Tarkan Maner, Nutanix & Suresh Andani, AMD | AMD Advancing AI 2026

In this interview from AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco, Tarkan Maner, president and chief commercial officer at Nutanix, joins Suresh Andani, corporate vice president of compute and enterprise AI at AMD, to talk with theCUBE's Dave Vellante and John Furrier about the shift from AI pilots to enterprise-scale production deployments. Maner and Andani discuss how the Nutanix-AMD partnership, backed by a $250 million investment, brings enterprise-grade governance, security and lifecycle management to AI workloads spanning CPUs and GPUs. Andani explains why scaling AI beyond pilots requires more than silicon — it demands a software control plane for hybrid, distributed deployments across on-premises, edge and cloud environments. The conversation explores Maner's "TIME" framework — tolerate, invest, migrate, eliminate — which enterprises use to prioritize legacy modernization alongside new agentic AI investments. Maner shares how boards and CFOs, not just CIOs, are now driving decisions around cost control and hybrid infrastructure amid data sovereignty and regulatory pressures. Andani highlights the shift in compute requirements from AI PCs to data centers to cloud, noting how AMD is redesigning CPUs, GPUs and NPUs to support token routing across each tier. The pair also touches on physical AI, citing Bedrock Robotics' work turning existing excavators into autonomous systems as a model for extracting new value from prior infrastructure investments. From forward-deployed engineering teams to enterprises retiring legacy ERP systems in favor of custom-built agents, Maner and Andani outline how Nutanix and AMD are helping organizations move from experimentation to durable, secure AI operations. Find more SiliconANGLE news and analysis https://siliconangle.com/ Follow theCUBE's wall-to-wall event coverage https://siliconangle.com/events/ Learn about the latest theCUBE events https://www.thecube.net/ 00:00 - Intro 00:02 - Transformative Partnerships: Scaling AI for Enterprise Success 02:35 - Transformative AI: Shaping Future Enterprises 05:26 - Case Study: Fortune 100 Company 07:53 - Adaptive Dynamics: Navigating Enterprise and AI in a Geopolitical Landscape 12:39 - Transformative AI: Redefining Interfaces and Integration 17:00 - AI Across Different Layers 20:06 - Operational Challenges and Opportunities 24:02 - Convergence of AI: Innovation and Application in Systems and Robotics 26:31 - Title: Future Collaborations and Conclusions #theCUBE #AMDAdvancingAI #theCUBEresearch #AMD #Nutanix #AI #HybridCloud