Companies are now focusing on combining technologies such as analytics, intuition, and machine learning to instantly gather and rapidly process massive amounts of data to predict the next steps. The era of the "insight economy" has begun. Realizing this requires stable storage, fast networks, and scalability. This is based on powerful computing, but it is difficult to implement with private data centers because neither their technology nor their architectural design philosophy is suitable for it.

The combination of IBM Power Systems and Nutanix technologies can solve these challenges. The two companies support running the following new workloads on hyper-converged infrastructure through a 'power-based scale-out computing-supported web-scale architecture' that ensures enterprise workload persistence and 'simple installation'.
In addition, the two companies, sharing a philosophy based on open standards, plan to provide the value of software-defined infrastructure to over 2,000 enterprises worldwide.

Stefanie Chiras, Vice President of Power Systems at IBM, stated, “Enterprises are recognizing the requirements for hyper-converged infrastructure and the benefits that can be derived from next-generation data center infrastructure technologies. Through our partnership with Nutanix, we will combine the data and compute technologies provided by IBM POWER Architecture with the one-click simplicity guaranteed by the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to deliver scalable, resilient, high-performance hyper-converged infrastructure solutions to enterprise customers.”