Attending Nutanix .NEXT 2025 was more than just witnessing another tech event—it was a glimpse into the future of enterprise IT.
As the VP of Modern Infrastructure at Arctiq, I’ve worked with leading organizations to modernize their infrastructure strategies and have attended many IT conferences… But this year’s announcements from Nutanix represent a pivotal shift—offering new capabilities that aren’t just technical upgrades, but strategic accelerators for CIOs, CTOs, and IT leaders looking to future-proof their environments.
Here are my four standout innovations from .NEXT 2025 and why they matter to your organization.
This partnership brings together two leaders in enterprise infrastructure: Nutanix’s powerful HCI platform and Pure Storage’s high performance data layer.
The solution will integrate with Pure FlashArray over NVMe/TCP to deliver a customer experience uniquely designed for demanding data workloads, including AI.
The result is a fully integrated solution designed for reliability, scalability, and the kind of performance required by business-critical applications.
Why it matters:
For enterprises running SAP, Oracle, Epic, or similar workloads, this gives you the flexibility of HCI with the performance characteristics of Tier-0 storage… without any compromise. It’s a serious alternative to legacy SANs, especially in environments where uptime and throughput directly impact revenue.
Historically, Nutanix has focused on tightly integrated storage. This shift… supporting external storage through the GA announcement of “NCI Compute” allowing customers to leverage Dell PowerFlex for better scalability and performance. Look out for Cisco and Pure options as well. This marks a major leap in openness and flexibility.
Why it matters:
If your organization has significant investment in existing SAN or NAS infrastructure, you no longer have to rip and replace to modernize. Now, you can extend the Nutanix platform across hybrid storage models while maintaining centralized management and automation. This is especially useful during M&A activity, cloud migrations, or staggered modernization programs.
The public preview of NC2 on Google Cloud represents Nutanix’s continued commitment to multicloud freedom. With NC2, workloads can move seamlessly across on-prem and cloud environments, now including GCP alongside AWS and Azure.
Why it matters:
Multicloud is no longer a future state—it’s the new default. This innovation makes it easier to pursue cloud-first or cloud-smart strategies without refactoring legacy applications. Enterprises can now balance cost, compliance, and performance across environments with greater control and agility. Pair that with Arctiq’s leading Google partnership and you have a winning formula.
AI isn’t a trend… it’s an imperative. Nutanix’s latest Enterprise AI release offers a robust platform for deploying, managing, and scaling AI workloads across private and public environments.
Why it matters:
Most enterprise AI projects stall due to infrastructure complexity. With Nutanix, you get GPU-aware scheduling, data locality optimization, and security… all managed under a unified platform. This enables your data science teams to move faster while keeping infrastructure aligned with enterprise governance.
These innovations aren’t isolated features… they’re signals of where enterprise IT is headed: hybrid by design, AI-enabled by default, and built around flexibility without sacrificing control. Nutanix is positioning itself as the operating system for modern infrastructure, where simplicity and scale go hand in hand.
At Arctiq, we help companies like yours navigate this evolution, ensuring new technologies aren’t just deployed but strategically aligned to business outcomes. If you’re evaluating how these new capabilities can fit into your IT roadmap, now is the time to act.
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