The New Stack Podcast How Nutanix Is Taming Operational Complexity
Dec 18, 2025
Deepak Goel, Nutanix Chief Technology Officer, explores the complexities of modern cloud environments. He highlights the struggle companies face in managing legacy systems while adopting microservices and Kubernetes. Goel discusses how platform engineering can streamline operations and the vital role of internal developer platforms in reducing friction. He unveils Nutanix's latest advancements in Data Services for Kubernetes, emphasizing enhanced security and data protection. Additionally, he shares insights on integrating AI to simplify coding and improve infrastructure efficiency.
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Three Core Enterprise Cloud Challenges
- Enterprises face three intertwined challenges: operational complexity, migrating VMs to cloud-native microservices, and running VMs alongside containers.
- These challenges are amplified by varied infrastructures and steep Kubernetes skill gaps within existing ops teams.
Create Platform Teams And Internal Platforms
- Build or hire platform engineering teams to bridge infrastructure and Kubernetes expertise.
- Adopt internal developer platforms to centralize observability, monitoring, and security and reduce individual operational burden.
AI Lowers The Operational Learning Curve
- AI and LLMs are beginning to reduce operational complexity by assisting coding, configuration, and observability.
- Agentic AI can translate plain-English intents into commands and help remediate system anomalies automatically.