Now that this year’s Nutanix .NEXT conference has wrapped up, it’s time to give a recap. .NEXT 2025 hosted:

• 5000+ Attendees from around the world
• 90+ Keynote & Breakout Sessions
• More than 20% Returnees

After acquiring VMware, Broadcom switched its products from perpetual licensing to a subscription-based model, meaning that most current customers will see costs increase and service level changes. As a result, many of their existing customers are considering alternatives to VMware because of how this may or already has impacted their business.

While many companies are modernizing their IT infrastructure by moving to the cloud, their on-premises IT environments tend to be complex, 3-tier infrastructures which create silos that interfere with visibility and overcomplicate management. 

Technology market experts IDC reported that hyperconverged systems have been the main source of growth in the converged systems market, showing marked acceleration in the last quarter of 2020. Technology news site TheNextPlatform attributes the health of the HCI market to its evolution from being used for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to being seen as a platform for modern workloads, including hybrid cloud and containerization.

Digital transformation is a way to future-proof your IT infrastructure and to innovate to stay competitive, but it is also a way to overcome problems that your business faces. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) can play a vital role in data center transformation and problem solving.

Over the last decade, the cloud has gained popularity and acceptance, evolving from an emerging technology that inspired concerns about lack of security, to almost every company’s go-to solution. Now, it’s common for organizations to take a cloud-first approach to technology.

But is the cloud really right for everyone?

Technology news site NextPlatform.com reported that hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has evolved from a way to consolidate data center infrastructure resources to a springboard for hybrid cloud because of its cloud-like capabilities. Organizations are turning to HCI to optimize and simplify operations and automate management processes through a single pane of glass.

The technology news site Data Centre Dynamics reported that the pandemic actually has been good for the data center, making its role in supporting the workplace even more important than before. Focus on the data center has led to renewed efforts to reduce infrastructure energy use and to increase the agility and availability of the data center.

In The Smart CIO’s Guide to Modernizing a Data Center, leader in hyperconverged infrastructure technology (HCI) Nutanix emphasized that new approaches to data center architecture are essential in this time of evolving operation requirements.

BizTech reported that the year-long pandemic has driven companies in many industries to modernize their infrastructures. This move is propelled by the need to transition to a “digital-first enterprise.”