Nutanix takes another swipe at VMware with sovereign cloud push

Nutanix is taking a pop at VMware – again – as it unwraps features that it says allow customers to run distributed sovereign clouds.

"It's actually not too hard to create a sovereign cloud, if you just block off all access," claimed Lee Caswell, senior veep of product and solutions marketing at Nutanix.

He added "as at least one of our competitors" presumes, "you can live with just one virtual private cloud." But he argued "there's a tailwind for distributing data and applications more in the future than we've even seen to date."

That means having the ability to flex sovereignty across endpoints, and "to be able to set security policies locally and propagate them globally."

Nutanix told us its Cloud Platform now gives "orchestrated lifecycle management of multiple dark-site environments, along with on-premises deployment options for governance and control planes."

So the company is rolling out on-prem support ...