Dan Ciruli
Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix, experienced product leader in cloud-native technologies with prior roles at Google and contributions to OpenAPI, Istio, and gRPC.
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Feb 5, 2025 • 34min
#035 - A Veteran of the Container Wars on the Past, Present, and Future of Cloud Native with Dan Ciruli (Nutanix)
Dan Ciruli, Senior Director of Product Management at Nutanix, shares his tech journey from startups to giants like Google. He highlights the evolution and dominance of Kubernetes, thanks to the CNCF’s pivotal role. Ciruli reveals insights from his experience at D2IQ and Nutanix’s strategic acquisition to enhance container management. He emphasizes the need for seamless integration of VMs and containers, predicting the Kubernetes API will pave the way for flexible application deployment across infrastructures. His views on IT management preferences paint a compelling future for cloud-native technologies.
Dec 26, 2025 • 32min
Containers are easy—moving your legacy system off your VM is not
Dan Ciruli, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix, discusses the intersection of legacy systems and modern technologies. He highlights the relevance of virtual machines in enterprise environments and explores how AI can help modernize old codebases. The conversation dives into why VMs should coexist with Kubernetes, the challenges of networking between them, and the organizational biases driving infrastructure decisions. Dan also shares insights on moving workloads back on-premises and the advantages of Nutanix's integrated platform.
