Insights

Reduction is hard. Replacement is harder. The business case is the key and technology risk management is non-negotiable.

Observations from attending Nutanix .NEXT 2026 in Chicago. Evolutionary improvements and solid expansion of the Nutanix ecosystem are key takeaways.

Migrate from VMware...or don't. Either way, incorporate on-premises infrastructure into your 2026 plans. You can tap into bigger budgets and accelerate reduction of legacy.

Virtified's MacBook might be good enough. Stanford researchers dropped a research paper in mid-November that challenges the cloud-centric delivery model of AI inference due to the following factors. Here's my bottom line: The "Intelligence Per Watt" framework shows that appropriate AI models running on consumer devices are becoming viable for the majority of everyday queries.

Don't reinvent the wheel. Don't use containers and Kubernetes for stateful workloads unless you have solid business justification.