The global hyperconverged infrastructure market size is expected to grow from $7.8 billion in 2020 to $27.1 billion by 2025. When it comes to HCI, one of the challenges is building a code base when things rapidly change — flash adoption, storage world, compute architectural changes, software and location with cloud — and making sure that the underlying code doesn’t become defunct. Nutanix Inc. is one of those companies solving this issue head on.

“From the beginning, one thing that we have made sure is that we could always give continuous innovation,” said Manosiz Bhattacharyya (pictured), senior vice president of engineering at Nutanix.

Bhattacharyya spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the .NEXT Digital Experience. They discussed the ways that Nutanix continues to bring HCI solutions into the enterprise. (* Disclosure below.)

Software-defined infrastructure for HCI through Nutanix

Nutanix, a cloud computing software company that sells what it calls hyperconverged infrastructure appliances and software-defined storage, has been actively building software-defined infrastructure on commodity hardware. Because of this, commodity hardware can be anywhere, including on-prem or in the public cloud. 

“The true nature of Nutanix is being a pure software player and treating every hardware uniformly,” Bhattacharyya said. “And whether this is available in the public cloud or it’s available in your own data center, the storage or the hypervisor or the entire infrastructure software that we have doesn’t change.”

When it comes to underlying storage, it was clear to Nutanix that preparing for memory class storage was extremely important, according to Bhattacharyya. One of the first things the company did to prepare its Acropolis (AOS) architecture was to include elements like fine-grained metadata for data locality.

“In the very last year, we released a construct called Autonomous Extent Store, which is not only making data local, but also making sure metadata is local. That gives us the performance that we need to really get the value out of these … high-end devices. And the performance is what our high-end applications are looking for,” Bhattacharyya concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the .NEXT Digital Experience. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the .NEXT Digital Experience. Neither Nutanix Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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