Nutanix has appointed Vaishali B. Shivshankar as Marketing Director, strengthening its leadership team as the company expands its focus on hybrid multi-cloud and enterprise AI. She will oversee field marketing across India and the SAARC region.
Shivshankar brings significant enterprise technology marketing experience. Before joining Nutanix, she held regional marketing leadership responsibilities at F5 and earlier served as Partner Marketing Leader for India at VMware. She has also headed marketing for India and SAARC at Rackspace Technology.
Her appointment comes as enterprise infrastructure undergoes rapid transformation. Organisations are moving beyond conventional cloud modernisation towards AI-ready hybrid infrastructure, requiring greater flexibility across private data centres, public clouds and increasingly GPU-intensive environments.
Nutanix recently strengthened this strategy by acquiring Ryax Technologies, a France-based AI compute orchestration company. Ryax brings advanced GPU utilisation, intelligent resource optimisation and AI-aware workload scheduling capabilities that Nutanix plans to integrate into Nutanix Kubernetes Platform and Nutanix Enterprise AI.
The acquisition addresses a growing enterprise challenge. Agentic AI requires substantial computing capacity, while GPU shortages and fragmented infrastructure can increase costs. Intelligent scheduling can automatically place workloads on appropriate infrastructure, helping enterprises improve performance, utilisation and AI economics.
For Nutanix, the combination of hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, AI infrastructure and intelligent GPU orchestrationstrengthens its position as enterprises move AI from experimentation into production. Shivshankar’s appointment therefore comes at an important stage, where communicating Nutanix’s evolving AI proposition and strengthening its partner and customer ecosystem across India and SAARC will become increasingly strategic.
