Ravi Mhatre, founder and managing director of Lightspeed Venture Partners, talked to theCUBE during Nutanix .NEXT 2015 about the future of enterprise platform computing and how Nutanix has the potential to become the next multibillion-dollar company to emerge from the Lightspeed core enterprise investment sphere.

Mhatre sees fundamental changes occurring in the current data center architecture, yet traditional vendors still support the last generation of three-tier applications, opening the opportunity for a new company to rise to the forefront. He believes that the key to success for the current technology upgrade cycle is the ability to take complex ideas and make them simple.

“When you get to production environments for the typical mid- or large-size enterprise, there has to be some vendor or set of vendors that basically orchestrates and brings these pieces of technology together where the user doesn’t have to worry about what is going on under the hood,” he said. “There is no other way for mainstream America, or for the world for that matter, to digest these technologies.”

Nutanix bridges the divide between old three-tier and new open-source Cloud-based systems

Comparing Nutranix to Apple for its ability to make extremely complicated technology accessible to all users, Mahre said, “The thing to keep an eye on with Nutanix is that with some incredibly complex engineering under the covers, they really are looking to offer a platform to enterprises which allows them to have a single view and a single substrate and have workloads that run in either place.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Nutanix .NEXT 2015.