and storage virtualization founder dheeraj pandey mohit aron ajeet singh headquarters san jose california united states key people dheeraj pandey co founder and ceo 1 products enterprise cloud platform website www.nutanix.com nutanix is a software company that sells what it calls hyper converged infrastructure hci appliances . 2 contents 1 products 2 technology 3 history 4 references products edit the nutanix 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 get 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 software and appliances can be purchased from nutanix resellers as well as from the company s original equipment manufacturers dell and lenovo . 3 technology edit nutanix software runs as a virtual machine vm on industry standard hypervisors including vmware vsphere and microsoft hyper v as well as nutanix s built in ahv virtualization technology based on kernel based virtual machine . servers running nutanix software are clustered together with interconnection provided an external ethernet switch . 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 history edit 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 references edit alex konrad january 14 2014 . nutanix is tech s newest unicorn raising massive 101m round at 1b valuation . forbes . retrieved august 29 2016 . pash chris march 4 2014 . business insider . retrieved september 11 2016 . mellor chris 2014 05 24 . dell inks oem deal with nutanix to build mutant server storage networking beasts . the register . retrieved 2014 08 22 . talbot chris august 18 2016 . computer dealer news . nutanix expands third party support to cisco ucs . retrieved september 11 2016 . will dheeraj pandey s nutanix be the next vmware of the data center . forbes . october 26 2013 . retrieved august 24 2016 . bob brown june 17 2015 . google infused storage startup cohesity reveals itself . retrieved september 6 2016 . gage deborah january 14 2014 . the wall street journal . nutanix joins the 1 billion valuation club as it takes on tech giants . retrieved september 10 2016 via the wall street journal . miller ron 27 august 2014 . nutanix lands 140m on 2b valuation ipo could be next . tech crunch . retrieved 1 september 2014 . form s 1 registration statement . us securities and exchange commission . december 22 2015 . retrieved august 29 2016 . peter cohan august 29 2016 . will nutanix kill 2016 s tech ipo market . forbes . retrieved august 29 2016 . ammendment to form s 1 registration statement . us securities and exchange commission . august 16 2016 . retrieved august 29 2016 . sunil potti august 29 2016 . shared ambition . nutanix blog . retrieved august 29 2016 . cromwell shubarth august 28 2016 . nutanix scoops up pair of companies . silicon valley business journal . retrieved august 29 2016 . about us . calm.io . archived from the original on march 20 2016 . retrieved august 29 2016 . bruno giovanni august 30 2016 . the street . cnbc s pisani forecasts possible fall ipos . retrieved september 10 2016 via the street . ari levy september 30 2016 . nutanix aims to crack open the tech ipo window . cnbc . retrieved september 30 2016 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nutanix & oldid 743226236 categories companies established in 2009cloud storagecompanies listed on nasdaq navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial 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