The Importance of Data Center Innovation and Evolution

Earlier this week, my wife and I introduced my 10 year old daughter to the old school, classic movie Ghostbusters! Any child of the 80's, like myself, remembers this movie well. While watching the movie for the first time in well over 25 years, I was instantly floored from the borderline comical graphics! My immediate next thought was, "wow...there have been amazing innovations in movie graphics over the years that I have taken for granted". What if Hollywood movie-makers would have stopped innovating graphics in the 80's? We as consumers wou
ld have missed out on graphical movie marvels such as Avatar, The Avengers Series, and Lord of the Rings! This revelation brought me to think about my work with the Data Center. Can you imagine if Data Center innovators would have stopped at the Punch Card, Mainframe, or even now with Traditional 3-Tier Architecture? Lucky for all of us, the Founders of Nutanix have come to the rescue!

Many of you who know me know that I have poured my heart and soul into Information Technology and more specifically, the Data Center, for the past 15 years. About 18 months ago I was introduced to Nutanix, a truly innovative Data Center technology. The more I researched and studied the technology, the more I found that Nutanix was at the heart of Data Center innovation and evolution. For these reasons, I decided to join Nutanix and it has been a fantastic first month! If you are not familiar with Nutanix or the term Hyperconverged Data Centers, let's spend a moment to level set. Hyperconverged infrastructure natively integrates compute and storage into a single x86-based server deployed in scale-out clusters. It reduces power and space, and dramatically eliminates storage complexity. Now with Nutanix, gone are the days of nonlinear scale for ALL Virtualized workloads in the Data Center. Traditional infrastructure deployments that currently take weeks and months, now takes just hours on Nutanix. Whether you are a fan of change and new technologies, or you prefer traditional architectures, do yourself one favor......take just two-minutes of your time and watch this Nutanix In 2 Minutes video. After all, imagine if Hollywood would have stopped listening to new and improved ideas in the 80's!