Companies are embracing the flexibility and scale of hybrid architecture, which is why Nutanix Inc. is gearing up to release its cloud cluster solution for hybrid multiclouds.

Nutanix focuses on producing hyperconverged infrastructure, and over the past year, the company has jumped into the artificial intelligence game. Now it’s strengthening its partnership with Google Cloud by launching Nutanix Cloud Clusters, or NC2.

Nutanix’s Michal Lesiczka and Kelly Ciccone discuss their cloud cluster solution with theCUBE.

“Google’s providing a bare metal service and we’re able to take advantage of that, extend our cloud cluster solution to that and provide customers with more choice and which hyperscale they wanna work with,” said Michal Lesiczka (pictured, left), vice president for cloud and databases partner ecosystem at Nutanix.

Lesiczka and Kelly Ciccone (right), head of sales for Silicon Valley Enterprise, Google Cloud, at Google LLC, spoke with theCUBE’s John Furrier and Bob Laliberte at Nutanix .NEXT, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Nutanix’s collaboration with Google Cloud and what is next for both companies. (* Disclosure below.)

The modern cloud cluster solution

Nutanix Cloud Clusters, currently available for preview, is designed to simplify hybrid multicloud infrastructure through a single, software-defined platform. The offering supports companies trying to modernize legacy systems, often based on VMware, by allowing them to easily migrate applications and data across clouds.

“We’re enabling you optionality,” Lesiczka said. “There’s a set of customers that are taking a big bet with Google Cloud. So, there was this huge demand, pent up demand, for making sure that we’re offering that. I think the biggest news is that we’ve enabled your ability to migrate, modernize with Google Cloud.”

Another factor is, unsurprisingly, AI. At this year’s conference, Nutanix announced integration with Nvidia Corp.’s AI tools, and last year, it launched Nutanix Enterprise AI. Nutanix’s cloud offerings can meet the needs of AI adoption, according to Ciccone.

“Customers have data on-prem. they’re using Google for training and they might be using AWS for inferencing,” she said. “This is an opportunity for Nutanix to be that management layer. They have the prowess with the management aspect of it, the simplicity, and then we’ve got the robust infrastructure and of course the AI innovation to enable and accelerate those AI workloads.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Nutanix .NEXT:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Nutanix .NEXT. Neither Nutanix Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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