Many enterprises now run workloads across multiple IT infrastructures rather than a single environment. According to Nutanix, about 60% of organizations deploy this way, creating significant operational challenges. In an episode of The New Stack Makers, Deepak Goel, CTO for cloud native at Nutanix, outlined three major issues: operational complexity combined with a shortage of cloud native skills, the difficulty of migrating legacy VM-based workloads to microservices-oriented platforms, and the challenge of running virtual machines and containers side by side, often in silos.
Many enterprises now run workloads across multiple IT infrastructures rather than a single environment. According to Nutanix, about 60% of organizations deploy this way, creating significant operational challenges. In an episode ofThe New Stack Makers, Deepak Goel, CTO for cloud native at Nutanix, outlined three major issues: operational complexity combined with a shortage of cloud native skills, the difficulty of migrating legacy VM-based workloads to microservices-oriented platforms, and the challenge of running virtual machines and containers side by side, often in silos.
To address these problems, organizations are adopting platform engineering, where specialized teams abstract infrastructure complexity and provide developers with standardized “golden paths” to deployment. Internal developer platforms and IDEs also help by handling observability, security, and infrastructure concerns. Nutanix contributes through its hyperconverged platform, which integrates compute and storage to support both VMs and containers. At KubeCon Atlanta, Nutanix announced NDK 2.0, adding advanced data protection, fault-tolerant replication, and enhanced security, including a partnership with Canonical to deliver a hardened operating system for Kubernetes environments.
Learn more from The New Stack about operational complexity in cloud native environments:
Q&A: Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami on the Cloud Native Enterprise
Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy
Platform Engineering on the Brink: Breakthrough or Bust?
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