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Nutanix Secures $25 Million In Funding From Khosla Ventures, Others

October 25, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Nutanix, a company that offers a simple compute and storage building block for virtualizing datacenters without the need for network storage, today announced that it has raised $25 million in new funding in a Series B round led by Khosla Ventures (see video here).

Existing investors, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital, are also participating in the round.

“When I was at Sun Microsystems, the focus was on decoupling the client and the server over a physical network. In the 30 years since then, the clock has turned full circle,” said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures. “Virtualization has made it possible to run clients and (storage) servers in the same hardware. Network storage, as we know it, is ready to be radically disrupted. Datacenters will be dramatically faster, simpler and greener with Nutanix.”

Nutanix’s over-subscribed Series B round of funding follows the company’s successful August launch of its flagship product, Nutanix Complete Cluster, a high-performance hardware and software solution that converges compute and storage into a single, compact building block for scaling out a virtualized datacenter.

Founded in 2009 by a team that built scalable systems such as Google File System and enterprise-class systems such as Oracle Database/Exadata, Nutanix is based in San Jose, California.

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Nutanix Raises $13.2 Million In Funding

May 6, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

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.

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