Nutanix
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| Traded as | NASDAQ: NTNX |
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| Industry | Distributed Computing and Storage virtualization |
| Founder | Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron, Ajeet Singh |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
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Key people
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Dheeraj Pandey, co-founder and CEO[1] |
| Products | Enterprise Cloud Platform |
| Website | www |
Nutanix is a software company that sells what it calls hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) appliances.[2]
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Products
Nutanix's products provide software-defined IT infrastructure that runs virtualized applications and delivers many of the benefits of public cloud services. Compute, virtualization and storage resources are delivered by scale-out appliances built on commodity x86 servers, such as those from Dell, Lenovo and Cisco. Servers (called nodes) are deployed in a cluster, with each running Nutanix Acropolis software. Nutanix clusters eliminate the need for separate storage arrays, such as SAN and NAS devices as well as separately licensed hypervisors. Overall capacity is increased by adding additional nodes one at a time. Nutanix Prism software provides automated configuration, management and analytics capabilities.
Nutanix's software and appliances can be purchased from Nutanix resellers, as well as from the company’s original equipment manufacturers, Dell and Lenovo.[3]
Technology
Nutanix's software runs as a virtual machine (VM) on industry-standard hypervisors, including VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as Nutanix’s home-grown AHV virtualization technology (based on KVM). Servers running Nutanix's software are clustered together, with interconnection provided an external Ethernet switch. In general, a minimum of three nodes is advised but work has been done on smaller configurations. The Nutanix software converges the local data storage resources on each node to form a distributed data storage fabric that is presented back to the hypervisor using the Network File System (NFS), Server Message Block (SMB3) or iSCSI protocols, depending on the hypervisor deployed. Prism management software runs on the clustered nodes, and does not require a separate server.
In August 2016, Nutanix announced support for running its software running on Cisco Unified Computing System servers.[4]
Nutanix's software is based around technologies such as Zookeeper and Cassandra as well as their own secret sauce.
History
Nutanix was founded in 2009 by Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron and Ajeet Singh.[5] Nutanix is headquartered in San Jose, California and sells its products and services in more than 70 countries.
In early 2013 Aron left Nutanix to start Cohesity, a web-scale platform company designed to consolidate and manage secondary data.[6]
Venture capital firms invested $312.2 million over five rounds of funding. Nutanix reached a $1 billion valuation by 2013, which made it known as a "unicorn company".[7] It raised $140 million in a Series E round of financing in 2014, valuing the company at approximately $2 billion.[8]
Nutanix filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in December 2015, reporting a net loss in its fiscal year ending July 2015 of $126 million.[9][10] It reported about 1800 employees as of April 2016. Updated registration statements were published several more times, including one on August 16, 2016, showing growing losses as well as revenue, along with positive cash flow from operations.[11] Later in August 2016, Nutanix announced it had acquired companies PernixData and Calm.io.[12].[13] Calm.io reported Sequoia Capital as an investor and markets cloud automation and orchestration.[14] Analysts expected Nutanix's public offering would be delayed.[15]
The IPO on September 30, 2016, raised about $230 million.[16]
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