Sunil Potti, Nutanix, recorded live on theCUBE at .NEXT Conference EU 2017 with host Stu Miniman. #NEXTconf #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2018/01/08/fueled-new-features-nutanix-drives-deeper-multicloud-country-nextconf/ Fueled by new features, Nutanix drives deeper into multicloud country It may have lost the market lead in hyperconverged infrastructure to Dell EMC, but Nutanix Inc. could make up for it in new terrain. In its refreshed branding, the HC in HCI might as well stand for hybrid cloud. The company is betting this will attract more customers, pushing further into multicloud management with its just-released Acropolis Operating System 5.5. Can the new features together with its partner ecosystem deliver a private cloud experience to rival the public cloud? “True private clouds haven’t been built yet,” said Sunil Potti (pictured), chief product officer at Nutanix. What passes for private cloud now does not allow applications to travel seamlessly from the on-premises data center to the public cloud, he added. To achieve this hybridization, they must be standardized, commoditized and then harmonized with public clouds like Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google Cloud Platform, according to Potti. A friction-free on-ramp to public clouds accessible from the comfort of a company’s home-base data center may persuade many that private hybrid cloud is the way to go. “If you can bottle up the AWS or GCP experience and funnel it inside the data center, there will be a ton of workloads that stay inside,” he stated. Potti explained how Nutanix’s evolving product line attempts to do just that during last year’s interview at the Nutanix .NEXT EU event in Nice, France. He spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. (* Disclosure below.)