, according to Gartner Group,
81% of public cloud users are using more than two providers.
So what's happening is increasingly businesses
are relying on multiple public clouds and on premises
to meet the needs and are looking for that flexibility
and that's delivered by different cloud providers.
We've done our own survey
called Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index
we do it every year,
and 86% of respondents in the last survey said
hybrid cloud is the ideal operating model.
So the net net that we are hearing from our customers is
"cloud is not a destination."
It's an operating model.
Customers want the right cloud for the right workload
and the right applications.
>> Okay awesome so the world great setup, thank you.
So the world is moving to multi cloud, I think there's not,
no debate on that.
And that is really the mainstream that's the norm.
Talk about where Nutanix fits into this new world.
>> Absolutely.
So we are at an inflection point,
as organizations are grappling with this complexity now.
Obviously you can imagine,
the more competing environments to use,
this complexity and running and managing those
hybrid solutions across multiple clouds.
What we've done, it just focus singularly on
is making that cloud complexity invisible,
So, our customers can focus on their business outcomes.
We are solving the complexity of
running and managing multiple clouds,
just like we did for infrastructure data centers, you know,
a decade ago when we first started as a company.
Now with the Nutanix platform,
enabling our customers to seamlessly connect
their private and public clouds, simply move applications,
data licenses across any cloud,
optimize the workload placement and costs,
all by leveraging a consistent set of services, tools
and IT processes.
So for us it's really really crucial
that we give customers the choice to pick
the hardware of their choice the cloud of the choice,
the virtual machine they want to deploy,
the containers and data, and help them realize their entire
hybrid multi cloud strategy.
It's all about giving our customers that peace of mind
to deploy and operate the apps and data
across multiple clouds with ease and flexibility.
>> All right, let's talk about .NEXT.
I think my, I'm pretty sure my first .NEXT
was the first one ever
which I think was 2015 was pre IPO.
The focus is obviously evolving, what's the focus this year?
>> Well, .NEXT has evolved to become
the industry's leading hybrid multi cloud conference.
It's almost here, it's taking place next week,
September 20th to 23rd.
And this year's event will bring together
IT and Cloud professionals from around the globe
to explore the latest trends, solutions, best practices
and hybrid multi cloud technology.
Now we're obviously going to, you know,
feature a lot of thought leaders from within the industry
as well as in general,
you know people that impact our lives in a positive manner,
and we're going to really focus on topics around
hybrid multi cloud, hyper converged infrastructure,
private cloud app modernization,
you know, Kubernetes, containers,
how do you figure out which app to deploy where.
So you're going to see a lot of focus on hybrid multi cloud
solutions this year.
We're going to have lots of real world stories, hands on labs,
best practices for practitioners and again as I said,
all the tools that attendees need to go back
and then put to practice some of
the hybrid multi cloud strategies that they will learn
at .NEXT
>> Talk a little bit more, Monica,
about "what's in it for me" for attendees,
what can they expect?
What are they going to be able to take away
from this conference?
>> Well, so as I said,
the conference is both for business leaders
and IT leaders and practitioners,
so for the business leaders, as I said,
they get to hear from the latest industry visionaries around
where the world of cloud is moving to,
what are the latest and greatest innovations
in hybrid multi cloud technologies,
and how can they make their businesses more competitive,
how can they, you know, create more business value
for their organization by using these technologies.
For the IT practitioners, they will go away as I said,
learning from their peers in how they are adopting cloud,
what are some of the myths around cloud computing,
get some information on deployment details,
and the benefits.
Some of the peers are realizing,
since they moved to Nutanix for example, in general,
since they've adopted , you know,
hybrid multi cloud solutions,
they will also be able to connect with the industry peers,
access demo grounds.
In fact, one of the major spotlights at .NEXT will be the
desk five live,
practitioners can get hands on our technology
and really test drive it during the event itself,
and learn how to create a hybrid cloud within an hour,
learn how to deploy a database
with a click of a button for example.
So lots of great goodies there,
and oh by the way,
we have some amazing external speakers as well
besides our own, you know, engineers, executives, and so on.
We have a whole roster of third party speakers too.
>> That's awesome. Now, you know, one of the things too
is one of the ways you're able to reach escape velocity
as a company is you have a strong partner ecosystem,
I presume is going to be a partner network
participating as well?
>> Yes, absolutely.
Thank you for reminding about that.
Partnerships is very, very, are very, very important
in Nutanix, you know, it does take a village,
we have a full day dedicated to our partners
and partner technology solutions,
It's called Partners Day, it's a Monday September 20.
So again, we hope that you all will participate,
but also you'll see partners are embedded
in our September 21st and 22nd agenda and program as well,
which are the main two days of .NEXT.
So partners are in our life and blood,
they're part of our ecosystem.
>> That's great. What's next for Nutanix
as you head into 2022?
>> Well, before I go there,
I do want to focus on a couple more featured speakers
so for those of you who are interested in cybersecurity,
we will have to Theresa Payton,
who is the first female White House CIO
and a leading cybersecurity expert she'll be speaking,
I'm actually interviewing her as well.
We have Rachel Saujani, who's the founder of
"Girls Who Code" and "Marshall Plan for Moms."
We have Gary Vaynerchuk, who's the CEO of VaynerMedia,
who's an author and entrepreneur.
So I do hope that folks will plan to join,
if not for the core hybrid multi cloud content,
but also for these amazing speakers.
And last but not least, hey, if none of this excites you,
then we do have some amazing entertainment.
We have John Taylor of Duran Duran
and "The Electric Fondues Chromeo" also headlining
our day two keynotes
>> Oh fantastic. I love it.
Okay, so...
Go ahead please
>> Oh well, I was going to say, so now let me talk about
so what's next.
Well for us, what's next is really helping customers
realize their full hybrid multi cloud strategy
and empower them to make the right cloud decisions.
So in fact one of the things
you're going to see us launch next week
is also a new brand campaign.
It's called "Cloud On Your Terms."
And you'll see that all over,
plastered all over .NEXT and so on.
We are fully invested in our customer success,
to help them build run and operate anywhere,
to help them easily migrate to public cloud
or stay on premises if they choose to.
And, ultimately, to make cloud complexity invisible
for our customers.
>> You know, cloud your way kind of thing, I love that
and I failed to mention,
one of the first conferences I went to .NEXT
I met some developers, and I was like,
"Whoa! cool",
cause you guys one of the first that really truly
do infrastructure as a code and bring that on prem
and now it's going across clouds.
So September 20, you kick off the Partner Day is that right?
And then the big keynote start the 21st, right?
And go through the 23rd
>> That is correct. Yes!
>> Awesome.
>> Yes, and we have a lot of on demand content as well
around the keynote.
So it's going to be a packed, packed set of agenda and days
and you can choose whatever content you want to attend
and participate in.
>> Excellent, you guys always put on a great program.
So go there register, we'll see you there.
Monica. Always a pleasure. Thanks so much.
>> Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.
>> Alright, and we'll see you at .NEXT.
This is Dave Vellante for "The Cube"
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