I had a great time at Nutanix HQ at the first-ever NTC Tech Connect. We had a packed 2 days with 12ish sessions, so this will take a few blogs to cover the whole day, but here are the sessions we had the privilege of being a part of:
On Day 1, we had an unplanned conversation with Cameron Stockwell (Director of Product Management, LCM & Foundation), who gave a great talk about the future of LCM in Prism Central and Foundation Central. Then, Rajiv Ramaswami answered questions about the company’s current state and future plans, with Q&A from a tough crowd and great information about the future of VDI, AHV and PowerFlex, Support and Scale, NKE, and more. After that, we were part of 9 sessions from all corners of the Nutanix portfolio, including NCM, MCI, NKP, AHV, AOS, and more.
- Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) by Ramachandran Varadharajan (Product Management), Pranav Yogesh Gupta (Product Engineering), and Vijaay Doraiswamy (Product Engineering)
- Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) by Deepak Goel
- What’s New & Next with AOS and NKD by Oscar Wahlberg (Sr. Director of Product Management) and Ramya Prabhakar (Principal Product Manager)
- Nutanix Compute and All Things AHV! by Jennifer Rowland (Director of Product Management, AHV) and Prema Kolli (Sr. Manager of Engineering)
- Nutanix Social Media Overview by Hillary Hill (Social Media Manager)
- DBaaS in Hybrid Multicloud: Freedom to Run Databases Across On-Premises and Cloud by Ahmad Elayat (Sr. Director of Product Management, Database Services)
- Nutanix Central Deep Dive By Srinath G S (Director of Engineering)
- NDA Seesion by People (we will get more into this later)
On Day 2, the info dump continued! We heard about FLOW, FILES, Objects, and more.
- Flow Next-Gen – The Genesis, Evolution & Adoption by Swaminathan Sankar (Sr. Director of Engineering, FLOW) and Aniket Daptari (Director of Product Management, FLOW)
- Nutanix Files for Hybrid Multicloud, AI/ML, and Cyber Resilience by Ramesh VelurEunni (Sr. Director of Engineering, NUS) & Marc Waldrop (Principal Product Manager, NUS)
- Nutanix Objects for Hybrid Multi-Cloud by Mayur Sadavarte (Member of Technical Staff) and Gowtham Alluri (Technical Director)
It was a great time with a lot of information, and it was great to meet a lot of NTCs and Nutanix Staff. It was a long couple of days, but it was well worth it. As I mentioned, there was way too much to put in just one post, so stay tuned for deeper posts about some of these topics.
