Google Cloud boss to speak at ... hang on, Nutanix conference?

Nutanix has booked Google Cloud supremo Diane Greene to talk at its .NEXT 2017 conference, leading to speculation that a deal – possibly around hybrid cloud – is being cooked up between the two. Nutanix tells us: ".NEXT showcases how innovations in enterprise cloud and datacenter technologies are transforming the way …

[Anonymous Coward]

This is pure speculation. What does an Hybrid cloud deal mean?

Just because Diane Green is coming to the conference, it does not mean that Google is interested in striking a deal. Its like Theranos stacking its board with bigwigs from politics, academia etc.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I assume there is some reason for Google sending a high ranking exec though. It not like this is just a random Google engineer. It would make sense that Nutanix have some hybrid strategy as right now they are competing against public cloud and probably losing a fair amount and probably assume they will lose a fair amount more often as time goes on. A Google Cloud partnership gives them a way of saying 'put workload that makes sense for private cloud on Nutanix and put workload that makes sense for public cloud on Google'... it will take people a fair number of years before they realize that public cloud makes sense for all workloads.

[Anonymous Coward]

Nutanix is ramping up their PR to ridiculous levels in the past few days, anyone noticed that?

First their stock took a beating, went all the way down to $14 (from a high in the $30ies). Suddenly all those articles and press releases started coming out. I wonder how the quarter earnings are. They are announcing soon, no?

[Anonymous Coward]

Women in Tech

Looks like Nutanix decided they could not promote their own female engineers into leadership positions so they are bringing in outsiders to speak.