President & Chief Executive Officer (Board Member), Nutanix
Search every verified Rajiv Ramaswami interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote β each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO of Nutanix, delivered the opening keynote at a company event in Chicago on July 7, 2026, where he discussed the company's platform roadmap and the impact of agentic AI. During the keynote, he described hypothetical AI agents for personal tasks such as regulating metabolism, expediting airport security, and managing email. In a conversation with a customer from the casino industry, Ramaswami noted that the customer planned to open a new resort using Nutanix's hypervisor and management tools, and that the customer's CEO was driving AI adoption across guest-facing experiences, personalization, and operational efficiency. Ramaswami also criticized VMware and Broadcom, stating that Broadcom is "forcing you to buy the full stack" and "capturing the maximum amount of profits," and urged customers to consider whether that is where they want to invest. He added that Nutanix aims to help customers "reduce your dependence" on such vendors and "meet your current and future needs with a modern platform." On the company's Q3 2026 earnings call on May 26, 2026, Ramaswami said Nutanix sees demand driven by businesses modernizing IT, adopting hybrid cloud models, and deploying cloud-native applications including AI. He noted that AMD recently invested up to $250 million in Nutanix and that the companies are working on joint solutions with AMD GPUs. Regarding hardware supply, Ramaswami stated that lead times for appliance vendors range from a few weeks to six months depending on configuration and vendor, and that Nutanix expects hardware prices to remain elevated into fiscal year 2027. He also attributed a higher average contract duration in Q3 to a mix of larger, longer-duration transactions across land, expand, and renewals.
“AMD recently invested in us, up to two hundred and fifty million dollars, and we are together working on bringing joint solutions with AMD GPUs in the market.”
“First, they're forcing you to buy the full stack, whether you need it or not. And the next step is going to be to force you to adopt the full stack. And that's going to require you to have new hardware, change your operating model quite a bit, and it's going to be a big lift for you all. And I would urge you all to thi...”
“We see this demand driven by businesses looking to modernize their IT footprints, adopt hybrid cloud operating models and deploy cloud-native applications including AI.”
“We do expect hardware prices to remain elevated going into FY27.”
“So our business has shifted very decisively over the last several years, and deliberately so. So maybe I'll take a step back and say where we were, where we are now, and then we can talk about the future, which a lot of this .NEXT year was about the future. I mean, I know John, you've known us for many years, tracked u...”
“Tomorrow very quickly is every new modern application being built, is containerized, it is orchestrated with Kubernetes, but more than everything else, tomorrow is about the world of AI and how it's going to impact how businesses operate. And if you don't make use of it, you're going to be left behind from a competitiv...”
“A few years ago there was nothing in India for us, very little in fact. I remember when I graduated the job I got was Indian Telephone Industries. I don't think they exist anymore. They made phones, and it wasn't particularly interesting for us, so most of us went to the US. Most of us went to grad school there. And of...”
“First thing is always have a learning mindset. Always be learning, okay? Learning never stops. It doesn't stop after your degree, doesn't stop after you work for a few years, it continues forever. I continue to learn every day. And whether it's technical skill sets, it may be presentation skills, it might be how to dea...”
“The vast majority of enterprises, customers are going to be consuming models and building inferencing applications. They're not in the business of creating these models or training these models. That's a handful of companies that have the capital and investment to do that.”
“The next phase in this journey is almost all the applications they run are going to have some form of AI embedded, and that's the next 5 to 10 years and that's just at the beginning.”
“The vast majority of enterprises, customers are going to be consuming models and building inferencing applications. They're not in the business of creating these models or training these models. That's a handful of companies that have the capital and investment to do that, and we know who they are. But here we have thi...”
“So today we have 28,000 customers, that includes a thousand of the top 2000 globals in the world. So we have the big customers. We have the small customers. We are across every vertical. And all these customers are going through a journey. They all have these bulk of their applications today, virtual machine applicatio...”
“We have been making this transition from a best-of-breed HCI pioneer in the industry to more of a platform company that's investing for the future.”
“Broadcom bought VMware. Great company, great technology, but now it's a different business model when it comes to how you approach the market. That's creating a lot of disruption and that's creating a lot of openings for us to go get customers that would not have taken us up at the same rate. We've been adding here, la...”
“In very, very simple terms we want to be, and we aspire to be the leading platform for organizations and companies around the world to run all their applications and manage their data anywhere.”
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