From May 7th to 9th, 2025, I was invited as a Nutanix Technology Champion to the Nutanix .NEXT conference in Washington, DC.

On the second day of the event, we had a luncheon planned with:

• Rajiv Ramaswami, President & CEO of Nutanix
• Thomas Cornely, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Nutanix
• Jason Longpre, Vice President of Worldwide Support at Nutanix

This luncheon was an opportunity to interact with them and ask questions directly, but not only that…

An Almost Surprise Ceremony

Angelo Luciani, the Nutanix Technology Champion program manager, had warned us that he was preparing awards to be presented to some of us at .NEXT, without giving us any further details.

Once lunch was over, he took the stage and launched the ceremony, which would recognize three program members for their involvement. The awards were as follows:

• Nutanix Community Excellence Award, recognizing involvement on the Nutanix forums
• Nutanix NTC Storyteller Award, recognizing involvement on the blog and social media
• Nutanix User Group Champion Award, recognizing involvement in the NUG

Nutanix NTC Storyteller: Meaningful Recognition

When I started blogging, my goal was simple: to share. My tests, my struggles, my discoveries, my tech favorites. I had no ambitions or specific roadmap, just the desire to share in my own way.

The blog now has over 110 articles, each written in French and fully translated into English. It’s a colossal and long-term undertaking, requiring hours of research, testing, brainstorming, and more, culminating in simple posts or entire guides.

And there are moments along the way when all this behind-the-scenes work, all these words aligned together, end up resonating beyond the screen.

Today, I have the immense pleasure (and a certain emotion, I admit) of sharing with you the achievement of the “Nutanix NTC Storyteller” trophy.

Being recognized as a “Storyteller” by the Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC) program isn’t just a trophy that will adorn my shelf; it’s recognition of my ongoing commitment to making technology more readable, accessible, and understandable.

For me, this trophy is:

• Recognition of my commitment to the technical community
• A strong signal that quality, authentic, and consistent content matters more than quantity
• A spotlight on the importance of the role of communication in our profession
• But above all, it provides additional motivation to continue creating, sharing, and connecting ideas

Thank you to everyone who reads, comments, shares, and challenges me (you’ll recognize yourselves).

Thank you to Nutanix and especially Angelo Luciani, without whom none of this would have been possible.

Thank you to the NTC community, which has provided me with so much inspiration, connections, and learning, and especially to my two “partners in crime”: Jeroen and Maroane.

This trophy isn’t an end, but a new starting point. It pushes me to go further, to explore new formats (including a YouTube channel), and to continue talking about infrastructure and hyperconvergence with the same passion and energy.