Nutanix appoints new A/NZ region lead

Nutanix has appointed Howard Fyffe as managing director of its Australia and New Zealand business. This follows the move of outgoing MD Wayne Neich to a new Asia–Pacific role.

Fyffe has over 25 years of sales, management and data centre experience and will be responsible for all aspects of sales and support across the region.

The announcement comes ahead of the Sydney stage of the Nutanix .NEXT On Tour conference, which will take place on 20 September in Sydney. At this event Fyffe will officially meet with Nutanix customers and partners for the first time as the new face of the A/NZ business.

“IT has transformed from a back-end commodity to a real business enabler in recent years,” said Fyffe. “Nutanix understands this. The company created hyperconverged infrastructure as a true enablement platform and now is driving the development of enterprise cloud.

“Businesses in Australia and New Zealand recognise the benefits enterprise cloud can provide in terms of scalability, security, speed and simplifying the back end to free up IT personnel to add real business value. 451 Research indicated in its 2016 Cloud Computing Report that more than a fifth of organisations worldwide were going against the public cloud wave and moving apps or data back over to private cloud,” he said.

Fyffe joins the company from Cisco, where he was most recently responsible for driving its IoT business across A/NZ. Prior to this, he held a number of senior positions at Cisco in Australia and the US and also worked as director of sales for Topspin, which was acquired by Cisco in 2005.

Since its initial launch in A/NZ three years ago, Nutanix has doubled staff numbers over the past year as a response to significant customer expansion. It now has permanent offices fully established in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Clients include Treasury, National Blood Authority and Hyundai. The company now also runs a technical assistance centre (TAC) in Sydney, which is staffed by a large team of senior engineers that supports the entire Asia–Pacific region.

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