Nutanix
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| Industry | storage virtualization |
|---|---|
| Founder | Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron, Ajeet Singh |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, USA |
Number of locations | North America, Australia, Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan, and Latin America. |
Key people | Dheeraj Pandey, CEO.[1] Sudheesh Nair, WW Sr VP Sales. Rajiv Mirani, VP Engineering. Duston Williams, CFO |
| Products | Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform |
Number of employees | 1000+ |
| Website |
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Nutanix is an American enterprise virtualization and storage company.[2]
Products
The Nutanix product consists of the "Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform" which delivers enterprise compute and storage through the deployment of commodity computing servers (called nodes) which each run a standard hypervisor and the Nutanix Operating System (NOS). Each server contains x86-64 processors, memory, solid-state drives and traditional hard drives, and when added into a cluster aggregates storage resources into a single storage pool. Capacity is added by adding a node to the computing cluster.
Nutanix's product can be purchased from Nutanix, Lenovo or Dell.[3]
Technology
Nutanix nodes run an industry standard hypervisor, such as ESXi, Hyper-V or KVM. On this hypervisor the Nutanix Controller VM (CVM) is deployed as a virtual machine. The CVM will service all the I/O for the hypervisor and its associated virtual machines. When clustered together, Nutanix nodes form a distributed computing platform called the "Nutanix Distributed Filesystem" (NDFS). This is presented back to the hypervisor as NFS or SMB3 depending on the hypervisor deployed.
History
Nutanix was founded in 2009 by Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron and Ajeet Singh. Nutanix is headquartered in San Jose, California and has opened sales offices throughout North America, Australia, Europe, Asia Pacific, Japan, and Latin America.
Funding and Valuation
Nutanix is backed by venture capital firms, who have invested $312.2 million over five rounds of funding. Nutanix raised $140 million in a Series E round of financing in 2014, valuing the company at approximately $2 billion.[4] It reached the $1 billion valuation in four years from its launch.[1]
References
- 1 2 Konrad, Alex (14 January 2014). "Nutanix Is Tech’s Newest Unicorn, Raising Massive $101M Round At $1B Valuation". Forbes. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ↑ Pash, Chris (4 March 2014). "Here’s Why Billion Dollar Startup Nutanix Is Happy To Give Away All Its Secrets". Business Insider (Australia). Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ↑ Mellor, Chris (2014-05-24). "Dell inks OEM deal with Nutanix to build mutant server, storage, networking beasts". The Register. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
- ↑ Miller, Ron (27 August 2014). "Nutanix Lands $140M On $2B+ Valuation, IPO Could Be Next". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 1 September 2014.