Nutanix
"Your key databases are still running on VMs, your SAP systems, your enterprise ERP systems, your security products..."
Virtualisation firm turns its first full-year GAAP operating profit, but admits " modest elongation of average sales cycles "
"One of the things in particular I'm looking at right now is a large competitor of yours. It presents a little bit of a risk…"
Meanwhile, Dell PowerFlex support from AHV coming soon and streamlined certification promised for more commodity hardware.
Nutanix CEO sees some cloud repatriation as well as VMware refugees, as rumours of an $8 million > $100 million renewal circulate.
"There is a lot of anxiety about the Broadcom-VMware acquisition around pricing, support and other issues"
On a grey, chilly, wet Chicago morning your correspondent makes a quick exit on South Michigan Avenue to the American Writers Museum to dodge the rain and to be reminded of Scott Fitzgerald’s famous dictum that “there are no second acts in American lives”. The same can be said