As two days of wall-to-wall coverage from the Nutanix .NEXT Conference 2016 kicked off at the Wynn in Las Vegas, Stu Miniman (@stu) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, began the day by recapping the theme of the morning’s keynote: simplifying infrastructure.

“Scale-out, cloud. Nutanix started this whole meme of hyper-convergence with its customer base and followed on with the converged infrastructure meme, and now you see Nutanix growing like crazy,” stated Vellante. Addressing how the company is expanding its Total Available Market, Vellante noted that Nutanix, Inc. is also evolving into enterprise cloud, which essentially is public cloud on premise.

He also remarked about how the privately owned company, which filed its pre-IPO S-1 filings — providing more transparency — will probably do 600 million dollars in bookings.

Making things invisible to the end user

Miniman began by saying that in the infrastructure space, Nutanix has one of the most exciting things going on, which is to make things invisible to the end user. “They started really with the storage layer; last year they added in the virtualization layer, which is the Acropolis hypervisor … and they are trying to move up to be enterprise cloud, is the message this year,” he remarked.

Miniman talked about the many announcements made during the keynote, such as multi-hypervisors, containers, bare metal to build out infrastructure, and he feels that the company is on a wave of leveraging many different technologies.

During the keynote, the largest applause came from the audience when Nutanix announced that the entire infrastructure could be managed through a single pane of glass. Vellante believes that the audience enthusiasm is genuine.

Miniman said that the company is not trying to be the market leader in the hypervisor space. His impression is that the company is trying to promote ease of use, simplicity and lower cost. Simplifying infrastructure and making it invisible seems to be the company’s goal with all its new products.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the Nutanix .NEXT Conference 2016

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