Nutanix

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Nutanix, Inc.
Company type Public
Founded2009;15 years ago (2009)
Founders
Headquarters
San Jose, California
,
U.S.
Key people
Rajiv Ramaswami (president & CEO)
Products
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$1,863 million (2023)
Increase Negative.svg −US$207 million (2023)
Increase Negative.svg −US$255 million (2023)
Total assets Increase2.svgUS$2,527 million (2023)
Total equity Increase Negative.svg −US$707 million (2023)
Number of employees
6,450 (2023)
Website nutanix.com
Footnotes /references
Financials as of July 31,2023. [1]

Nutanix, Inc. is an American cloud computing company that sells software for datacenters and hybrid multi-cloud deployments. This includes software for virtualization, Kubernetes, database-as-a-service, software-defined networking, security, as well as software-defined storage for file, object, and block storage. [2]

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History

Nutanix was founded on September 23, 2009, by Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron and Ajeet Singh. In early 2013 Aron left Nutanix to start Cohesity, a privately held computer data storage company. [3]

Venture capital firms invested $312.2 million over five rounds of funding in Nutanix. The company reached a $1 billion valuation by 2013, which made it known as a "unicorn startup". [4] It raised $140 million in a Series E round of financing in 2014, valuing the company at approximately $2 billion. [5] Nutanix's backers included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Blumberg Capital. [6]

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. [7] In August 2016, Nutanix announced it had acquired PernixData. [8]

The IPO on September 30, 2016, raised about $230 million after selling 14.87 million shares at a price of $16. [9] [10] This was the biggest VC-backed IPO of 2016 in the U.S. [11] Analysts expected Nutanix's public offering would be delayed. [12]

In May 2017, Nutanix partnered with IBM to create a series of datacenter hardware appliances using IBM Power Systems for business apps. [13]

In March 2018, Nutanix announced the acquisition of Minjar, based in Bangalore [14] and Netsil, [15] a San Francisco-based cloud application monitoring startup. Later the same year, Nutanix acquired the DaaS startup Frame. [16]

On June 1, 2019, Nutanix appointed Brian Stevens to its board of directors. [17] In March 2020, Sohaib Abbasi joined the company's board of directors. [18]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nutanix announced a furlough impacting about 1,500 employees in April 2020. [19] In June 2020, Nutanix added Virginia Gambale to its board of directors. [20] In December, 2020, Pandey was replaced as Chief Executive by Rajiv Ramaswami, who had been the Chief Operating Officer at VMware. [21] VMware filed a lawsuit, alleging a conflict of interest, but dropped the legal fight a year later. [22]

In 2021, the company transitioned from making hardware appliances to focusing on subscription software. [23] [24]

In 2022, MinIO alleged that Nutanix had been violating MinIO's free software license for the past three years, with good faith negotiations over the matter breaking down and Nutanix' license being revoked as a consequence. [25]

Acquisitions

DateCompanyDescriptionReferences
August 2016PernixDataSoftware for virtualizing server-side flash memory and random-access memory. [26]
August 2016Calm.ioDevOps automation platform [27]
March 2018NetsilCloud application monitoring startup [28]
March 2018MinjarThe maker of Botmetric, a service for public clouds. [29]
August 2018MainFrame2 Inc.Cloud-based Windows desktop and application delivery [30]

Operations

Nutanix combines storage, computing, and virtualization. The company's software product families include Acropolis, Prism, Era, Frame, and Files. [31] [32] [33] [34] In 2015, Nutanix was reported to have built a Linux KVM based hypervisor, called AHV (Acropolis HyperVisor) in order to make managing computer infrastructure easier. [35]

Nutanix marketed its products as "hyper-converged infrastructure". [36] In 2020, the company shifted to a subscription business model. [37]

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