Acquisitions are a common thing in our industry, sometimes your company eats others, sometimes you get eaten. When this happens, there is an opportunity to merge the best of both operations practices.

Early in Nutanix history, they bought a small company called Calm.io. Calm brought with it strong DevOps practices that has been infused into the Nutanix culture and transformed the way products are brought to market. We are not sure if the unicorn ate calm or if the unicorn was calmly devoured.

Learn how to identify which best practices should be brought into the fold, and how to manage that change for a successful transition to a DevOps focused organization.

Michael is a Technical Marketing Engineer for Nutanix, based out of Durham, NC. His responsibilities include creating technical content and speaking to customers about Nutanix Calm, and Nutanix Cloud Native. He has a strong passion for learning new technologies, and figuring out how they can be automated.

In previous roles Michael has worked as a developer, systems administrator, and systems reliability engineer, giving him a unique view on the challenges faced by IT, and a strong belief in how they can be solved through distributed systems and automation. Michael studied Computer Science and Industrial Engineering at the University of Michigan.