Nutanix, evolving from a hardware startup to a comprehensive software company, faced significant data challenges with scattered data across MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and cloud storage, creating silos and impacting analytics. They used Dremio’s data lakehouse platform as a unified “Data as a Service” solution, built on Kubernetes and integrated with Nutanix Object Storage for data sovereignty. Dremio’s Apache Iceberg integration enabled auto-schema evolution and optimized query performance, improving complex hierarchical query speeds from minutes to milliseconds on 20+ million records. This eliminated bottlenecks on production databases, enabled real-time dashboard refreshes, democratized cross-team data access, and supported ad-hoc analysis.

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