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Happiness rules at Nutanix, but can the company keep it that way?
Denmark is said to be the happiest country in the world, making it an apt location to gather a crowd of upbeat Nutanix customers for the European .NEXT event this week. As Nutanix celebrates its tenth year in business, the company is navigating a push into an application market dictated by software usability. “There are some paths for Nutanix ...
Is new technology a distraction from core business goals?
Future success depends on businesses integrating advanced digital technologies to gain actionable insights from data. The concept of digitalization is based in simplification, but the process of adopting digital technology itself is not simple. The options available are almost infinite, causing one industry expert to advise executives to contract a digital consultant to help make ...
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Nutanix CEO advises Silicon Valley to ‘remove the hubris from innovation’
It has been a decade since Nutanix Inc. was an ambitious storage startup building software for distributed architecture out of a single office in San Jose, California. Those 10 years have seen the company grow from its Silicon Valley roots to a global company with over 5,000 employees in 79 locations across 40 countries. Yet, ...
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Nutanix gets it together for the multicloud future: .NEXT Europe keynote analysis
Ten years from its inception, hyperconverged infrastructure leader Nutanix Inc. is celebrating a year of record gross margins, a stronger product pipeline and an increase in new customers. “Going to full subscription and software model has been increasing their gross margin,” said Stu Miniman, co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. “They’ve done the ...
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Digital learning evangelist lights the way to employee cooperation and productivity
Digital transformation is a boogie man lurking in the office shadows. Employees are intimidated by the thought of reskilling or afraid of being made redundant by a robotic assistant whose artificial intelligence outranks their years of on-the-job experience. Easing the transition from the traditional siloed corporate culture to a cooperative and agile way of working ...
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The biggest software business you’ve never heard of
Think enterprise resource planning software solutions and the first to mind are big-name companies such as Oracle Corp. or SAP SE. Maybe Infor Inc. or Workday Inc. would join the list. But despite its worldwide customer network and 35-year tenure in the market, few outside the industry would name IFS as one of the top ...
Q&A: Dell Boomi helps the American Cancer Society get patients to treatment
Data isn’t just driving business value. The transformational powers of cloud computing can also be applied to charitable work. Properly managed data gives a better understanding of the demographic the charity serves, along with greater insight into what motivates donors and volunteers. Improved communication and funding can increase the reach of charities, enabling them to ...
Q&A: Pure Storage and Splunk SmartStore split storage and compute for cloud-era scalability
Storage and compute have been inseparable since the dawn of the database. Originally linked to reduce latency for transactional databases, the computing world has since moved beyond the demands of transactional processing. With today’s scalable architecture, tightly coupling storage and compute negatively impacts speed and availability — and increases costs. “If you look at the ...
It’s (not) work as normal — digital disruption forces corporate culture to become agile
From the industrial revolution on, traditional methods of business organization have separated areas of specialty into silos: accounting, marketing, production, etc. The model is a top-down structure where executives rule over discrete areas, operating within their own parameters. Just a few years ago, no one would have questioned this method. It was tried, true and ...
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Tech’s women and men need to stand together for true diversity to occur
The fact that women shoulder the burden of encouraging girls to study STEM subjects is in itself an inequality. Inclusion on all levels is required before diversity can become reality. And all genders are responsible for making the workforce a true mirror of society. “I hate when I see a group together and it’s all ...