Enterprise IT operations are entering a new era of streamlined IT, where simplicity and efficiency take precedence over complexity. That same philosophy is now shaping how technology vendors develop and deliver new capabilities to meet evolving business needs.

Dell Technologies Inc. and Nutanix Inc. are at the forefront of this shift, rewriting the traditional playbook with solutions designed to produce powerful outcomes—without overwhelming customers in technical detail.

Dell’s Anthony Cinelli and Nutanix’s Lee Caswell talk with theCUBE about how their partnership delivers streamlined IT infrastructure.

“The idea that you give choice, that’s what a platform is about — and that you’re moving towards server-based, software-defined architectures,” said Lee Caswell (pictured, right), senior vice president of product and solutions marketing at Nutanix. “We’ve been talking about that for years. Now, we have the opportunity to make it real, to use the power of server-based as an underlying hardware architecture. Now, going forward, the ecosystem for Nutanix is exploding.”

Caswell and Anthony Cinelli (left), senior director for global PowerFlex sales at Dell Technologies, 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 the Dell-Nutanix alliance’s focus on solving real problems with modular, scalable and easy-to-manage infrastructure. (* Disclosure below.)

Delivering choice and scale with streamlined IT solutions

In today’s software-defined infrastructure era, customer choice drives the architecture. Nutanix’s expanding ecosystem, now hosting over 85 partners, reflects this shift. Dell’s PowerFlex, the most recent outcome from the partnership with Nutanix, exemplifies the kind of open, scalable, software-defined platform today’s customers demand, according to Cinelli.

“Nutanix had some fabulous foresight to do some things in the hypervisor world that introduced simplicity of operations and automation at scale on a very proven hypervisor platform,” he said. “The ability to partner that now with PowerFlex allows us to unlock a tremendous amount of capability in a part of the market that didn’t have access to that before.”

Both companies have enabled a solution that brings automation and simplicity at scale to a traditionally locked-in space. Customers can now pivot hypervisors without infrastructure overhauls, thanks to seamless integration and strong engineering behind the scenes, Cinelli added.

“Customers have been leaning into the idea of wanting choice more than ever in parts of the stack where they maybe haven’t thought about choice before,” he said. “The reality is that part of the stack today is the hypervisor. Credit to Nutanix and Dell for saying, ‘Hey, how can we maybe work together to bring some of our capabilities together to just help meet the market where it is?’”

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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