Nutanix has appointed Shree Balachandran to the newly created position of Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) Cloud Economist.
The industry veteran will work closely with the local Nutanix leadership and sales team, as well as the partner community, to help organisations achieve greater value in their cloud environments.
Balachandran is based in Melbourne and brings more than 25 years of strategy, sales and operations experience from leading technology companies such as HPE and Oracle.
He said cloud economics is front of mind as companies retreat from ‘all-in’ strategies and cloud costs including ingress and egress continue to soar.
“Many companies in Australia and New Zealand that said a few years ago, ‘we’re putting it all in public cloud’, hit a crossroads at about 15% of their data – where going any further is either impossible or prohibitively expensive,” said Balachandran.
“This has crystalised the idea of hybrid multicloud strategies as the way forward, but many are still unsure of how to get there, what data and applications should sit where and for how long, and where they should focus their investments. Nutanix is building the blueprint for how they can do this and I’m looking forward to helping the company educate the market and execute on its vision.”
Balachandran’s appointment comes as Australian companies are expected to spend $19.9 billion, and New Zealand companies $3 billion, on cloud services this year alone. It also follows Microsoft, which partners with Nutanix on its Clusters (NC2) hybrid cloud platform, announcing it would invest $5 billion to expand its hyperscale cloud and AI infrastructure in Australia.
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