Nutanix Inc. built its brand on compressing and compacting technologies together. It began with hyperconverged infrastructure and has since spun out various software offerings. It continues its mission to integrate and stitch multiple pieces into a single, easy user experience.

Nutanix is designing solutions that include its own product portfolio, as well as product form partners like Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. This philosophy of compressed, simplified design is embodied in the camera on everyone’s smartphone, according to Dheeraj Pandey (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Nutanix. The phone ate the camera and shrunk it down to an application. Nutanix wants to perform the same trick with its product portfolio.

“The most important thing is how they gel well together, how they really integrate well together, because if we don’t integrate these products and we just throw it out as things, as opposed to an experience, customers are like, ‘I can buy things from best-of-breed,'” Pandey said.

Pandey spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and Rebecca Knight (@knightrm), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the .NEXT event in Anaheim, California. They discussed Nutanix’s product-integration and design strategy and its new partnership with HPE (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

HPE takes aim at VMware with neutral Nutanix

Nutanix is taking aim at the data-management market with integrated hyperconverged backup solutions.

There’s also Nutanix’s freshly minted partnership with HPE that answers Dell EMC and VMware Inc.’s powerful collaboration. The latter two companies lead the market in servers and HCI. Nutanix is offering its flagship Enterprise Cloud OS software into HPE’s GreenLake consumption-based product. Also, the companies are building out integrated appliances that combine HPE ProLiant and Apollo servers with Nutanix’s software.

Nutanix also has a partnership with VMware, so this is more a move by HPE to take market share from VMware and Dell EMC than it is Nutanix choosing a side. “I think it’s important to really know that we are in this cooperative world. And every competitor is also a company we cooperate with,” Pandey said. “We run on top of VMware, and more than half our customers still use VMware underneath us.”

Nutanix is committed to remaining flexible in its technology — apps on platforms, platforms on apps, etc. — and its partner ecosystem, Pandey concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the .NEXT 2019 event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the .NEXT conference. Neither Nutanix Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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