Nutanix, developer of a converged compute and storage appliance for virtualized data centers, today announced that it has received $13.2 million in Series A funding in a “significantly oversubscribed” round.
Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital.
The funding will be used to help Nutanix establish a strong market presence in North America.
Nutanix is bringing “Google-like” scale-out and converged infrastructure to the world of virtualized data centers. Designed from the ground up for server and desktop virtualization, Nutanix Complete Appliance shrinks the datacenter through its converged architecture, reducing capital costs, power consumption and administration costs.
Nutanix Complete Appliance brings data closer to virtual machines, delivering true convergence through a combination of scalable software and industry-standard hardware components. Purpose-built for virtualization, the Nutanix converged architecture provides cost, performance and manageability benefits that are not possible by simply bundling servers and storage.
Co-founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey was formerly vice president of engineering at Aster Data and played a leadership role in the development of Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata. Co-founder Dr. Mohit Aron, CTO, was lead architect at Aster Data and earlier led the design and development of Google File System (GFS), the software that manages data on Google’s converged compute and storage clusters.
Co-founder and chief products officer Ajeet Singh was previously senior director of product management at Aster Data and played a key role in defining Oracle’s early strategy for cloud computing. In addition to Pandey, Aron and Singh, the Nutanix board of directors includes Ravi Mhatre and Bipul Sinha from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
