Compute and Virtualization

Nutanix Branches Out: Disaggregated Storage with Dell and Pure, Part 1

May 9, 2025 Judson McKratz Compute and Virtualization, Storage

A year ago, at Nutanix’s 2024 .NEXT user conference, the Nutanix team announced they were working with Dell on bringing disaggregated storage to their platform. This past week, at .NEXT 2025, came the formal announcement of a similar partnership with Pure. I’m going to switch up my general article order and push the technical elements to the end of this blog – frankly the technical aspects are surprisingly straightforward. Instead, I’m going to start with some industry notes, opinion, and current caveats. The three of which should help you understand why this is happening, the impact, and guidance through some[…]

Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix – What it means for you

October 6, 2023 Judson McKratz Compute and Virtualization

An alternate title for this blog was “Cisco divorces wife for friends-with-benefits relationship,” or some such. Unfortunately nothing I can come up with is as absurd as the spoonful of words that is Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix. For the sake of simplicity I’m just going to refer to this solution stack as Nutanix on Cisco. For the unaware, Cisco came out of the blue and announced they’re killing their hyperconverged (HCI) solution, HyperFlex, in favor of just reselling industry leader Nutanix. How this affects HyperFlex customers really depends on where said customer is with adoption and product lifecycle. If[…]