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Nutanix told investors it has been improperly using licensed software for years and it is now trying to determine how much it may owe one of its vendors.

The statement has meant that the company could not accurately report expenses for the quarter.

Nutanix CFO Rukmini Sivaraman said his company had hired an outside lawyer to investigate what it may owe the undisclosed software vendor after management learned the software had been misused.

“What we discovered is that certain evaluation software from one of our third-party providers , someone who provides us software, which is intended for evaluation purposes, was instead used for validation, interoperability testing and proof of concepts over a multi-year period,” Sivaraman told investors. Read more…

Cloudy Nutanix has started a referral programme for channel partners offering rewards across a product’s complete lifecycle.

The outfit has refreshed its Elevate Partner Programme to ensure involved partners who were not there when the deal was finally signed are recognised and rewarded.

Nutanix said the changes could work with every partner type and reward those that are involved at different stages of the buying journey, particularly those involved in helping the user develop their strategies before they settle on the final purchase order.

Nutanix sales VP Adam Tarbox said that analysts are fond of talking about how customers engage with at least seven partners across the lifecycle of any project and there are multiple touchpoints. Read more…

Nutanix has released new cloud bundles as part of its channel initiative for the commercial market segment.

The bundles let customers standardise on Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) while offering channel partners streamlined options to integrate with their value propositions and grow their market share.

Nutanix has been making a big thing of cloud computing and Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) technologies.  It plans that when HCI is coupled with intelligent software that replace legacy infrastructure previously consisting of separate servers, storage networks, and storage arrays. Read more…

Nutanix is laying off 270 employees after warnings in May of supply chain disruptions and higher-than-expected turnover.

CEO Rajiv Ramaswami warned that supply chain disruptions late in the third quarter, as well as higher-than-expected attrition among its sales employees, put pressure on revenue upsides experienced during the quarter.

The layoffs represent four percent of its global workforce. The cuts are expected to be completed by the end of October.

“As hard as it is to make decisions that impact employees, we believe this will enable Nutanix to be more efficient and flexible going forward [in the future, Ed.] as we navigate a challenging macroeconomic environment”, the company said. Read more…

Nutanix and HPE widened their partnership to accelerate hybrid cloud and multi-cloud adoption by offering Nutanix Era, multi-database operations and management solution, bundled with HPE ProLiant servers, as a service through HPE GreenLake.

The cloud service lets customers to deploy applications and databases quickly and benefit from the agile, elastic, and pay-per-use capabilities of the cloud while gaining the governance, visibility and compliance of an on-premises environment.

HPE GreenLake Cloud Services, senior vice president and general manager Keith White, said that customers want to simplify database operations and management to move away from IT siloes that can often lead to higher maintenance costs, security risks, and lack of flexibility to deploy and run solutions. Read more…

Nutanix is launching the Elevate Service Provider Programme which it says will spruce up its existing flavour to its worldwide partners.

The company said that the programme empowers service provider partners – including managed and cloud service providers – to build highly differentiated hybrid and multi-cloud

The idea is to encourage service providers to take advantage of  increasingly individualised customer demands while staying profitable

The Nutanix Elevate Service Provider Programme claims to help service providers improve margins and agility by addressing the lock-in and minimum commitment requirements encountered in traditional service provider vendor models and programmes.  Read more…

Serbian energy giant NIS  has chosen the Cloudy Nutanix to simplify IT management and provide a more scalable and agile platform for future developments.

NIS is involved in a diverse range of activities, from oil and gas exploration, refining and distribution to, more recently, the development of electrical and thermal energy from a mix of traditional and renewable sources. However, progressing and managing those businesses in an era of rapid change was putting increasing strains on its legacy infrastructure. These strains limited the company’s ability to cope with day-to-day demand and prevented it from moving the business forward to stay ahead of the competition.

NIS CIO  Dimitry Shevchenko said: “Like others in our sector, we needed to modernise and do so quickly, moving to a more agile software-defined architecture. For us, that meant hyperconverged infrastructure and, with Nutanix as the clear market leader, it was our obvious first choice.” Read more…

Cloudy Nutanix has scored a contract with Coleg Gwent, one of Wales’ largest and top-performing colleges and installed its solution just in time to handle the coronavirus crisis.

The outfit is using its enterprise cloud solution in a bid to transition from local to virtual desktops, using Citrix as the preferred vendor for virtual desktop software.

The cunning plan is to move away from the traditional classroom and adopting a more flexible approach to learning delivery.

The college decided on Nutanix enterprise cloud software, hosting Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. Not only did this combination meet technical requirements but, as an existing customer of both Nutanix and specialist education partner ET Works, the college was confident that it would deliver on the promises made. Read more…