I had the
great privilege of attending the Nutanix Tech Summit for the EMEA Region in
Barcelona a few weeks ago as @TeraSky representative.
For the
first time, Nutanix made the decision to allow a small selection of partners to
join the Tech Summit which is traditionally an internal conference for the SEs
of Nutanix. TeraSky was invited as a leading partner
for Nutanix in Israel
The
Conference was from Monday evening until Thursday afternoon and was amazing.
The Tech
Summit is a very technical based conference where the main goal is to sync
everyone with the new products and features Nutanix is offering today to its
customers and those that they will be offering soon.
Nutanix’s
Product Portfolio over the recent years has grown tremendously, and they have
begun to really emerge as a leading company with a full stack solution and not
“just” a great HCI solution.
During the
conference there were 20 different labs with at least one for each of the
products in Nutanix’s offerings. They were truly amazing labs. The labs gave
you an insight into the capabilities of the products and gave you the ability
to really understand what the product is, why it is needed and most importantly
how it is done.
Being as
happy as I was with the quality of the labs and the benefit that I believe they
offered I had the honor of being the only attendee at any of the Nutanix Tech
Summits this year (America, APAC, EMEA) to successfully complete all 20 labs.
The move
Nutanix made of inviting partners this year I believe was a great and very
beneficial decision for both the Partners and Nutanix. I personally learned an
enormous amount at the conference by hearing and learning first hand from the
Product teams as well as the SMEs and SEs from the region about the different
products. I know that many partners that were at the Summit had the same
feelings. I also had some amazing conversations with SEs from all over the
region who said that having the time with the partners was very beneficial from
there side as well because the view of the field is very different between the
vendor and a partner and they found the conversations very beneficial as it
opened them up to the ideas, suggestions, complaints and praises coming from
another perspective.
During the
Conference There was also the ability to compete in a Hackathon. The Teams that
competed in the hackathon presented their final product on Thursday morning to
the whole conference.
The
different groups had some unique and creative ideas and it was great to see the
creativity of the people at the conference as well as the amazing cooperation
between the partners and the Nutanix employees where in almost all teams there
was a mixture of the two.
The moves
Nutanix is making recently in the products they are offering is quite
extraordinary and I am very impressed with how much they have been able to
accomplish in such a good way and in such a short period of time.
I had the
privilege to really dig deep into Nutanix Calm (Nutanix’s Cloud Management
Platform), Nutanix EPOCH (monitoring tool), Nutanix X-PLAY (event driven
actions within Prism Central) and Nutanix Karbon (Nutanix’s Enterprise ready
Kubernetes solution) which went GA during the conference.
Nutanix
Calm is a truly unique product with a very fresh and unique perspective on how
a CMP should look and feel and I was very impressed with the product and its
large set of capabilities while remaining very simple and elegant. The ease of
learning this product is a truly remarkable thing considering the complexity of
the other solutions in the market today.
Now that I
am back home, I am looking forward to working together with Nutanix on
implementing these amazing products that Nutanix has developed for our
customers. The fresh approach Nutanix brings to the table is an amazing thing
to see in the Tech world today and I personally am very excited to see what is
coming next.
