A blush is fading as tech companies admitted their businesses were flourishing amid a disastrous pandemic. Why deny it, if technology has prevented the damage from being greater? Other interviewees have commented on it in this space and Jorge Vázquez, director of Nutanix for Spain and Portugal, confirms it this week: “There is no doubt that the pandemic has acted as an accelerator for the digital migration of organizations; We have experienced it live with the Social Security Computer Management (GISS), which overnight had to equip thousands of civil servants with virtual desktops to continue working from their homes. The usual provider communicated that it would take four months to develop a project that was finally entrusted to Nutanix: in a week we did a proof of concept and in a few days GISS put our software into production”.

Stringing together stories like this, Vázquez describes the business model of a company she joined in early 2022. Born in California, she is a world leader in a market she pioneered, known in the industry as hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). Synthetically: Virtualizes and merges compute and storage into a single system, eliminating the hassle of existing silos while optimizing performance.

Over time, Nutanix moved away from hardware to focus on providing software platforms that run on third-party servers. From the beginning it has been present in corporate data centers, before evolving towards a hybrid model with which, says Vázquez, “we have anticipated a need that is clear today: according to studies, up to 80% of companies Medium and large companies have contracted cloud services with at least three providers (…) which does not mean that they do without their data centers”.

There is the key. Nutanix software works equally well in a data center as it does in a private cloud, and is part of the offerings of the big three cloud service providers.” Without denying its origins – in fact, HCI represents the majority of its subscription revenue – Nutanix has increased its focus on managing workloads that move between one environment and another.

“We manage both in parallel –he comments–, so we like to talk about extended data centers. We are able to distribute a load and associate it dynamically, these are real examples, to facilitate data recovery if necessary or to provide a solution to temporary campaigns that require added capacity”.

In Spain, Vázquez sees an acute need to manage critical loads. “In the financial sector, they ask us above all for virtual desktops or convergence to optimize resources. Meanwhile, in the public sector, we see an awakening of services that did not exist and that require support in distributed, synchronized and secure infrastructures”.

The conversation turns to another very suggestive use case. Nutanix supplies the military emergency unit (EMU) with the software for the mobile data centers that are deployed wherever the EMU is called (recently, the earthquake in Turkey). Among other references that he is authorized to name, Vázquez highlights the Sescam hospitals (Health Service of Castilla La Mancha) and the logistics company MRW. In Catalonia, he has Grupo Godó and several municipalities as clients, including Girona, which has replaced its previous infrastructure with Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud solution, supported by HPE hardware. In addition to the Mediolanum and Credit Andorrà banks.