How the Smartest Companies Build Infrastructure That Wins

Most companies don’t realize it yet, but the way they built their technology foundations is quietly becoming a liability. Cloud costs are rising. Platforms change underneath you. AI is reshaping infrastructure from hardware to data to governance. And the strategies that once felt “safe” are now the ones creating the most risk. In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt sits down with Mano Bhattacharya, CTO of Nutanix, to unpack what’s really happening inside enterprise technology right now. This isn’t a conversation about chasing the newest tools or betting on a single future. It’s about why adaptability has become the most important design principle in modern tech. Mano explains why many organizations are rethinking long-held assumptions about virtualization, cloud, and containers, and why the smartest teams are building infrastructure that gives them options over the next three to five years. They explore how AI changes the entire stack, not just applications, why data has become the real bottleneck, and why moving fast without a coherent plan can be more dangerous than moving slowly. Chapters: 00:00 - The VMware Exodus Wave is Coming 03:34 - VMware Broadcom Acquisition: What Changed and Why It Matters 05:56 - Three Migration Paths: Stay, Move to Cloud, or Modernize 09:59 - Why Containers on VMs Make Sense for Most Enterprises 15:40 - The Five Stages of VMware Migration Grief 21:20 - VMware Admin to Nutanix Admin: Closing the Skills Gap 24:14 - The Cloud-in-a-Box Philosophy: From Boxes to Software 32:30 - Opening Up the Platform: Pure Storage and Third-Party Integrations 40:54 - AI Infrastructure: The End-to-End Challenge 48:01 - Enterprise AI Strategy: Use Cases, Economics, and Governance 56:44 - What's Next: Building the Invisible Platform for AI -- This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to. That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo. --- IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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This episode was published on Feb 19, 2026.

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