https://ryanorban.com/categories/software-defined/Recent content in Software-Defined on Ryan OrbanHugoen-usme@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban)me@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban)Ryan OrbanFri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://ryanorban.com/notes/nutanix-small-is-beautiful/Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000me@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban)https://ryanorban.com/notes/nutanix-small-is-beautiful/<p><img src="https://ryanorban.com/images/notes/nutanix-small-is-beautiful.png" alt="Small is Beautiful — Nutanix" class="note-hero-img" loading="lazy" /> </p> <h3 id="summary" class="scroll-mt-8 group"> Summary <a href="#summary" class="no-underline hidden opacity-50 hover:opacity-100 !text-inherit group-hover:inline-block" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this heading" tabindex="-1"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" class="lucide lucide-link w-4 h-4 block" viewBox="0 0 24 24" > <path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71" /> <path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71" /> </svg> </a> </h3> <p>This Nutanix blog post from October 2012 lays out the company&rsquo;s core architectural argument: smaller, converged appliances built on commodity x86 hardware would displace the massive monolithic SAN and NAS arrays that dominated enterprise storage. The post was retweeted by Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, one of Nutanix&rsquo;s key investors — a signal that this wasn&rsquo;t just marketing copy but a thesis the venture world was aligned behind.</p>